Eze's Musing

I am a Christian, I was born into Christianity. Over the years, I have walked my own spiritual journey in the overall framework of Christianity. So, some micro beliefs that once mattered no longer do. Some, practices are now clearly seen as simple traditions that have nothing to do with right standing with God.   Years of both religious, philosophical, and historical study also lend a particular color to my view of what matters most in the Christian religion. Since I have been an individual who is keen about my internal belief system matching my external actions, it has been a hard battle with living true to the  requirements of the established church - my mind keeps sorting which is essential and which is simply an addendum. Organized Christianity has a strong pull, you can't dissent easily. Plus the sentiments are deeply rooted such that they block off even obvious points from the Holy book. Dissent is negated no matter how Bible-based it is. The norm just have to be maintained,

So, I visited Ope, a Christian brother from my national service days. His bathroom shower works! If you have lived in some mid and low-cost areas of Enugu, the coal city, you will know that's a big deal. I have lived in houses where we did the bucket method. And it is my birthday today, and I want to make the day special, but I never know how to. I know however that I must write. So, I write - The Gift Of A Body. I got that in Ope's shower! Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a BODY you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, O God.' "   - Hebrews 10: 5 - 7, New International Version. The writer of Hebrews was obviously quoting Psalms 40: 6 - 8, with some slight modifications. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings an

    But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?" You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;   it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raise