About a thousand Christian parallels are swarming like bees through my mind right now; however, I am not going to take the time to point them all out. Yet there is something I would like to mention.
The scariest sort of person is the person who has nothing to lose. No fear of death or consequence, no care towards someone or emotional baggage, nothing monetary or spiritual in which to make them human. How can a hero defeat an apathetic enemy, who thrives off of chaos and makes no rules, lives by no plan, and leaves everything to chance? Or perhaps a better question would be, is this person even "human" anymore?
Indeed, what is it that personifies us? What is it that grounds us, makes us vulnerable, propels us to believe in good and love and justice? What part of the conscious or psych connects us to our instincts? Is it a switch that can be broken under the cruelest of circumstances, and in that case forever dooming us to a life between something human and something almost demonic?
For a Christian, a Disciple, Christ is the switch. Christ becomes our center, our clarity, Christ overshadows us in that we are no longer alone. Christ is our magnetic jacket that pulls forth our hopes and aspirations, that creates our sense of law and regulation; He is our ground on which we can say "I know how to be. I know what it is to feel love and compassion; I know what it is to live and be human." Christ becomes our argument when we are pulled at by the Joker. "People are all the same," he hisses, "Desperate, greedy, selfish."
"This may be," you reply, "But it is no longer I, but Christ in me, which makes me whole."
I will forever believe that people are born desiring to be good. That somewhere, as God tugs at there hearts, so does His sense of righteousness. And sometimes, it comes through. And sometimes, it is overpowered by the passions of sin. Yes, we are born sinners with sinful desires at times. But at the climax, at the root of everything, if pressed to the very wire I have to believe and cannot imagine otherwise that a person will not have something inside of them saying "do the right thing."
A person himself cannot be satan. Only satan can be satan. But a person can be so reborn in Christ as to become part of the holiness, to become Christ-like. It is our calling for human nature to become Christ-nature. Maybe that is the instinct of goodness. I don't know. I'm not even sure what I'm talking about or if it makes the slightest sense. But of one thing I am certain, and that is that all will be righted through Christ, and human nature will continue to believe that justice will prevail.
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"I will forever believe that people are born desiring to be good. That somewhere, as God tugs at there hearts, so does His sense of righteousness. And sometimes, it comes through. And sometimes, it is overpowered by the passions of sin. Yes, we are born sinners with sinful desires at times. But at the climax, at the root of everything, if pressed to the very wire I have to believe and cannot imagine otherwise that a person will not have something inside of them saying "do the right thing.""
I like that part. Read my blog and you'll understand why that part stood out to me the most.
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