On Becoming Human.....

Freedom lies in discovering that the truth is not a set of fixed certitudes but a mystery we enter into, one step at a time. It is a process of going deeper and deeper into an unfathomable reality. Jean Vanier, in Becoming Human

For me, Scripture and the Creed are the ultimate Christian expression of this principle. Neither provides nor intends to supply certainty in the conventional sense of the term. Both are invitations to enter into the ‘unfathomable’ reality of God in Jesus Christ. “Word made flesh”, “eternally begotten”, “of one Being with the Father”, “became incarnate”, “seated at the right hand” find their power not as attempts at literal descriptions but as literal truths (and there is a difference). Such words are not definitions but biddings, opening to us a Reality that is God’s, and not of our own making. The ultimate challenge with which Scripture and the Creed confronts us is this: will we insist the story be according to my sense of propriety, or will I willingly, eagerly, joyfully become part of God’s story?