The Worst Theologian

Thursday night, I went to the Michigan State library to meet my girlfriend. She watched a vegan Youtuber, I read a book. We're two different types of people, yet we still make it work somehow. It's seriously weird. She's almost the complete opposite of me in every way! She's the embodiment of Beauty, Love, and everything nice. But, now I'm sidetracking. After I took her back to her dorm, I decided to stay in the library and write my paper for my Western Religions class. My paper's title (right now) is, "Three Views of Mystical Union: Engulfed Unity, Perfected (or Perfecting Unity) and Distinctive Unity". In this paper, I try to compare and contrast three seemingly different articulations and argue that they are expressing the same thing in different words.  In the middle of writing the paper, around 4:30 am, I fell asleep. I woke up three hours later at 7:30. As I woke up, I decided to walk down the stairs, looking the Thriller music video, to ...

In my last blogpost, I mentioned that I wanted to start relationships with 4 others. I gave two of them: God and you, the readers. At the end of the post, I said that I hoped for the two others to show up in the next post, which is this one. However, I took on a way bigger task than I had initially thought. And because of it being larger than my life at the moment, I have to postpone naming those 2 others until I'm comfortable doing the task. With that in mind, let me start this blog off right! Name of the blog "The Worst Theologian" is the personal blog of Christian Guild (me). It's given that title because I'll never be a good theologian. I know that sounds self-critical, but I don't think I'll ever be a "good" theologian. I say that because God is so unknowable, yet knowable at the same time, that I'll never be ably to study the Divine, in the truest sense. The only way to really express the Divine is through metaphor - whether tha...

Although I am not Troy or Gabriella , I am on the verge of a new relationship. This relationship will hopefully take the form of agape love, which our dearly beloved Wikipedia defines as, "[embracing] a universal, unconditional love that transcends, that serves regardless of circumstances." And who might this relationship be with? Well, there's 2 (or 3 or 4) people/groups I am willing to show an unconditional love. 1. God, of course! Having a relationship with reality itself better be unconditional. I mean, the only reason I, or you, or anything, exists is because of this immanent Being . Being  as in Being Itself  or, in other worlds, Reality, The Ground of Existence, existence itself.  That is what God is. God is all-in-all, and yet unknowable. Transcendent, yet immanent. And this guiding force, acts out of love, and is love itself. Therefore, the Ultimate , not only includes our own ideas of agape, but transcends it. 2. You, the Readers! As a newer blogger,...