Truth always has two sides. One cannot stick to one without neglecting the other and the over-emphasis of one over the other, in theology, is heresy (or so says a bible teacher I heard once).
To me, I’ve always held to the maxim that we need to hold grave truths in astute balance.
One cannot take on too much fire-and-brimstone without taking in also the jaw-dropping-wonder of Christ’s unconditional love.
But one may ask, “What is Truth, in a post-Christian/post-post-modern/relativistic/money-driven world?”
Is God both Good and Evil? My Hindu friends would say that God transcends Good and Evil. My Buddhist friends would agree with me that one must take everything in balance…
But the God I worship is Truth personified, like the Incarnation, where the immutable and undefined and unsearchable nature of God was transmuted into a finite, tangible and limited human form, for a brief moment in human history.
And He showed that it was infinitely more than form, but function. His divinity was shown in an existential expression of relationships that are otherworldly in fabric and feature. Sure, there were flashes of Divine Power manifested and released (or unleashed), but essentially, the Divine mind and heart, humanized, exemplified both a high and incomparable Ethic, a humility keeping Creation through the ages, an unrelenting forgiveness, an intellectually transcendent compassion and a Divine selflessness that outshines all our narcissistic notions of self hood.
May we emulate His qualities.
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