Thelonious Cornpepper
1 min readFeb 25, 2024

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It seems to me that "deconstruction" is simply a matter of losing faith. I am not entirely unsympathetic to the process. There are two ways of looking at the Bible: one is through the lens of rationality and the other is through faith, and there are many positions on the continuum between the extremes of those two positions. Balance is the key, and humans are often notoriously bad at balance. You can approach much of what is in the Bible from a totally rational perspective and throw the spiritual baby out with the bath water, gleaning little or no spiritual discernment from the Biblical content. You can also accept all the Bible blindly on faith, which is okay as long as its a personal thing, but not okay when your blind faith leads to Christian nationalism or supporting a blatantly unChristian con man for the highest office in the land. Balance is the key.

It certainly seems to me that Jesus sinned when he worried his parents sick by lingering in the synagogue. That's what my rational mind tells me. At the same time, the Bible says he was a perfect sacrifice because he lived a sinless life, so faith is required to accept his sinlessness. Either my definition of sin is askew or God the Father saw Jesus' intent in his heart and found that intent to be sinless. I don't know the answer, but then I always have more questions than answers. Living with that cognitive dissonance is one of the difficult things about being a Christian.

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Thelonious Cornpepper
Thelonious Cornpepper

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