Are rituals wrong numbers to God? They can be, but rejecting all rituals for that reason is like not dialing any number at all. We end up with the same result as when we dialed – we stay disconnected. To connect properly, we need to find the right number by consulting the appropriate authoritative book, the phone directory. For connecting with God, we need to learn the right rituals by referring to the appropriate authoritative book, scripture. Scripture offers us much more than does a directory. By studying scripture, we can understand much more than just which ritual to perform – we can understand why to perform it and how it works. When people don’t have scriptural knowledge, they can’t differentiate between proper rituals that actually connect them with God and improper rituals that have come up by concoction and become established as convention. That is, they can’t understand the difference between the right number and the wrong number. As such a state of affairs is widespread in today’s society, there’s an urgent need for systematic scriptural education. But if instead we indulge, as does PK, in simplistic denunciation of all rituals based on naive caricatures of some rituals, then that’s like rejecting all numbers as wrong because some numbers don’t work. Such caricature-centered derision of rituals is the surest way of keeping people perpetually disconnected from God, for it is like telling people to never dial again for the fear of dialing a wrong number.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 04:36:52 +0000
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