What Really
Matters
To be Christian, I would say, is to live within the Christian tradition
as a metaphor of the sacred, and also as a sacrament of the sacred. The
tradition as a whole has as one of its main purposes mediating the reality
of the spirit or the reality of the sacred—that is, entering into
a relationship with the sacred. It's about entering into a relationship
with suchness, with is-ness. I think of God, to use very abstract language,
as is-ness without limits. Our relationship to is-ness matters profoundly.
It will shape our whole way of being in the world.
-–Dr. Marcus
Borg
from the question “ … Is believing certain creeds really what
Christianity is all about?”
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