If you've grown up in a Christian home, it's really hard to look at Christianity from a non-Christian worldview. I've been taught Bible stories before I could even speak English, I learned to pray like I learned to read. It just happens in a completely natural way. But a strange thought suddenly occurred to me today. Some of the things I believe are really quite wacko, if I step back and look at them outside of myself.
For example, how weird is it that I am reading in the 21st century a Book that contains the words and actions of Jesus from the 1st century AD? And how much weirder is it that I can talk to and have a personal relationship right now with this same Jesus who was once on earth in a totally different time, context, and culture? Plus, I am also speaking with someone who was once dead and came back to life.
And as a seminarian, how strange is it that I am spending a couple years of my life scrutinizing the words in the Bible, trying to understand the 1st century Jesus while talking to him personally in the present? It's almost like time travel...
And the biggest mystery of it all? Observing all this ridiculous "foolishness" still doesn't give me any reason to doubt the truth of the gospel.
Perhaps it's because being convinced of the truth takes something more than just logic.
"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. -1 Cor. 2:9-10*
*Disclaimer: I have not done proper exegesis on this verse yet. I will await my fellow classmate's paper on this passage due in Dec. =)
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