When did we turn our faith into the stifling idea that we know all there is to know, that all there is to do is to believe verbal statements and follow rules? The early Christians called their faith "The Way", expressing that they were onto something dynamic, something evolving. Jesus' disappearance after the resurrection points to the same idea.
But as it rose to power, Christianity succumbed to the temptation of doctrine, and doctrine became an idol. The fathers did not know that as we finalize our language and freeze our ideas in time, the boundaries of our world close in on us.
We are just beginning to shake off these burdens and breathe freely again by the Spirit.
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