schemas of salvation

"For God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise "(I Cor. 1:27).

In the religio-spiritual realm, the wise lay out wonderful schemas of understanding of God and God's plan, and that is what they are -- wonderful schemas. Many roses bloom but none is designed to be a foundation upon which to build.

Our brains hard-wire into a schema we have been taught and we continue to choose and amplify. We say that and that alone is the Truth and spurn all other schemas as apostasy. This is the way of humans, to seek certainty and solidity within a form, while the way of angels and of spirit is to rejoice in boundless openness. With humans, rejoicing in boundless openness is not seen as the way of the wise, but as the way of fools.

"If any among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise" (I Cor. 3:18).

Salvational Christianity, Salvational Islam, Salvational Judaism, Salvational Buddhism, Salvational Atheism, and so on (look in the Yellow Pages for a listing of all the ways of salvation) are clung to by their adherents. But at the heart of any schema worthy of its salvational salt, its true test, no matter the degree of conceptual overlay and tortuous metaphysics, is the interwhirling power we call love. And love is a very foolish thing indeed. Love knows no schema.