There must be more to life then mere subtleties; more then the emptiness of simply being nice and fitting the mould so heavily placed on us...
Is this our design? Was Jesus merely a nice guy?
What is there apart from the caricature of goodness; are we once again cultivated by, and thrown headstrong into a locus of fear; fear to go beyond the subtleties, to push ourselves back into a realm beyond merely existing? Surely there has to be more to life then existence; then the confines of excessive good and its many limitations as enforced by the common stereotypical schemata that Christians so readily accept. “Be like Christ”, “pursue holiness”, “Be perfect as God is perfect”. Does it say anywhere in scripture that we aught limit ourselves to being nothing more then nice? Yes, it is said that we do things all to the glory of God, but who is to say that we resist the image of God placed on us as humanity from the beginning of time? Niceness, and anything in relation certainly has its place but what of these gifted passions and desires that God has placed so deeply within us? What is authenticity? What is a man? A man cannot and is not restricted to being just a nice guy. Anyone who would view Jesus as nothing but a nice guy in character has a very skewed view of Christianity.
Jesus took great risks, Jesus was aggressive when the time called for it, Jesus’ life was an adventure. Is this a fitting description that is fully encompassed by the “nice guy” mentality? Or when faced with risk, does the nice guy in a sense, smooth off all the sharp edges, and limit his surroundings to that which is horridly safe? There is no passion or authenticity in that. What is found is a hollow emptiness that resorts to subtlety as a means of safety and a catering to fear that builds more and more in the dark recesses of their minds.
I will continue to update as I discover more about this.
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