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Dear Kim, This Is What I Believe Dear Kim, Dear Kim, This is what This is what I believe.... I believe.... Explaining Christian Faith Today by Bill Loader Explaining Christian Faith Today by Bill Loader Dear Kim, so. It has worried me that too few people write like this and that many This is what I believe . who do so produce not something Explaining that is simple and straightforward Christian Faith Today but something that is simplistic. I have tried instead to share openly by Bill Loader what I think. I am not wanting to imply that others should think as I I wrote this book because people do. Some people like to be told what in my family and among my friends they should believe because some high authority declares it to be right have often asked me: "Bill, what do you believe?" about so many as- or 'because the Bible says so' or be- pects of Christian faith. My niece, cause they believe themselves to be Formatted as a booklet by Peter Ellis Kim, now a woman in her 30's was the authority. This book is not for for study at: one of many of all ages. As a biblical them. It is for people who want to Kippax Uniting Church, Canberra, Australia scholar and theologian it would have think critically about their faith and http://www.kippax.org.au been easy for me to take a deep want to find a way of making sense breath, survey all the complexities of it so they can live from it in to- Cnr Luke Street & Hardwick Crescent, HOLT ACT 2615 and begin a long explanation which day's world. PO Box 35, KIPPAX ACT 2615 Ph: 62541733 email: [email protected] would have covered all the bases, shown fine academic balance, An earlier form of the book ap- earned respect as profound exposi- peared in hard copy as Dear Kim, tion from my peers, but which would this is what I believe. Explaining have left Kim and others yawning. Christian faith today, published by Uniting Ed., Melbourne. It has now sold out, so I have taken the oppor- So I decided it would be a good idea if I wrote simply what I be- tunity to revise it and put it on the lieved about some of the key as- web to make it accessible to a wider pects of Christian belief without try- range of readers. Over the next two ing to meet all those other worthy months, Sept/Oct, 2001, each of the goals. Can I say it plainly and sim- chapters will appear. They are set ply? I have tried in this book to do out below. Dear Kim, This is what I believe.... What about God? 3 What about Jesus? 13 Body Type: Verdana 10pt What about the Bible? 27 Headings: Lucida Handwriting What about the Church? 37 ©September 2001 What about right and wrong? 51 Format Version: March 2004 What about being Christian? 65 Sacred Space 75 2 Bill Loader Dear Kim, This is what I believe.... 79 Some people call that con- science, but for me it’s bigger than that. It’s life; it’s being in touch with the spirit and life of the universe. So it’s much more than knowing what is right and wrong. It’s a sense of oneness with other people, with nature, with myself. It is like knowing that they all draw on the same What about God? life energy - or they can. We all Chapter one of drink from the same stream. Revd Professor William R. G. Loader Dear Kim, God is like the stream of life and love that flows through all BA (Auckl) BD (Otago) this is what I believe . things. I can let that flow in my Dr theol (Mainz, Germany) FAHA by Bill Loader life or I can block it. I can help it flow in the world or I can dam it Professor of New Testament at Murdoch University Dear Kim, up. I can think of myself as a tree and New Testament Lecturer and Principal of the You asked me about God. I think about God in a number of with my roots deep in the Perth Theological Hall of the Uniting Church in Australia, different ways. ground drawing up the moisture of that stream. The life moisture teaching in the Theology Programme. Sometimes I think of God as comes up into my being. Even to being like the life energy that is contemplate it can be very in everything, that joins us all physically relaxing and renewing. together. God is in everything. I find it important to make time http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader God is also in me and in you. I every now and again to get in can be in tune with this life en- [email protected] touch with my roots and to ergy or out of tune with it. For sense the sap flowing up into my me as an individual it has a lot to body. It also helps me be aware do with being at one with my Uniting Church in Australia of where I block that flow so I true self. You know how some- http://www.uca.org.au can decide to change things. times you feel at odds with your- self or you know you’re not It’s also a bit similar to that when I think of those around me really being true to yourself? Well, for me, that’s the same as and of the world of human be- being true to God or it can be. I ings. The life energy is about need to try to live in harmony bringing harmony and whole- with God and, if I do, then I’ll ness. So, when I am in touch live in harmony with my true self with it, I become more aware and with the world around me. where there is disharmony, where the life stream is being Conscience? 78 Bill Loader Dear Kim, This is what I believe.... 3 blocked - in others, by others, by but it has its roots in a sense of there for all to enter and for all me, by us. So this is all con- wonder. There is the wonder at to share. It is the invitation of nected with concern for justice the minute, the beauty of a tiny God. This is what I believe. and equality among people, with flower. There is the wonder at concern for , peace in that the immense: looking out into (C) September 2001 sense, because the same spirit the universe of stars. If you have energy which wants to make me sat and gazed into the night sky whole and healthy wants this away from the city lights, you also for the world of human be- will know the experience. How ings. It’s not just all about me vast it all is: an endless array of Would you like to copy and use and it’s not about peace or har- worlds, stars, solar systems - this material in this electronic mony at the expense of justice. and we see only a fraction of publication? You are welcome to Sometimes the sense of oneness what there is! I find it hard to do so. I ask only that you ac- is a sense of shared pain as believe that there is not some in- knowledge its source, let me much as it is of shared joy. telligence behind it all. Some- know ([email protected]. I feel that also for the world of thing is behind all of this. I call edu.au) how you are doing so nature. I am connected with that ‘something’ God. and where, and, if you think it every other person and I am also The simplest way of expressing would be of interest to me, send connected with the world of na- this is to say: ‘God made the me a copy of what you produce. ture. There’s a sense in which universe’, but I’m not always what happens to them and to it sure that is so helpful. Immedi- happens to me. When I see na- ately some people will think ture savaged I feel a bit violated about the stories of creation in inside myself. When I see people the Bible and take them literally. treated like dirt, I feel dragged One of them says God created down too. We all belong to- everything in six days. The other gether. So I’m not talking about one says that humans were me and my navel and how to es- made like clay models and then cape this troubled world onto an breathed on and they came to isle of inner bliss now or in the life. These are ancient myths, future, but about how to live in which Israel shared with other the world in a way that is con- cultures of its day and which it nected and engaged with what is retold in distinctive ways. As going on. such they are full of deep mean- As well as thinking of God as ing, but I don’t treat them as lit- being like the life energy in all eral descriptions of what hap- things, I also think of God as be- pened. I don’t believe creation hind everything. It’s like saying: took place in six days. I’m not if it weren’t for God, there even sure that it makes a lot of wouldn’t be anything; nothing sense to try to pin-point a begin- would exist.
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