The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood. John, 1:5. 

This phrase from John’s Gospel has been of incomparable help to me for many years now. There is much confusion within the modern Church - be it over the eligibility of homosexual clergy, the rights of women, contraception, or even something like the existence of hell. Argument over these issues, have always seemed to me a little futile. Human existence is open to error - we misinterpret and convolute the ideas and thoughts of one another, let alone the ideas of God. What we know is a closed system - God may appear to us individually, and touch our hearts, but God’s wisdom ultimately transcends the imagination of the human. To try and play advocate to God is almost insulting - what human could ever truly understand Him?

So this confusion, then, is the dark. We are the dark - and we shut out the lights every time we choose to fight with one another; or judge one another; or put forward a personal view as the one of God. To me, the Bible isn’t a wholly reliable source of truth either - man has corrupted it so. In addition, the decision to observe the Old Testament is something which bothers me: Jesus was the Light - the new covenant, sent to dispel the darkness of the Old Testament. But those who cling to the Bible in its entirety, in my opinion, cling to the darkness.  

Christianity is simple - the clue is in the name. Christ is the one true Light: the one concept we must let into our lives. We distract ourselves with arguing about the Way, and forget the things which Jesus taught us. To love each other without question, to refrain from judging from one another, and to love the one true God: these are the things that matter. Let God judge the rest: to pretend that we can give a valuable insight into the wisdom of God is something very arrogant. And,at this point, I would like to remind any die hard Doctrinarians that Pride is a deadly sin.