How are you doing so far? There is nothing being “taken away” from the Christian faith: far from it. We’re just letting the fake louis vuitton scarf Spirit speak to us in modern-day terms that is far better “spiritual bait” to attract fish (or whatever your metaphor might be). I’m now going to move from Mythological concepts to Metaphysical principles. The second area where fake louis vuitton scarf the church needs to adopt a new paradigm, which is really the fake louis vuitton scarf oldest one. Here’s one way to look at it (these two). What myth is to the imagination, metaphysics is to the intellect. Metaphysics asks the question, what is REAL? It’s the fake louis vuitton scarf study of the ultimate and fundamental reality of life. Unfortunately, much of the fake louis vuitton scarf world think that the church is out to lunch with some of it’s unbelievable concepts. And, I do too, but since I love the fake louis vuitton scarf church, I’m doing what I think I can to save it while I labor in a nearby vineyard called a COMMUNITY.
People don’t see as REAL (definition of metaphysics) many of the stories that Christians tell. They don’t believe in a virgin birth. They can’t get the supernatural mumbo jumbo that fake louis vuitton scarf they hear Christians praying, asking a God somewhere out there to fake louis vuitton scarf come and intervene in our life. But, get this. They believe in the fake louis vuitton scarf supernatural. Where has the church gone off track?
Tell me?
They can’t see any reality in a man that was a Spirit, who was pre-existent, but somehow became one of us, and fake louis vuitton scarf then went back to being who He was before He was one of us- whatever that fake louis vuitton scarf might be, and who on earth could know that? Oh yes, and then in His ousia (being), He’s going to come back some day (Parousia). The religious god language that fake louis vuitton scarf the church uses may have had some value 1,000 years ago, but it fake louis vuitton scarf doesn’t make sense to the NOW world and so therefore people don’t see what we say as anywhere near being REAL.
And none of the above denies the NOW divinity of Jesus, the Christ! 
And as Teilhard de Chardin is quoted as saying, “Even the index to a course of Christology doesn’t have any mention of “pre-existence”, while layman let it fall off their lips like slobber.”
The mystery of Christos is fake louis vuitton scarf one of the most deep puzzles that we treat with way too much familiarity: as we do other religious terms that fake louis vuitton scarf are more like “passwords” to see if someone is worthy of entering “your club”. The ontic (real being) rope to fake louis vuitton scarf which Christianity has attached itself is frayed and about to snap. The church has fake louis vuitton scarf got to come up with new language that speaks in a fake louis vuitton scarf dialect that people today can grasp- that makes sense, and is fake louis vuitton scarf REAL (to them). And I would venture to say becomes more REAL to us.
Praying to a parental Father out there somewhere who fake louis vuitton scarf rewards us for doing good and spanks us for doing bad doesn’t quite seem real to today’s thinking person. Saying that there is a Consciousness that fake louis vuitton scarf holds the world together that knows and created all makes far more sense. Saying that fake louis vuitton scarf we are ALL a part of that One, Spirit, or Ground of Being (like a wave in an ocean or a beam of the sun) is inviting and non threatening- except to the devoutly religious.
All I can say church, is change or keep dying the slow death!
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