Staving Off Contemplation

The point of Christianity for the vast majority of Christians is to simply account for the unknown, tag it theologically, and file it away in a private, locked place where one never has to look at it again.

However, in real Christian discipleship the unknown remains unknown. A mystery cannot avoid being one in perpetuity. Genuine faith never reduces mystery to clarity. The experience of God remains a mystery. This unknown needs to be integrated into life. And no amount of talking about this will make it so.

Christianity is not about conformity or values. It is about living life itself. It is life. Until a person consensually yields themselves to God fully in the present they will remain a stranger to God and to themselves. They remain ignorant and excluded from the very depths of their own being.

Western people are raised with the absurd worldview that only that which can be named and raised to rational consciousness is what is real. When we can explain what something is and how we can use it then we think that we fully grasp it. Yet this verbalization isolates us from the genuine experience itself and obscures our understanding.