Black or White Scenarios [Communitas Collective]
By Helen at Communitas Collective...
Black or white scenarios
I’ve been doing some programming recently which has reminded me how black or white computer code is. When it’s correctly written it always works. If it’s just one character off it will (maddeningly) entirely fail to run. And yes, I’ve been reminded of the latter this week!
When I became a Christian I joined a Christian tradition with black or white at its core:
- There are two eternal destinies: heaven (perfect happiness) or hell (unending conscious pain)
- Heaven is for perfect (100% sinless) people only
- Either God’s spirit indwells you or you aren’t a Christian at all
There’s a stark elegance about black and white on a piano. And as I mentioned, I know from (frustrating) experience that computer code is black and white.
Yet the more I thought about *people* the less it made sense to try to fit them into the black or white framework of the theology I’d been taught... [more...]
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