The way of paradoxes is the way of truth, said Oscar Wilde.
It’s hard to let go of our preconceptions. It’s unsettling. But we have to experiment with letting go because life is all about paradox.
Sometimes we look at ourselves and think we are worthless. Yet somehow we are precious in God’s eyes.
We know we are from this planet, but we don’t really belong here.
Poet and storyteller Steven James describes us as “skin covered spirits with hungry souls”.
We are both Hitler and Gandhi, Genghis Khan and Martin Luther King, nurse and terrorist, lover and liar.
Humility is another paradox. The moment you think you’ve finally found it, you’ve lost it.
Anyway, humility seems risky.
It’s not always clear in this world who’s on our side and who isn’t.
We don’t know the plan.
In his book Sailing Between The Stars, James urges us to embrace the spiritual paradoxes instead of trying to stuff faith into little boxes.
“Release your grip,” James advises.
“It’s humbling and exhilarating to live in the middle of a riddle.”
He points to all the stress and ugliness in the world and says we must accept there’s a lot about God’s plan we will never understand.
God can seem illogical, unreasonable and yet somehow unmistakenly true.
The sooner we understand “the uncommon sense” of belief, the better.
“I used to think that defending my faith meant providing people with answers,” James says.
“I’m just starting to realise that it isn’t answers people typically want. Answers don’t usually satisfy us because it isn’t just our head that is hungry.
“That’s why when Jesus came, he didn’t bring answers. He brought mystery wrapped in love.”
He’s right. The foundation of Christian belief is a paradox.
Bryan Patterson's Faithworks 
The foundation of Christianity is historical facts. Events. Things God said and did.
An historical event is not a paradox. Things happened or they didn’t. It is forensic facts against which people are eternally judged.
Stupefied by relativism
Blinded by science. [falsely so called]
leading to the next war. Like night follows day, people denying their history are going to relive the very worst bits of it…..
multi cultic Rotherham to Molenbeek to Cologne to more “no go” zones around Stockholm etc etc etc. So who waved the flags of multi cultic anti Christ relativism? Who now? Who?
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When a person is telling another their thoughts the bias thoughts within the other pervert the actual words and direction what the teller is trying to deliver.
People can not stop inserting their own words of direction into others words.
The situation is even more exasperated when one is after a direction not to the person telling is aiming for.
When a person is after a reward the judgement is WORTHLESS.
And religions are groups of people all after a reward .
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