A proper faith in Christ is one which is faithful to what he taught, it is active not passive, doing good instead of thinking one needs to do nothing. We should seek after that which is good and do it, resisting evil, allowing grace to be activated by our actions:
God created humanity good, which means, if they follow their nature, they will do what is good, which is what Abba Sarmatas implied when giving a Zen-like answer to a monk who asked him about eating and sleeping:
Human dignity is inherent to it, given to it by God; it is not dependent upon work, and those who try to make it dependent on work do so to exploit humanity. The dignity of work comes out of the dignity of the human person, just like the goodness of creation comes from God, and not the other way around:
The eschatological proclamation in the Nicene Creed, that Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead, when properly understood, represents another way the creed promotes Christ’s divinity:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2026/05/the-fathers-of-nicea-and-christs-kingdom/
Christ’s ascension is not about Christ flying up into space, it is about his entry into the kingdom of God, opening it to all creation; and we are told, as he ascended, so he shall come again to meet us in his second coming; we, there, learn something about the eschaton through it – but what is it do we learn?
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2026/05/reflections-after-paschaltide-2026-the-ascension/
At the Council of Jerusalem, we find the church coming together and deal with a conflict within the Christian community by engaging doctrinal development to come up with a solution:
>!If Fenric wants to play chess against the Doctor, why does Fenric try to have all the chess boards destroyed?!<
When the institutional church doesn’t do what it preaches, people will see the hypocrisy and it will turn many people away, which is what has happened after any of its many scandals, such as the way it dealt with the sex abuse scandal, but also, how it dealt with various forms of oppression throughout the years:
>!If Donna is so stuck in binary languages, shouldn't the Doctor go 010001000110111101101110011011100110000100100000011101110110100101101100011011000010000001100010011001010010000001110011011000010111011001100101011001000010111000100000010100110110000101110110011001010010000001000100011011110110111001101110011000010010111000100000010011010110000101100111011010010110001100100000010100110110001101110010011001010111011101100100011100100110100101110110011001010111001000101110001000000100000101101100011011000110111101101110011100110010110101111001and save her?!<
In what ways are we like the man born blind? What does that tell us about our walk with Christ and what he expect us to do?
>!Why doesn't the Doctor just say, "Dalek, you have been defeated. Surrender. You have failed. Your forces are destroyed. Your home planet a burnt cinder circling a dead sun. Even Davros, your creator, is dead. You have no superiors, no inferiors, no reinforcement, no hope, no rescue. You're trapped a trillion miles and a thousand years from a disintegrated home. I have defeated you. You no longer serve any purpose" and watch the Dalek self-destruct without doing anything? !<
>!Why was Peri so egotistical? !<
>!Did the Doctor tattoo himself in the TARDIS,and did he do such a poor job, he fell down in pain when he left the TARDIS?!<
>!What's the deal with the Doctor making faces at the end; does he die from indigestion?!<
>!That is not a police box; why did Ian and Barbara ever think it was with all that noise it was making? And how could they not realize a police box is not so big on the inside?!<
Christians are to be like Christ, loving everyone, even sinners, even those they would deem as their “enemies.” They are not to use the actions of others as justification to ignore Christ’s expectations for them:
Is it contradictory to say the fall of humanity it related to pride while saying the root of all evil is the love of money? And what makes avarice, or greed, such a grave sin?
When the Pope quoted Isaiah, warning warmongers God doesn’t take to bloodlust, the warmongers insisted the Pope didn’t know the Bible. Ridiculous. The war against Iran is wrong, and because of it, the United States will face all kinds of consequences for its actions. God isn’t going to help them unless they stop and repent.
When Jesus met the Samaritan woman by the well, he gave us a representation of the way he wanted to break through barriers. Men, women, Jews, Samaritans, Gentiles, they were all called by him. They are all offered the gift of the Spirit and the charisms which come from the Spirit. Why do Christians often forget this message?
Christians, sadly, often demonize non-Christians, doing so to justify acts of hate; they have rejected the way Christ told them to be, that is loving, and even helpful to all:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2026/04/we-must-resist-the-demonization-of-others/