What an amazing thread.Thanks! Yeah, I am already reading from the Bible, but having some larger context helps. I've read and really enjoyed Mere Christianity for example, so I'm always looking for what others recommend when it comes to Christianity.
I'm a Christian, but I'm at the beginning of my journey. I don't think I adhere to any denomination. Technically, I was born an Orthodox Christian, but I can't say I identify with it. The way I see it Christianity should be an open brotherhood, and I don't find the whole denomination thing very helpful. So I'm looking to deepen my knowledge of God and Christianity through whatever sources other people have found useful.
That's why I've asked @Kak and anyone else really who is more experienced in the faith
Have a look at this great book on the physical embodiment of Christian experience during The Middle Ages in Europe.. The focus is eating and fasting:
You're understand why eating lentils or eating on Friday was as invigorating as the 75 Hard Challenge care of @Fox .
Christian and Jewish traditional practice involves physical, empirical, bodily experience on a fundamental level.
For Jews the spirit is pure, and thus purifies the body that's dirtied in everyday life.
For Christians the spirit is born into sin and or contaminated even earlier in the moment of conception, and so the body brings purity to the spirit (as in baptismal purification or communion).
Orthodox Jews say a prayer over the washing of hands - pure spirit blessing physical existence.
Christians perform righteous acts or penance, acts of forgiveness or prayers to cleanse the soul of sins. Christian behavior cleanses the soul. Christian deep sea fishermen or hunters often pray before the event so that the experience will be cleansing. Judaism has the opposite: soulful prayers protect trees. crops, newborns, homes.
Orthodox Jews perform good acts, mitzvah, to correct the imperfections the world's they are responsible for causing. Spirit drives evil from the world.
These dynamics of purification mostly flow in completely opposite directions depending on whether you are Jewish or Christian, but G-d is the same for both.
Cool, right?
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