If I was a Christian, for Easter

[sophiaserpentia]

I am a spiritual refugee, exiled from my home forever. I could be a Christian if not for scripture, if not for doctrine.

If I was a Christian, this is what I would believe.

That Jesus believed in us.

That Jesus wanted us to see that no matter what we had experienced or done before, that we could rise above it by living in accord with the spirit of compassion and love for the divine.

That Jesus wanted us to understand that we are all in this together, and that together we could make anything happen. There is no "us versus them," there are no enemies; those who limit or oppress us are lost in their own nightmare and suffer their own limitations, and there is always hope of helping them to wake up.

That Jesus wanted us to stand together in solidarity and love in the face of brutality.

That Jesus refused to cower in the face of persecution, and was killed for challenging injustice.

That Easter is a clear sign from God that resistance against wrong and limitation is not futile -- that living in perfect love and perfect trust is the key to victory over death and fate.

That Paul wanted us to understand that the Resurrection is a promise that God is on our side when we work to transcend the limitations of fate.

That Paul wanted us to play our part in the reconciliation whereby God will become all in all.

crossposted to my journal and crossposted to convert_me

Comments

[firinel.livejournal.com]

Just a thought: are you aware of why the creeds were written?
It seems as if you're going under the assumption they were meant to be a primer of Christianity, when they were emphatically not intended to be so.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Most of my research into church history has preceeded the writing of the creeds -- but I do know they were intended to root out heretics -- to exclude the Adoptionists, the Gnostics, the Docetae, the Arianists, the Monophysitists, the Pelagians, the Donatists, and various others...

[firinel.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. It was a "We're not them because we believe 'fooo', which they don't believe" thing, not a primer. It's not meant to tell people what the main focus of Christianity was/is. I don't dispute that there are likely churches and possibly entire denominations that use it as such, or that doing so was/is wrong, but that honestly does not mean that the whole emphasis of Christianity as a whole is focused too much on negativity and not at all on compassion.