This Is Me #7

Christianity Meh

The truth cannot be humble. A sweater that is black cannot entertain comments that it might be green or red because it does not want to step on people's toes. It is simply black and there's no other way to look at it. Sure, you can say that "this sweater was dyed black" and that's why it's black or you can say "this sweater does not reflect any light waves that would give it color" and that's why it's black, but at the end of the day you simply have to admit that it's black. The sweater isn't going to "be nice" and pretend it's another color to eventually let the fact sink in that it's black in the distant future when you're more ready. It's black. End of story. And that's the whole truth in a world where clothing is animate and has emotions.

Christianity's truth can be described in a similar way: Jesus Christ died for our sins and because his actions on the cross, we are promised eternal life with God in heaven. Anyone who is a Christian usually does not dispute this notion. Much like the color of the black sweater, this truth seems to be in your face, screaming, "I'm here! I'm here!" in the New Testament and there's no real way of getting around it if you believe the Bible to be true.

What Christians do not seem to agree on is how this should be lived out, what this affects in our day to day lives, and how it affects them. The whole spectrum exists, those who have conservative moral beliefs, those who have more liberal moral beliefs, those who believe in a young Earth, those who believe in evolution, those who give away all their money, those who save money to be used in ways they deem fit, etc. And all of them claim that they're right. Anyone who has conservative views believes that their way of living Christianity is the truth and is equivalent to the truth that Jesus is the Christ. The same can be said of more liberal Christians. One half says "shame on you", the other half says "this is the 21st century, get with the program". Both have biblical support (it seems). Both have few people who are willing to admit that the other group has any kind of meaningful traction that could be used in their own lives.

Outside of Jesus Christ, does Christianity have a truth like a black sweater? I have relegated myself to silent agnosticism in this case. Being humble seems to be a better route to me but this is little more than admitting I don't know the truth.