This is the message we have heard from
him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If
we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do
not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7
This is how I
distinguish dreaming and waking. When I am awake I can, in some degree, account
for and study my dream. The dragon that pursued me last night can be fitted
into my waking world. I know that there are such things as dreams; I know that
I had eaten an indigestible dinner; I know that a man of my reading might be
expected to dream of dragons. But while in the nightmare I could not have
fitted in my waking experience. The waking world is judged more real because it
can thus contain the dreaming world; the dreaming world is judged less real
because it cannot contain the waking one. For the same reason I am certain that
in passing from the scientific points of view to the theological, I have passed
from dream to waking. Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and
the sub-Christian religions. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of
these things, not even science itself.
I believe in Christianity as I believe
that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see
everything else.
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