Christian Aphorisms -On Faith and Life- Robert Fullarton

Christian Aphorisms
-On Faith and Life- Robert Fullarton 

Copyright 2017

Puny ethical codes mean nothing without a principle and point of reference for which, morality has an eternal truth to, men these days are well able to promote such codes of conduct but for the standards of humanism, for political end, they are the see-through measures of policy and paper thin law, but have no radical heart nor power often behind them. Morality without God, is invented by wishful thinkers and subjective activists who butcher what they cannot stomach, namely that which judges them and all men alike. A truth is seen to be offensive by those more concerned with pleasing everyone and not fulfilling the truth in turn, they likewise seek not to offend anyone and therefore cannot live by the truth, because they cannot understand that the truth is in direct opposition to the proud man whose heart cant be humbled, because he will not sacrifice to God, what is God’s in the first place.

 Where the ancient societies of the Canaanites, the Phoenicians and Carthaginians offered their children to Moloch, Baal and Tanet, the God of the Hebrews, of the Christians and of the creation gave his son in our stead, the sacrifice he demands is that of giving life, courage and love in the face of the limitations of man’s heart.

The emotions we have, the feelings, the beliefs and sentiments are they not more than mere labels of information. Worship of knowledge without credible meaning or reason, what does it add to? The scientist he systematizes knowledge, it is a theory and not an experience to many, not something that pertains to an intelligent wish or great desire. Life itself, is called the senseless happening of accident, but man thinks his thoughts are sensible despite the paradoxical conclusion. He devalues life and his own life, he believes that he invented the rules, and wont concede his heart to the God he has denied. Man believes he has written the manual on life and that nothing can exist outside the terms given by the manual.

One needs only to read one’s bible at root and core to find the commands of the teacher and the master, to know the age old problem of man and the eternal solution acted out, lived and transformed.

Our lives need to be radical, as a radical love that warms the fringes of the cynic and makes him question his own motives and reasons for distaste with man and world combined.

Through the fire there is life, out of its smoke came a noble soul that was granted rest after the great labours and travails of the race of men, which endure, which rage, which are warring on through mind, body and soul, and seek rest to the point of spiritual decimation. One man’s morale can come to the point of such a decimation, as life seems to be baseless, hopeless, a taxing venture, a test concerning everything from which the mind can fathom and for those who are ignorant of such matters, life is a test no matter what they say and it is all this and more. We are so weary not so much in physical fatigue but when the belief of the individual cannot see resolution and confirmation that all their hopes will come to final expression. The finality of man is in the pre-existing mould, those of the world cannot understand why life began and why God begot their feelings, but call it a senseless mess and ceaselessly try to kill the hope that men have placed in the cause of heaven.

God’s ways to us, appear as riddles to us in action but in reality they are the perfection of his wisdom and his order in the chaos and the fear of men, that are fulfilled in perfection too.
Escapology comes with forgetting about the world; and even just a glimpse outside the world is akin to a holiday in paradise, where we breathe again, from having once been starved, suffocated, ostracised, bedraggled and straggled of love. Apathy is the air of civilization, which culminates in the construction of the steel city, whose life existence breathes loneliness. The Christian in contrast seeks a love that is beyond anything the city can offer, or what conventional man knows and believes!