Category: theology
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Your personal soldier
I was in a very large house, at least 3rd or 4th floor, reatively dark, roomy environment. My position included some military responsibility, but no high degree of that, and the house was something like a military base or headquarter. There was a woman, perhaps end of 20, brown hair, nice and normal appearance, with […]
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Oh we of decadent faith!
What I call “decadent faith” is, in my perception, an ubiquituous symptom of us Christians in advanced civilizations, it aggregates most of our spiritual illness symptoms. So let’s look at these symptoms, and at causes and solutions. But first, let me define my use of terms: Decadent faith is an aggregate term for specific attitudes, […]
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Identifying Christians
This post should have never been written, as it cares too much about theological concepts, and too little about trusting Jesus. But now that it is there I won’t throw it away. But also, I won’t polish it to be outwardly perfect, instead publish it as a sort of thought collection. Perhaps somebody might get […]
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Oh ye of little faith!
Only a little faith … Christianity is made of mega church growing, worship concerts, sects and theological talk. Which can be reduced to human efforts, enthusiasm, cantankerousness and idling compensation. Such human stuff has ousted the divine by sheer ubiquity. And now: Where I find a sect, it makes me doubt their claims of divine […]
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Good spiritual weather
Sometimes it happens that I am very frustrated in the evening and go to bed with a depressed, angry mood, really pissed off by everything and everybody. The world seems all dark, and actually it is, as it is late at night, e.g. 2 a.m.. Then the next morning I wake up early, and I […]
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The necessity of pragmatic faith
Introduction In the article “Called, the third way” from 2007-12-03 I came to the conclusion that one should “[v]iew your actions as essentially human activity in obedience to God’s general will, except where God’s immediate instructions surprise you.” And in the follow-up article “What we term relationship to Jesus” I argued that “relationship”, when applied […]
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What we term relationship to Jesus
In the evangelical realm, “(personal) relationship to Jesus” is a popular expression. Intuitively, this implies two-way communication, as this is present in every other relationship. And consequentially, people who entered this “relationship to Jesus” expect Jesus to talk to them: personally, immediately, contemporarily, and regularly. Sad to add that these people are way too often […]