About this site
When a friend asked about Christian beliefs, I tried to find a good reference to offer, but I wasn’t happy with what I saw on the internet. The sites I found did not convey the personal meaning and uplifting inspiration that I have been given in the Christian faith.
That prompted me to record a brief summary for my friend on this website, in the hope it may also be useful to others (see Basic Belief and Creeds.)
But what I have found about Christian belief is that it is NOT a fixed and complete set of philosophical statements, that is for the realm of human theories. It is instead a journey of a lived experience of trust, where each day may bring new and deeper understanding. It’s about real life rather than human logic.
So, I also set up a forum for discussing life’s difficult questions (see Questions), and exploring what the bible can reveal (see Discover).
And I also set up the Reflections section to share my personal thoughts, which are not fixed, but grow with time.
Some people I have known were sent to the best private church schools and learnt just enough about Christian belief to get a wrong understanding and reject that. And some, when facing pain and loss, received advice from churchy friends that felt like unfeeling platitudes. Real life has plenty of dark valleys, and it’s the difficult challenges and hard questions that can lead us to understand how Christian faith makes perfect sense of life’s harsh realities.
This site is not intended for debate for or against Christian beliefs, but to provide a forum to explore life’s ultimate questions and confusions, and to explore how Christian belief relates to those.
Christian belief becomes personal and meaningful when it is received from bible verses, so I hope you will enjoy using the Discover section.
Please share your questions, concerns, and thoughts, using the Contact or Comments forms, or forms to submit posts. Due to the feral nature of so much of internet activity, I will moderate entries before listing them. Suggestions for the reference Links page are also welcome.
Let us explore!
Human Perspective
A few years ago, I read that 95% of the universe was unknowable, as it was composed of dark matter, about which we could gather no data.
When I mentioned this to a retired research scientist, he suggested a further uncertainty. He explained that dark matter had been postulated as a solution to unexpected results from the formula for gravity between known bodies in the universe. But this formula, which works for the distances in our solar system, may not be valid for the huge interstellar distances to which it was being applied.
In summary, he thought we don’t even know how much we can never know, but it seems to be most of everything!
Yet what we have been given to know is fascinating, so let us see.
Aims and Assumptions
Given this uncertainty, what basis do we use for our reflection?
My aim in this site is to present the Christian perspective from my understanding, but also to enable people to present different understandings.
Here, the bible will be used as the source for guidance. But I realise some denominations have drifted away from relying on the bible, so this may be an opportunity to reflect on your assumptions — to what extent are they based on culture and tradition, popular myths of our day, or human logic?
The pages outlining basic belief can only give a dry skeleton, while I hope the reflection pages will invite you on a journey of understanding from the bible.
