Dark Brightness

The last verse in this passage I read with difficulty, It forces me to review my life and acknowledge the wrong I have done: that I am an evid doer and only thorugh being in the book of life can I enter that city.

Revelation 21:22-2722

I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25Its gates will never be shut by day — and there will be no night there. 26People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

via PCUSA – Devotions – Daily readings for Wednesday, January 6, 2010.

This passage refutes the postmodern ethos that every way is OK. What matters is the existential integrity by which you follow a path. This passage would be seen as many as offensive, heresy, to be struck out and not read. It is homophobic. It is islamophobic.

I’r argue that this is to move tolenece into a religion: and those labelled as vicitims as the saints of this religion. Membership of the approved groups (which do hate each other) is not reason for one not to be accountable for one’s actions.

We need to smash the idol of tolerance.

We also noeed to not over spiritualise this . If we persist in wrongdoing, we will be held to account… we need to repent. We need to smast the idol of a gospel without repentance.