- N.T. Wright
notes from the underground: my attempt to keep the things I read in my brain
Monday, March 10, 2014
it's either a reality or a sham
"How can you cope with the end a world and the beginning of another one? How can you put an earthquake into a test-tube, or the sea into a bottle? How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that the fire has become flesh, that life itself came to life and walked in our midst? Christianity either means that, or it means nothing. It is either the more devastating disclosure of the deepest reality in the world, or it’s a sham, a nonsense, a bit of deceitful play-acting. Most of us, unable to cope with saying either of those things, condemn ourselves to live in the shallow world in between..."
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I like this. Who really, honestly thinks about that reality very often? I know I'm guilty.
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