I see the Christians telling me it is a sin to admonish gays. I see the Bible---I won't even get into it. I see the gospel is "Believe and you'll be saved." I see the wicked flourishing. I see the righteous poor. I see people's property is looted. And God sits by, As the stars fall, And allows this suffering.
I know a distant echo of a religion... It is in my memories, But this thing called Christianity is not it. That distant echo I believe in. But whether God has punished me I don't know; According to Christians it is a sin to try and seek Him, And according to Christians it is a sin to desire righteousness. It is a sin to want to be holy, so I blasphemed.
I don't know what I believe in. I believe in Christ's Sermons, And Paul's Epistles, And the suffering of Jeremiah and John the Baptist. I believe in the Martyrdom of Polycarp and Ignatius. I believe in something...
But what I see the theologians saying, And what I see the pastors saying, And what I see the Biblical Scholars saying, That is not it.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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