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Faith Or Credulity? - by Arlo Nau
Faith and credulity....
Identical twins with conflicting personalities;
Sugar and salt; Pill and placebo;
Strangers occupying the same pew.
How do they differ? How can we tell?
Which is which? And which are we?
Faith remains open-ended....
Its door left ajar to the divine novelty;
Anticipating the surprise of God's omniscience;
Responsive to the nuance of sacred innovation.
Credulity is a locked box....
Comfortable in untested certainty;
Trapped in the tomb of unchallenged tradition;
Wrapped in the accoutrements of obsolescence.
Faith is ever new....
Scented by the perfume of proven antiquity,
But refreshed by the Resurrection's vernal air;
Joyfully recreating itself each day.
Credulity is a faded artifact...
Reeking of tired conformity;
Atrophied by the anachronisms of sentimentality;
Worn liturgically smooth by somnolent routine.
Faith prefers understatement....
A still small voice humbled by human finitude;
Awed by the silence of the spheres;
Calmed by the disarming grace of God.
Credulity is boist'rous....
Confident in the superiority of ignorance;
Mistaking pietism for piety;
Truth without love, fact without forgiveness.
Faith redounds to God's glory....
Its content untraceable to human thought;
Its drive in stride with the rhythms of righteousness;
Its gifts the size of the heart of Christ.
Credulity is self-aggrandizing....
Leaving place for human pride;
Its compassion cooled by convenience;
Its god its own correctness.
Faith or credulity....
Identical twins with conflicting personalities;
Which shall it be? Which defines me?
"Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief."
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