I feel grateful that my "disillusioning process," though painful when it came to how it played out in community, was gentle and mind-blowing as it related to the beauty of God and what we have in him. I always have a hard time explaining in a logical way how I see things differently now, and especially struggle to do so succinctly and especially with reference to a bigger picture of Scripture, history, language, and scholarship. It has been something I "know" but seeing it explained so well and as a "bigger, better" version of the story is so helpful for having conversations about it.
I love how you described your experience as both "gentle" and "mind-blowing" :)
I don't think you're alone in sometimes struggling to find good words to articulate these shifts - I think a lot of people experience some loss of language because it was the earlier small paradigms that first gave us religious language structures.
I feel grateful that my "disillusioning process," though painful when it came to how it played out in community, was gentle and mind-blowing as it related to the beauty of God and what we have in him. I always have a hard time explaining in a logical way how I see things differently now, and especially struggle to do so succinctly and especially with reference to a bigger picture of Scripture, history, language, and scholarship. It has been something I "know" but seeing it explained so well and as a "bigger, better" version of the story is so helpful for having conversations about it.
I love how you described your experience as both "gentle" and "mind-blowing" :)
I don't think you're alone in sometimes struggling to find good words to articulate these shifts - I think a lot of people experience some loss of language because it was the earlier small paradigms that first gave us religious language structures.