Pastoral Ruminations

I struggle daily — hourly — living in two worlds.
It’s already a major strain trying to live in Two Realms at the same time, but I am also pushing against a bitter hostility to the truth from virtually the entire world of falsehood. It’s like defending a tiny island of truth against the incessant invasion of a world of lies. The only reason I bother with studying literature, history, culture and philosophy is because I have this powerful sense of burden about setting people free. My ceaseless babble about Aristotle, Germanic tribal mythology, the Enlightenment, and all the other stuff is because those are major sources of soul-crushing lies.
Allow me to pick out a single item. You are perhaps aware of the Greek mythology tales of Charon and the ferry of the dead across the River Styx. Perhaps you are aware how it reflects a common theme in virtually all pagan mythology. There is something fundamental to this myth that is a blatant rejection of the biblical concept of Two Realms. The notion you could cross over by any means to the abode of the dead and return simply reinforces the lie of unitary reality. Virtually every human influenced by Western Civilization instinctively embraces this myth. Only a tiny slice of those are even aware of the power of this myth.
I struggle to find words to express the truth of things because our language excludes the categories of truth. Our entire universe sits inside a bubble of space and time, while outside it stands the Ultimate Reality of Eternity. God is rooted outside that bubble, yet every moment of every day I bump into Christian words and thoughts demanding I mentally stuff God back down inside this temporary bubble of false reality. The very choice of words in most Christian writing reaffirms the lie. Our culture makes it impossible to understand God views all of human history as a single thing before Him, where His awareness can reach into any part of past, present or future all at once. He has already shaped the end of things, yet we still have “Christians” insisting God can’t know the future. Worse yet, we have millions of believers who assume fundamentally God cannot see the future without any conscious recognition of it.
We are deeply bound by our assumptions about reality, assumptions that come from the mouth of Satan. We cannot see intellectually beyond our experience of time and space limitations, so we assume God is limited the same way. This, despite flat assertions to the contrary in Scripture. We read all sorts of false assumptions back into His revelation, essentially nullifying it’s power, tying His hands and insisting He can’t say certain things.
Thus, Christians also end up justifying the accusation that our faith is mythology. Christians use words to proclaim a faith in which they cannot possibly walk because everything in the very pattern of their intellectual process militates against it. So they push belief off into some special realm like phony magic. In the process, they are reaffirming the ancient heathen cultural assumptions of the German tribes that overran Europe a mere four centuries after Christ. We have a world of Western Christianity fundamentally programmed in agnosticism. Faith becomes an inexplicable “magic” of the European mythology instead of the very conscious grasp of faith and divine logic which pervades the Bible. People can’t walk in true biblical faith because their own brains betray them.
Yeah, this stuff matters.