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Introduction	The teachings of Jesus do not have as an emphasis the great ideas of theology (God, Man, Heaven, Hell, etc.), nor the purported frameworks of salvation, nor the concerted "reasonings-together" of religious thinkers, nor the wrestling-bouts with sin that can occupy our daily discourse and activities, but rather the momentary pilings-up of unbidden experience to which we respond before we can grasp them. We don't know why we respond as we do--or, rather, why our responses can leave us asking ourselves, "Why?" This is the experience-realm of shadows through which the teachings of Jesus guide us, with the shadows themselves the divinely-bestowed architecture of that necessary realm, even as the denominations distract and drain us with fantasies of the Christian Life of assurance and light. On the contrary, the experience-realm of shadows being co-equal with light, and of trust burgeoning prior to understood assurance, is the realm of the newborn, and this realm necessary to our salvation is, as we will see, the only realm in which the teachings of Jesus make sense.

Introduction

The teachings of Jesus do not have as an emphasis the great ideas of theology (God, Man, Heaven, Hell, etc.), nor the purported frameworks of salvation, nor the concerted "reasonings-together" of religious thinkers, nor the wrestling-bouts with sin that can occupy our daily discourse and activities, but rather the momentary pilings-up of unbidden experience to which we respond before we can grasp them. We don't know why we respond as we do--or, rather, why our responses can leave us asking ourselves, "Why?" This is the experience-realm of shadows through which the teachings of Jesus guide us, with the shadows themselves the divinely-bestowed architecture of that necessary realm, even as the denominations distract and drain us with fantasies of the Christian Life of assurance and light. On the contrary, the experience-realm of shadows being co-equal with light, and of trust burgeoning prior to understood assurance, is the realm of the newborn, and this realm necessary to our salvation is, as we will see, the only realm in which the teachings of Jesus make sense.