Perfect Lover

In candid moments among Christians, I’ve more than once heard incredulity expressed regarding the non-believer, and to be more specific, incredulity towards atheism, which comprises the bulk of non-Christians that I and my fellows have dealt with. I was asked this question today, that is, how can anyone reject Christ? and immediately the voices of Klavan and Dr. Peterson began talking over each other, at least inside my head, describing the same cause from their separate angles. My rambling answer, I’m sure, made my companion empathize with noble Festus[1].

Of course the reasons are varied, and honest skeptics of the Christian dogmas exists, however, personal experience reveals an active laziness, a proactive apathy, toward thoughts of spiritual matters. This is not to say that my non-Christian friends have no spiritual opinions, for they will fight like mad to preserve an unquestioned amalgam of cheap television philosophy. It is to say, they rarely bring argument or reason to aid their sentiments, but misdirection, ad hominem, and a battery of etiquette perverted to quash open discourse upon the subject of religion.

This dichotomy, a mask of disinterest over a desperate need to avoid the topic, is of the same fearful motivation that lead the parable’s steward to bury his lonesome coin. His actions, at least, were those of an atheist: he behaved as though no master over him would require an account. Christ gives all for you, including his life, and the only moral response is to in turn render your life, your everything, back unto him. It is terrifying to take the talent at hand and risk it for future reaping; more so to give all of one’s imperfect self unto the perfect lover, for so that body of believers is called, the bride of Christ.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Luke 9:24

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Acts 26:24