Being my own Pope and Magisterium led me to the insanity of believing in myself.
The entire post it good. I share sentiments with Stuart… in that I once held absolute certainty, but the more my faith grew, so did my doubt. A lot of absolute certainty is exactly what Stuart says it is – we are our own doctrinal standards, and in a sense, our own gods.
Good stuff. Read and enjoy.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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