Holy: Understanding it Better Through Understanding Uncertainty

The fiscal cliff that we are told will arrive at the beginning of this next year is causing a lot of jitters and volatility in the markets.  But even now it is wrecking havoc due to the uncertainty of whether it will happen or not.  The main concern of the financial experts is that what is weighing on things now is the uncertainty that exists until this issue is addressed.  People are waiting until all the uncertainty is out of the market.  So it is not just the fiscal cliff that is harmful, it is also the uncertainty associated with it.  This is also true for the uncertainty about the meaning of holy.  It can be paralyzing.  It can make things volatile.  It can cause people to wait and to wait and to wait, when action is needed.  So why not address it? 

I have tried to address the issue of uncertainty on the topic of what holy means, yet still the issue is pushed off to the future based on the scholarly activity that is not happening to address the uncertainty.  Some Christians are unwilling to commit to any course until the uncertainty is removed.  It is not just financial markets that function this way.  It is also influencing the spiritual atmosphere as well. 

There is a time for concealing and there is a time for revealing.  I have chosen to see our time as a time for revealing and removing the uncertainty that exists about the meaning of holy rather than concealing it. 

Many books cover the topic of holy and conceal the uncertainty by default.  But in many ways this is like pushing the fiscal cliff further out there.  Spiritually, Christianity is being faced with its own dire spiritual cliff.  The uncertainty can't be concealed once it is let out the hat and yet some scholarship by default conceals the uncertainty of the meaning of holy by trying to push back into the pandora's box after it has been opened. 

People are waiting for the uncertainty involved in the meaning of holy to be addressed and removed.  They can see the attempts to push it back into the box as a failure.  The point is they are waiting for a solution.  So they are not committing, not acting and not choosing.  That is harmful.  We cannot ask people to wait forever.  When will scholars get together instead of forcing onto others an endless waiting game where uncertainty itself is dangerous?   

We cannot afford to endlessly wait anymore than an economic system can keep pushing back a fiscal cliff.  At some point that is sooner rather than later, a solution must be drawn up that eliminates at least a good measure of uncertainty and volatility among those who hold to differing views.  Can we afford to not know the meaning with certainty for the second most important word in the entire biblical text? 

I don't think we can do this endlessly and yet how different is our situation from that of the economy in relation to an uncertain fiscal cliff?  Can we say that 7%, 25%, 55%, etc. certainty is good enough?  Would it not be better to remove the uncertainty, when it can be done in fairly quick order?  That is what I wish I could do and yet so often I see the uncertainty of the situation lead to delays rather than fast action.  Endless, endless, endless delays without and end in sight.    

When will the uncertainty end?   When will we have exhausted the many days of that are given to us?  I don't know, but I think it best to think of today as the day to at least commit to end the uncertainty and not tomorrow.  Tomorrow might be too late and waiting and waiting and waiting is not the thing to do, when tomorrow may be just that.  It is not wise in the area of economics.  Is it any wiser in the area of spiritual salvation? 

Do you enjoy the idea of maybe falling off a cliff?  I don't.  I'm out to avoid it.  I want not only to know what holy means, but to also end the effects of the weight of uncertainty.  I want to end  it as soon as possible.  Let's join together and get it done.  Thank you for taking the time to read this entry on my blog. 


Sincerely,

Jon