The Path

It is one thing to put on the mind of Christ and another thing to believe in theological statements about Christ.  The path of putting on the mind of Christ you get only from deep prayer and praxis.  You cannot think your way to it.  You become changed if you put on the mind of Christ.  A belief in a creed you can pick up in catechism class or read and think your way to it.  Jesus died and saved you from you sins is a doctrine about Jesus.  I doubt it changes many people.  They know about Jesus, but do not become Jesus.  Reading, thinking, reasoning is so western and we are western.  But Jesus was not from Rome.  He did not say any of the things about himself that we believe in our Creed.  He did say a lot of other things.  Do we ignore what he said because we do not want to change?  And if we just read but not meditate deeply on what he said, we will probably try to fit it into our mental beliefs, because we just don't want to change.