Wrestling with God

Exodus from Fundamentalism | Courage over fear | Knowledge over ignorance | Love over hate | Justice over power | Understanding over despair

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
 Baruch Spinoza

"So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” I will not let you go, Jacob replied, unless you bless me. The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered, Jacob. "No longer will your name be Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men and have prevailed” (Gen. 32:24-28).

It is one thing to believe in the theological Jesus and quite another to follow the historical Jesus. Believing is one thing. Picking up your cross and following is another.