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Christian belief includes a vast “unseen realm”
The fifth post in the series on the Good, or benefits, of the Christian faith. Here we look at a controversial topic: the existence of a vast unseen realm as included in the Biblical story. I will comment further on this issue in an upcoming section on “The Bad” of Christianity.
The proposition to be supported here:
It is better to believe that there is an “unseen realm,” a reality beyond this which humans can and have accessed directly through their unconscious or their spirits, and this unseen realm can account for some of the mysteries of life.
The supernatural has been driven from polite conversation. That’s an overstatement but the dominance of the atheist-physicalist worldview in our culture, insisted upon by our primary cultural drivers of education and media, requires serious discussion of the supernatural to be reserved for quiet, almost whispering conversations among those who share beliefs and ideas that go beyond physicalism.
Even within current Christianity, sermons, articles and online content about angels, demons, the powers and principalities of Paul, the “council of heaven” in the book of Job are generally avoided. Anyone who would treat such ideas as real in the sense of going beyond symbol, myth or historical notions, is likely to be seen as naive and uneducated. Most…
