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A few days ago there appeared hamburg sued a photo in my news feed on Facebook. It was a terrible picture of the recent hamburg sued acts of violence in Egypt. I think that the picture had originally hamburg sued been sent from any Christian organization, then had someone else shared image so that it appeared to me. It was a photo of a group of dead people in a pile. The image was provided with a text: "Christians killed by Muslims." We know that many of our Christian faith siblings in Egypt has it terrible. They need our support, they need our voice, they need our prayers. The caption was in a way true. But still it made me depressed. And I will return to this later on.
Does it matter what we believe? There are se many other questions we could think about and that would be worth your own theme series. Such a question would of course be "Does it matter that we do?" And it is perhaps a bit more about what we actually mean by faith, and how believers we need to be, and if it is possible to grade the faith.
Some of it we will, in and of itself affect the worship service after next Sunday. But the headline that we have proposed for this theme the series as a whole, hamburg sued then, "Does it matter what we believe?" So this is more about the content of the faith. What a fine phrase called "dogma". Does it matter? Or is it as good to think a little about anything?
So does it matter what we believe? And then I think this: As long as we purport to be a Christian church there are a bunch of "stuff" that can not be thought away. I'm not saying that they may be thought away, but that they simply can not be thought away. These things might not faith itself, but they're like the stuff of Christian faith shaped by;, or perhaps we can say that they rather form the space in which Christian hamburg sued faith is.
Among the things hamburg sued which can not be thought away hear a seemingly obvious thing that world. It may seem so obvious that it does not even need to be said. But there is actually belief system where it is really not so clear that it is a reality, but that's all just an illusion. So: the world, existence, reality.
For what can not be thought away also includes God, and even God triune. Mind you: I did not now that to be a Christian, you must believe in the Trinity. hamburg sued I said that God is triune not liable away. And in what way I mean that God triune not liable away, I would probably have to devote an entire sermon to, but it is not this sermon ...
For what can not be thought away hear even the Church. And I do not mean in the first place how it should be organized, or what is a church, or that one must have a certain kind of membership. I mean just simply to Christian faith and Christian practice in any way is always a common thing with more than one self.
And what can not be thought away includes Bible - not least for the simple hamburg sued reason that it is in the Bible we hear about Jesus. And we also can not disconnect the Old Testament from the Bible because Jesus then becomes incomprehensible (there have been attempts, and always with anti-Semitism as a result).
World, God, church, the Bible ... It is of course not a comprehensive list. I most note that there is stuff that Christian beliefs are shaped by, or things / phenomena / entities forming the space in which Christian faith is - that the world, God, the Church, the Bible ...
And these "things" which are only in their rise rise to a variety of traditions, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, practices ... And they, in turn, form as well as the tremendous resources we have in the storage shed.
But, anyway: We can have access to everything in our store rooms, without really much of a difference anyway. Or that our construction of it is downright harmful. Harmful already for us who are involved in it, and harmful to our environment.
There's quite a few today who believe that religion is by definition harmful - not least the so-called organized religion. I do not agree with it. It can be harmful, but I do not think that religion itself is harmful. However it is a great responsibility on one or the other religion's practitioners what they do with the set they have in their particular store. But so also is it with people adhering to say atheism. There is a large