The Word made flesh
Chuck Colson offers a concise and compelling declaration of just who Jesus Christ is in his Townhall column today. Ultimate reality incarnated as a human being.
I do wish I’d come across a theological explanation of this notion of the total depravity of humankind, though. Original sin, the Fall. Don’t send me back to reread my Genesis. What really happened? And why do the little pamphlets say “Your works are as filthy rags before him?” I don’t understand a cosmology in which one’s volitional inclination toward God wouldn’t be a good thing. I guess I’m still hung up on this notion that the Great Scorecard is binary, that you either confess faith in the saving blood or you’re done for.
To harken back to what I said about the West in yesterday’s post, though, there’s no doubt that conventional Christianity brings real hope and a changed way of life to millions of people. There are parts of the world that are becoming more Westernized, in that sense, than some places that have been central to Christendom for centuries.
I am having a nice Christmas Day so far. Just had some killer coffee cake that one of Mrs. BN’s clients made. This afternoon I’ll curl up with Surrender Is Not An Option by John Bolton, the most memorable of my gifts.
