Christianity is not a 'balanced' based 'religion' it is a Faith based 'religion'. Jesus said "who so ever believes in me shall not taste death but shall have everlasting (eternal) life" (John Chp 3v15)
This is the eighteenth meditation in our version of Counting the Omer and is dedicated to the Netzach of Tiphareth. That is to say: the aspect of the Divine that always demanding more from us within the balance point between heaven and earth which is beauty. To me, that is resilient coherence.
I am not sure what you think "balanced based religion" means, but Tiphareth is the balance point in the Tree of Life and its harmony and beauty collects all that comes before it and all that comes after it.
Balance is an essential element of faith, because faith must be shaped by wisdom, testing all things and holding to what is true, not because it is written in a book, but because it can be tested and proven.
The Cosmic Christ is central to Creation Spirituality. He is the living Word of whom Paul says, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross (Colossians 1:15-20)."
All things are reconciled through the sacrifice of the cross, and I wrote about that in the Paschal Gospel. But I think you may be responding to a point I’m not actually making.
Nothing in this piece is arguing against faith or replacing it with “balance.” What I’m describing is what happens when that faith is alive rather than static.
In John 15, Jesus doesn’t describe belief as something rigid or fixed. He describes a living relationship: vine and branches, growth, pruning, fruit. That imagery assumes change, responsiveness, and ongoing participation in the life of the source.
The concern I’m naming is that it’s possible to emphasize belief in a way that becomes closed off, resistant to growth, or unable to be challenged. That kind of rigidity isn’t faithfulness. It’s brittleness.
When I talk about coherence or balance, I’m not talking about earning anything. I’m talking about staying connected to the life that allows faith to remain alive under pressure rather than collapsing or hardening.
So I don’t see this as faith versus something else. I see it as the difference between a faith that is living and adaptive, and one that risks becoming rigid and unable to receive anything new.
If the vine is alive, the branches don’t stay the same.
Christianity is not a 'balanced' based 'religion' it is a Faith based 'religion'. Jesus said "who so ever believes in me shall not taste death but shall have everlasting (eternal) life" (John Chp 3v15)
This is the eighteenth meditation in our version of Counting the Omer and is dedicated to the Netzach of Tiphareth. That is to say: the aspect of the Divine that always demanding more from us within the balance point between heaven and earth which is beauty. To me, that is resilient coherence.
I am not sure what you think "balanced based religion" means, but Tiphareth is the balance point in the Tree of Life and its harmony and beauty collects all that comes before it and all that comes after it.
Balance is an essential element of faith, because faith must be shaped by wisdom, testing all things and holding to what is true, not because it is written in a book, but because it can be tested and proven.
The Cosmic Christ is central to Creation Spirituality. He is the living Word of whom Paul says, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross (Colossians 1:15-20)."
All things are reconciled through the sacrifice of the cross, and I wrote about that in the Paschal Gospel. But I think you may be responding to a point I’m not actually making.
Nothing in this piece is arguing against faith or replacing it with “balance.” What I’m describing is what happens when that faith is alive rather than static.
In John 15, Jesus doesn’t describe belief as something rigid or fixed. He describes a living relationship: vine and branches, growth, pruning, fruit. That imagery assumes change, responsiveness, and ongoing participation in the life of the source.
The concern I’m naming is that it’s possible to emphasize belief in a way that becomes closed off, resistant to growth, or unable to be challenged. That kind of rigidity isn’t faithfulness. It’s brittleness.
When I talk about coherence or balance, I’m not talking about earning anything. I’m talking about staying connected to the life that allows faith to remain alive under pressure rather than collapsing or hardening.
So I don’t see this as faith versus something else. I see it as the difference between a faith that is living and adaptive, and one that risks becoming rigid and unable to receive anything new.
If the vine is alive, the branches don’t stay the same.