Why I Believe – Introduction

Greetings Dear Reader,

I am hoping to open a dialogue here.  I tire of my monologs with little interaction.  Over the next few days I am going to attempt to present and apologia for my faith.   This is an exercise for me in reaffirming what I believe and why.  I think that failure to examine these things regularly can lead to either dead orthodoxy or weak faith.  Neither of these is acceptable to me. 

In this exercise I will review the reasonableness of what I believe.  I also hope to honestly review the things that are not truly representative of being a follower of Jesus Christ.  I spent too many years focused on things that are not central to following Christ.  I, therefore, contributed to the misinformation about what it means to follow Christ. 

The first thing I will note is this; I believe because I have worked to seek truth.  I spent much time examining my options before I embraced Christ.  I spent too little time evaluating the trappings that others attach to faith before I embraced them.  In my first years as a Christ follower I was so concerned about pleasing the group of followers with whom I traveled that I did not consider that they journeyed far afield of Christ’s intent.

Further down the path I realized that when Christ talked about the road being narrow he was not talking about conservative or liberality.  I think he was excluding extremes in favor of the very narrow tenets he did put forth.  I will delve more deeply into these at the end of this part of our journey together. 

We are all on a journey toward God whether we embrace that truth or not.  Fortunately we have a God who comes to us so that we my journey toward him, follow him, and walk with him all at once.  This too will be key to our discussion.  Please, walk with me for a bit and as always I value your interaction.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."