"Very few people today find Jesus interesting as a person or of vital relevance to the course of their actual lives. He is not generally regarded as a real-life personality who deals with real-life issues but is thought to be concerned with some feathery realm other than the one we must deal with, and must deal with now.
He is automatically seen as... (fitting) only within the categories of dogma and law. Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not. What we have to believe or do now, by contrast, is real life, bursting with interesting, frightening and relevant things and people."
Dallas Willard
2 comments:
He is important; however, Christianity has only enabled him to be relevant after death.
When it comes to questions about the best way to live your life, the Lord of Life, and the Creator of the World, just doesn't have anything to offer...
...I think I'll go read Maxim.
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