Light: The theology of moving out.

"Hello"

If i was to ask what religion I should go for there would be a few prerequisites. It would have to be nothing like the others, captivating me with an infinitely large new idea i've never heared before. Ultimate truth can't be a few minuets longer in group study time.

It would have to be considered by those stuck up stiff shirted nerds as prosperous, silly, and absurd.

It would have to be demanding. How demanding? It would have to demand that i live and stop thinking about how bad i am.

And maybe, just maybe, if the wind is blowing in the right direction, and the tea leaves aren't swearing; it would have to be a religion that thinks it's fantastic to barge in and say "Hello, lets have a conversation."

Indeed.

He is the potter we are the clay. He is the seed and we are the ground.

The hard ground thinks they are the seed as well, and can produce Godly righteous fruit themselves.

Poor basteds

In the beginning {Gen 1:1-3} Jesus words shine a light in the darkness. Later He refers to his gospel as "the Light shines in the darkness" {John 1:5}. How many religions are as different to all the others as day is different to night. How many religions don't try to impress there God. The apostle Paul says the true gospel will be interpreted as "foolishness to the wise" {1Cor 1:18}, and would make people snigger "let us do evil that good may come" {Rom3:8}. But what religion makes people respond like that? Why it's the humble receivers of God that get all the flack about foolishly doing what they want.

To extreme:- "isn't" "nor is it" "all"

Jesus' example of a light on a hill isn't a guiding light, nor is it a moral light to it's surroundings. These are all typical week powerless and watered down expressions of Jesus' message of a truth completely different from it's surroundings. Not similar, or a better version or a lot better then other religions; but as different as the speck of light on a hill is different to it's surroundings.