“One of the reasons the traditional churches have little support” (Letters,
May 10) is, I suggest, that “a traditional understanding of Christianity”
demands that its adherents change.
Christians are asked to change the way they live and ultimately to change
the person they are, into the person of Jesus Christ. So people like Richard
Dawkins, who think life's pretty jolly nice the way it is, and being intelligent
can understand what Jesus Christ is asking of us, prefer to profess atheism.
It’s easier.
Even for those who are not so bright, in a comfy place like New Zealand
change is unwanted and, to use the ultimate put-down, ‘unacceptable’. For most
people, unaware and untutored, God seems just too hard.
But as Scripture says, “his commandments are not heavy” (1 John 5,
3).
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