Altruistic Muse
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- MBTI
- INFJ
- Enneagram
- 4?
I have just started Alpha course, and one of the initial presentations was about the freedom that faith in Jesus brings you. I would have thought this was an obvious precept of Christianity, but only two of us thought it was the case, and three others said that their faith had given them no freedom... and one stated that he believed the preacher had misread his Bible, and this was not one of Jesus' teachings at all! I was amazed... first of all I stated the obvious answer, of Jesus condemning the Pharisees for being bound to ritual... he contested with the fact that as a Jew He was bound to all sorts of traditions, it was just a few of them that he had disputed... another point which I should have made was that throughout the teachings, Jesus alludes to freedom without stating it. For example "Follow me, and become fishers of men".. this means leave behind all your worldly ties, be bound to me. And "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and i will give you rest..." (my favourite verse by far!), is surely about freedom from fear and anxiety! I was very surprised, I think this course is going to be interesting. At first when I realised that we were all "Christians", I thought man, this will be boring and pointless... but now I realise that the word means very little, and there are so many views on the matter.