I know that some of the things I wrote in the Prologue raise some questions about my theology, and that people are going to want to know my beliefs so they can decide if I'm a heretic or not. The fact of the matter is that I don't care very much about tightly defining my theology these days, because I've seen how much my theology has evolved over the years and am pretty sure it will continue to evolve. Therefore I'm not too concerned with taking a stand on most theological issues. Free will or predestination? If you have to have an answer, I'd say they're both true.

The Bible's really confusing, and is full of paradoxes and a lot of contradictory stuff, and our ability to figure it all out is actually really limited, so I'm personally not real concerned with nailing down my positions on most theological matters. I love reading or hearing the theories on different sides of an issue, but I usually don't feel the need to pitch my tent in any particular camp. .

My approach to theology these days is much more simple than it used to be, or at least I'm attempting to make it so. I'm trying to simply focus on understanding Jesus as much as I am able. I could study the Gospels for the next fifty years and still not fully grasp or be able to live out everything Jesus says in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, so I've decided to focus there and spend less time trying to figure out the rest of the Bible for the time being. I love a good debate, but instead of choosing a side I think I'll just listen in as the experts carry out their discourse. In the meantime, I'm just going to try and learn and absorb as much as I can about what Jesus says and try and keep things as simple as I possibly can. Which should be plenty challenging, given what deep and mind-blowing things Jesus says.

So, yeah. I'll continue to read books and blogs about faith and theology and be fascinated by the ideas, but I'm not going to worry too much anymore about coming to the one right conclusion, because it seems to me that most issues don't have one right conclusion.

All that said, I do sometimes discuss social and theological issues on my blog, especially when they're ones to which it seems the teachings of Jesus can be applied directly. So you may get glimpses of my current beliefs there from time to time. But usually I'll be asking questions more than stating positions.