Masks of God

Re Core Beliefs, March
It is generally true that when people refer to myth, they are referring to fantastic tales in ancient times, or a-once-upon-a-time-land, but this conception of myth must give way to the earnest study of myth by people like Joseph Campbell who endeavour to penetrate the meaning of myth and what lies behind it.
C.S. Lewis speaks of truth at an unconscious level, at a place not in history but in our mind. Christianity is a mask of God; metaphors through which we wish to grasp reality; stories of humanity's struggles to explain itself in an unknown cosmos. I do not believe them to be illusions but we must place the correct interpretation on them for the conclusions to which they point.
Science is too young, it has much to learn. It is like an impetuous and precocious child that makes pronouncements on the nature of reality; it is a wonderful instrument for discovery of the truth but still in its infancy.
Christianity stands, as always, at a crossroads, caught between literalism and metaphor, unable as yet to make the transition between them. The significance of Jesus in history will eventually be replaced by an explanation of what he really means; to see him as an agency for understanding God.
Knowledge and faith, both proclaim, “Christ is Risen.”