Many of us learned Christianity through fear long before we were old enough to examine what we were being taught.
Fear of hell.
Fear of questioning.
Fear of getting God wrong.
Fear of disappointing God.
Fear that doubt itself might be dangerous.
Eventually, fear can become so intertwined with faith that we have trouble imagining one without the other.
But what if we read it differently?
What if questioning isn’t evidence that we’re moving away from God—but sometimes the way we begin separating God from everything we’ve been told about God?
From The Allegory of the Cross: Sophia Rising from the Cave — Author’s Revision:
“We were not born afraid of the light. We learned to be.”
“In our longing for certainty, we have accepted shadows as truth, obedience as holiness, and fear as faith. The deeper tragedy is not that we lived in caves, but that we were taught the cave was sacred.”
Maybe faith doesn’t require us to be afraid of the questions.
Maybe some questions are how we finally begin walking toward the light.
What belief about God did you inherit that you eventually had to examine for yourself?
From The Allegory of the Cross: Sophia Rising from the Cave — Author’s Revision
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