3/ God becomes belief, doctrine, explanation, hope or destination: something affirmed about reality rather than encountered in reality. Perhaps the deeper problem is not merely what we believe about God, but what we have come to mean by reality itself.
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1/3 Belief can be a closed system—internally coherent, emotionally satisfying, socially functional—requiring no actual encounter with anything beyond itself. It can metabolize scripture, doctrine, practice, even suffering, without ever cracking open. Belief is only ever a map.
@Plough 2/ Faith is the territory. What Jesus came to teach was an experiential crossing—access to mystery, intelligence, power, telos—arriving not as doctrine but as immanent Kingdom. Faith is not belief refined, but reality opened. Enacted, it opens upon a different order of being.
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