No one is right, we are all struggling to get there, to climb to the top of the mound and push away all those other, wrong, people who keep trying to push us off by proving that we're wrong. Christianity really, really wants to be right. But, it's not. Even God is not right. Right does not exist in the universe.
Because, if I, for instance, am right and you think differently to me then you must be wrong. So now I am right and you are wrong and our relationship would be about me trying to correct you. However, you believe what you believe because your life is a journey. So for me to insist hat you are wrong is tantamount to dismissing your entire experience of life. It is the same as saying you're worthless.
For this reason God in the Bible, takes advice from little humans, makes mistakes, appears to not know things. He is a God of Love and being right and being Love do not produce the same fruit. The one values humanity the other needs to bend it to its will.
That is not to say that people can't be wrong, they can. But just because i can see some one else's failings it doesn't mean I'm right. When i stand before God he isn't going to say to me ' you know of all the 6 billion people on the planet it was you who got me in the bag, well done'
There is a gentleness and humanity that comes with being wrong. Not wrong with a capitol W but wrong as in a state of being. Wrong, not because we do things we're ashamed of but just because we're not right and so instead of feeling the need to stand in judgement we can just love.
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Well all I can say is you wrong! (Just kidding ;-). But seriously - wow - I love the way you explain something I've sort-of-been-grappling-with, but couldn't quite put into words. I decided to read a bit more about truth and found that Wikipedia has a good page on "truth". I wondered if you would subscribe to Kierkegaard's views?
Incidentally, wikipedia also has a page called "Truth (religious)". I though you might be interested to read it and maybe add to it yourself.
Regards
Hi Jon
Enjoyed your blog so far! I'll add it to google reader...
It's interesting what we're led to believe about God, when even the Bible doesn't necessarily say these things. We can have an idea of God as all-powerful and all-knowing, but if you think 'what if God isn't all-powerful/all-knowing?' and read again it's very enlightening...
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