Christianity Today: East and West on 遠志明

Listening to Yuan Zhi Ming's testimony, I noticed the danger of today's Christianity on both sides.

While the West makes Christianity their heritage - "I am Christian because my parents are Christians, because my people, my kind are Christians";

The Chinese, mostly under some famous influence such as 遠志明, 倪柝聲, etc. say Christianity is the conversion from a proud person to a humble person: To admit one is a sinner because all are sinners. Confession without repentance. So, in many cases, their past rebellious attitude may still remain justified - it is merely suppressed with..."humility". Someone has put it rightly "they destroy rationality with rationalism". In a way, their pride has  doubled equivacably. Which is why I wasn't surprised when I later heard 遠志明 (after his conversion to Christianity) said "我是學哲學出生，辯論起來神學本身就是沒有根據的。。。它怎麼能符合哲學中的邏輯呢？它不符合。但是它符合我們心靈的邏輯。。。"

In such matter, it is interesting. So what happens to Yuan? He can accept the term "theology", but not in the usual sense. His 'theology' is anything but philosophical. Why? Because philosphy is one of his masters in his heart. In order to want this 'humble' other religion, he made an extra throne, instead of having to replace his original master - human rationalism.

Consequently, Mr. Yuan has to live with two masters. I will not consider him as cult at this point. However, I would say his masters are 1. his proud philosophical achievement, 2. The psychological ideology he obtained via the shadow of Christianity.

Therefore it is also no wonder, a lot of his theology is irrational. Such as the fake claim of some Chinese characters' Biblical origin and his attempt to marry Lao Zhi with Christianity. Though I have yet to discover this, I'm sure there are many non-christian chinese scholars being offended by his shallow achievement in philosophy and psychology.

Then why is he so famous? Simple, humility is still a hot show in China, not to mention Christianity, despite some twisted corruption to it, still has the front row seats.