[...]What’s the difference?[...]…

[...]What’s the difference?[...]…

I was thinking about something similar today, about how i need to not pity people.

How when I help someone I don’t need to put them below me (internally ) but I need to understand I am like them, and I need help all the same, and I can only give because I have been given to myself (if thats not a tongue twister and makes sense)

It’s good to hear you have a heart for people. And interesting to see this side of your online presences,

and humm yoga I have done a little but nothing serious mostly just for working out… and I actually like running so I do that but its more solo.

It really does touch on an excellent study though… the thought that, in this life, the rubber hits the road when “life happens.” This is when the present value of one’s worldview is experienced. So, for e.g., when the Jehovah Witness get’s cancer, where does that works- based system get you?

However, this could just as easily be turned on the Christianity of evangelical protestantism… that if the inner emotional experience of the heart is what matters, if that is the core of one’s religion, where does that get you when you can no longer give assent to the confession of the faith because of Alzheimer’s?

I continue to find more and more comfort in my faith as something Christ did outside of me.

Anyway, thanks for the thoughts Bob!

If just ‘what we did’ when life happened was the difference, then you’re right: it’s just another set of works. I probably should have said that we take that a step further and look at WHY we did what we did…that’s where the difference lies.

The “why we did it” is the mystical aspect of this discussion…because the answer is “we did it because we couldn’t ever do it…it’s the Healer doing it for us”

So, in the end: Good distinction Anthony: What I’m talking about here is the outward and visible difference between Christians and others…not the true difference between Christianity and other faiths.

Still trying to wrap my head around what I’ve just written here :)

However, your solution to the difference between religions seems to be interwoven with the problem. If what separates worldviews is what we do when “life happens” than is that not just another good work (which you did well to argue is not the essence of Christianity, though it is a necessary fruit of faith, albiet a fruit that is not specific to Christianity)? I assume when you argue the differences between religions you are speaking of an outward distinction. If you are talking about more than just and outward distinction then is my reaction to what happens to me in life the “core” of my faith. Is my salvation dependent upon what I do? What if I have no reaction or my reaction is the same as a non-believer, am I lost?

I think the difference in worldviews is more simple than that… either my sin, problems, and all my junk is forgiven and redeemed at the cross… or not. Either my name is written in heaven… or it’s not. That truth will be manifested differently in different people. But in the end, we are all broken people seeking to be healed and very much in need of healing – excellent point here Bob!