The Christian Humanist

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Is it possible to be a Christian without a belief in God?  I believe the answer is yes, that in our time being a Christian without a concept of God is both possible and necessary for those who find the life and teachings of Jesus compelling but have difficulty with the concept of God in traditional Christian theology.  The various articles on this website argue in favor of a non-theistic form of Christianity that is reasonably called Christian Humanism. 

Given the fundamental premise of traditional Christian theology that we cannot bridge the gap to god with philosophy or science, that we cannot know god except through Jesus, that at least part of the meaning of the Trinity in Christian theology is that Jesus is god in the flesh living among us, and given our difficulty with that premise and our suspicion about the possibility of any meaningful talk about god, it may seem a stretch to talk about non-theistic Christianity but it is that improbability to which I have come in my search for a meaningful and rational basis for a personal faith. 

I locate my particular religious perspective within the general framework of Christianity but I do so without any related concept of God in the traditional theistic sense of what that term means to most people who identify themselves as Christians.  It is a position that I reached reluctantly, partly because I find language about god troublesome at best, but primarily because I am convinced that there was something unique about Jesus and his teaching that challenged the conventional wisdom and religious assumptions of his day with a timeless critique that even today continues to speak to something higher and better in us and challenges us to become better than we are.

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