wrong, or misunderstood?

The propo­si­tion of the Chris­tian reli­gion could be ele­vator-pitched as: we do not have to take respon­si­bility for our sins – they are for­given by Christ; we get a fresh start, and the sins we still commit while in our bodies are con­tin­u­ally swept away by Christ’s blood. The flip­side is: we will also refrain from taking credit for any of our achieve­ments – they will all be done in the merit of Christ – Gal 2:20.

Does self and ego play into this? This cre­ation is not “ours”, we are not our own, we do not pos­sess any­thing in this world, least our­selves. In that respect, we cannot take credit for cre­ating or being any­thing, orig­i­nally. This life is entirely a free gift. At least, i hope nobody in his/her right mind would claim that s/he actu­ally made its own figure and breathed of hers own spirit into it. If we acknowl­edge that we are part of a cre­ation that we have not ini­ti­ated nor set in motion, we also admit that we do not know why it was made, or what for, unless the Cre­ator reveals it to us.

The Cre­ator’s pur­poses are nec­es­sarily higher than the cre­ated beings can com­pre­hend – Is 55:8-9. Life’s noblest pur­suit should be trying to align the best we can with the per­fect and beau­tiful designs and pur­poses of the cre­ator – in short, to love G-d. We are all thrown into this struggle of real­izing this pur­suit within the war­ring ten­den­cies of our con­scious and sub­con­scious minds.

What is this Christ for then? What is his redemp­tion? We still struggle, either side of our “con­ver­sion”. The pur­poses haven’t changed. Before coming to the faith, we were serving “our own”, selfish desires, now we are serving “G-d”? This notion holds no water, in light of the above.

All is sub­ject to G-d the cre­ator; HaShem can end this whole cre­ation any instant, and it would be as if it had never existed. Yet He chose to make us con­scious, with minds crated and appointed to think freely. He set this cre­ation up in a way that we should live with the mindset that our own indi­vidual and col­lec­tive actions matter, and that we shall take respon­si­bility for these actions. Even if that under­standing or per­cep­tion is not out­right “true” (what is truth), it is the only way we can redeem our lives. No third party can do this for us.

Is it the dying and living again, being raised? We all die a bit every night when we go to sleep, and are raised again the next morning, if HaShem wills. Every new year is a fresh start – Shana Tovah 5782! The cur­rent moment is the only time that “counts”, past and future are heaps of mem­o­ries and pre­mo­ni­tions. The world is re-cre­ated every yoc­tosecond – more often, in fact, but that’s the shortest interval we humans cur­rently have a name for.

Is the Chris­tian propo­si­tion, the ratio­nale for this reli­gion, not a mirage? I’d be curious to hear your thoughts via the com­ment sec­tion below, or via the con­tact form.