Religion, Philosophy, Working Understanding

A Study Of Or Within Christianity

Kevin A. Sensenig | August 17, 2014

A Note On One Approach

Through following a contour of truth, I arrived at the following way of approaching Christianity.  It's just one approach.  If Christianity is a matter of personal faith, then that direction would also be up to the Holy Spirit.  But I thought this conveys the heart of it.  If one approaches Christianity as an interesting subject of study, then this would also apply.

It's 4 fold.  I also include the starting point for consideration, in Scripture.

4 fold juxtaposition

1.  These things happened that the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms might be fulfilled.  (Luke 24:44).

2.  Jesus as Light, Salvation, Forgiveness, and Judge.

3.  God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

4.  Relationship with God, wisdom, one’s neighbor.

Scripture

Genesis 1, 2, 3; Noah; the Exodus and the 10 Commandments; Moses and the burning bush; Elijah; Samuel or Daniel; Micah; selections from the Psalms; Proverbs 3; Luke; John; James; 1 John; Hebrews.  These are the things I would study, with the 4 points in mind.  What dimension!  If you find Christianity to be of interest in any way at all, whether as a subject of study, or of personal faith, how interesting this approach would be!  Then one can look into Romans and the other books, revisiting material along the way.

Proverbs 3 is important because it covers several things: first, instruction on how to approach life; second, instruction on how to work with God; third, an account of the paramount importance of wisdom.

A Note On My Viewpoint

I am a Zen Buddhist.  The above is taken from my book Roll Your Own Religion; and you can look at the section within that book “Thoughts On Christianity” for more; and the entire book tries to keep the domain open, and available; and often does not sound religious.  It is not meant to; while leaving space for awareness.

I do feel that the spiritual depth or standpoint of each author in the Bible should be taken into account; this is different from maybe Christian standard teaching; but it yields an interesting domain, and a more supple yet insight interpretation.  I feel that Christian theology comes up short sometimes, but that the Bible when made available to one-on-one grappling with what each author says, yields more than might be seen otherwise.