Those with the ocular medical condition known as myopia typically can see nearby objects clearly but distant objects appear blurred.
In terms of Christianity, as illustrated from the missal story above, there is a tendency to think that what a person believes now as “true Christianity” is precisely what Jesus taught, what the apostles taught, and what every faithful and true Christian has ever believed.
This way of thinking blurs the vision when it attempts to look down the corridors of time, back to the distant past and into cultures very different from those of modern times.
Christianity has never been “one thing” or “one true set of doctrines,” as much as some may wish to comfort themselves with such beliefs.
Even in modern times and among the strictest of traditionalist
Christian denominations, there are varieties of theological and
doctrinal positions, even if those positions are made to look less
diverse by institutional unity, as with Roman Catholicism, or by a kind
of cultural unity, as with Protestant fundamentalism....<<<Read More>>>...
