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Originally Posted by aron
Nell gave good advice - let go of everything you thought you knew and trust him. That was what I was saying, with my previous post.
As far as interpretation of the Word there are fantastic resources out there. But at it's core it's very simple, that was what I was trying to say earlier. If you have the basics then you can navigate the complexities.
The LC system is such a complete and thorough mind-rape that it's best to drop it all. If you were sucked into the 24/7/365 "church life" as many of us were, just start from the basics and move on. Give yourself one or two simple questions that you can answer in the affirmative, and you'll go forward. I mean, if God didn't raise Jesus from the dead on the third day, then we're just all wasting our time here. If he did, then we have hope and we go on.
The gospel is very simple but it's very deep. That is what has drawn, and continues to draw, seekers through the centuries. My own 'starting point' is the two great gospel messages in Acts, one by the Galilean fisherman Peter and one by the urban Pharisee Paul. Both use almost identical phrases and imagery. Compare Acts 2:24-32 with Acts 13:30-38. It's the same gospel. Why should any of us try to re-invent it?
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Thank you. I've been asked why I ask so many questions and why I overthink things in the LR. The gospel is quite clear. But what is life after the gospel? What is life after salvation? trying to do good and please God? Trying to grow in Christ and allowing Him to make home in our heart? Trying to deny our self, dying to our self, lying on the floor and taking it because that's what Jesus would do and that's how we cover one another? When do we have permission to call out the wicked? And when we call out the wicked, we must come to the light and see our own wickedness and then we succumb to the idea that life just sucks and we have to take whatever comes our way because a. we live in a fallen world b. there will always be suffering and c. a dead person doesn't feel.