One of the great and forceful enemies to Christianity has, in recent decades, been the ever growing propensity to deem Christianity as merely another of the many possible and tenable philosophies that is offered to the modern world. To think of Christianity categorically of the same kind as that of any other philosophical posture or spiritual idea is akin to amputate Christianity from, as it were, Christ.
On the contrary, Christianity is not and has not ever been a set of abstract philosophical postulations severed from any actual reality. Christianity is and has always been a set of historical facts, actual space-time history that demands a verdict on the part of the listener: faith or not.
Christianity should not be allowed to devolve into mere postulations of theology as if abstract theological postulation could ever come close to the actual Christianity that is found in the person and resurrection of Jesus the Nazarene. Theology, though good and necessary exercise, is grounded solely in Christ. To sever Christianity from Jesus, the actual factual person of history, would be a travesty and would relish it impotent and irrelevant in the stream of spirituality.
Instead, Christianity is intimately and necessarily tied to the actual events of history, for it is in these events that God has stepped into creation and enacted His grace in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazarene. These things should never leave our lips as we discuss Christianity and its power to transform lives for God!
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