About Christ

Whether Christianity improves people is a question that has never been asked during the first 18 centuries of Christianity. In the XVIII century, the question was asked: “Does the progress of the development of morality contribute to” (Russo received a prize for his essay on this topic). The question of Christianity only repeats the issue of progress. The problem is not that the question itself itself is too pragmatic, but that it is insufficient pragmatic. After all, it is understood that Christianity should improve Christians. The church turns out to be something like a corral, where special conditions contain experimental, the rest of the people - a control group ...

An inexperienced Christian begins to climb out of his skin, proving that - yes, how it improves! Poor skin ... It is impossible to prove a lie, and you can pile up sophisms a lot. All of them come down to the thesis of Lewis - who, like too many apologists, considered himself a lawyer of God, which in itself is noble, only they considered God a similar to the defendant, to whom the lawyer forbade to speak. Purely English legal proceedings. Lewis even wrote an essay about God on the bench. Lewis suggested taking into account the difference at the start - they say, maybe a Christian is no better than a non -Christian, but a Christian without Christianity would be much worse! I would be a bum in a bum!

From an Orthodox point of view, all this is empty. How can you even raise the question of whether Christianity improves people, if the further, the deeper the repentance, so you look before death - and you are the first of the sinners! Or the last one, which side of the coffin is to watch.

The Lord Jesus Christ came not to improve people. He did not say: "My students, be perfect!" He addressed all the Israelis, urging them to compete with the Gentiles, but at the same time he did not say that the Gentiles were excluded from the competition. Against! God carries salvation to everyone, although not to everyone suddenly and at once. Improving believers, leaving unbelievers to rot - not only unsportscatively, but also impractical, it is like cutting pieces more poolly from them from dilapidated clothes and trying to sew a non -woven chiton out of them.

Christ saves not Christians, but humanity. Therefore, triumphalism is absurd, painting a story in the form of a victorious procession of believers among unbelievers crying from despair and sores. Therefore, on the other hand, dedication is absurd when the Christian asks with bewilderment, but where, in fact, the church ... not in Christians, arbitrarily saints, must peer, but in Christ - then everything will become, if not clear, it is light.

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