Conversion

During my recent readings in the Bible and searchings for the meaning of life, I wondered exactly what it was that propelled Christianity from an outcast religion to a true power in the Roman Empire and beyond. Maybe the key to what I was looking for lay in that. I thought long and hard about what I had read in the Gospels.

Then, it struck me. It must have been the analogy between God and a loving father. OK, I might seem a little slow to some of you, but hear me out.

Growing up with this idea makes it seem like no big deal to many of us, but let's put ourselves in the shoes of the Romans. Their gods were sort of like larger than life humans with larger than life bad habits who did not care much for humans. Although the myths are good stories, there is not much to hang your hat on there about the meaning of life.

The picture of God related by Jesus (and even the earlier, standard Jewish one) was certainly a big improvement. Add in all the good Jesus stories, and things all start to make sense - about what the Romans saw and maybe what I am looking for in my search. Sort of a restart with the fundamentals and go from there perhaps for my part.

Maybe in the fairly empty age we find ourselves in, we need to consider this message that God is a loving father and all that flows from that and get with the program.