{"id":7221,"date":"2024-02-15T01:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2024-02-25T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T18:03:41","slug":"jesus-and-godel-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/jesus-and-godel-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"[jesus and godel 2024 post one]: Jesus and Godel, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So once again I’m taking something good on for Lent – continuing my series on “Jesus and Godel”. To get started, I want to talk a little about the approaches that Jesus and Paul take to conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus reassures us a lot – he frequently tells us not to be afraid or to worry. But he also says that he’s here to divide people from each other. Paul, in contrast, is an authoritarian: most of the rules that make up modern Christianity come from Paul – yet he admonishes us not to separate into factions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These messages are actually complementary. Jesus is the messenger of truth, which on the one hand is nothing to be afraid of – but can cause conflict when people do not agree on the truth. Paul, on the other hand, suggests that we should not separate into factions because of our disagreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus taught with authority, but Paul admits that sometimes he’s speaking for himself – and both suggest that we should be peacemakers. We are fallible, which means that we can be wrong, and the people we interact with can be wrong – which can lead to division, as we stand up for what’s true; but that fallibility means we cannot rely on our own authority, but must instead turn together towards Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think these ideas are worth unpacking further – but, in the spirit of “drawing every day” and “blogging every day”, I did not want the quest for perfection to get in the way of starting on the path towards it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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