Luke 11:23a (NRSV) Whoever is not with me is against me. . .“Whoever is not with me is against me,” Jesus said.
That dictum sends a bunch of questions spinning through my head,
because to John he said, “Who’s not against you is for you,”
and I have trouble seeing how both sayings can be true.
Yet each of them, when taken by itself, makes sense to me.
My problem is what each implies about neutrality.
The first suggests one can’t be neutral, when it comes to Christ.
But from the other I deduce neutral’s not anti-Christ.
When one has wrestled with the texts, it should be plain to see
this is another paradox, a true antinomy.
The better part of wisdom is to let it stand at that,
instead of flying by it like a verbal acrobat.
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