It wasn t easy to understand then. It isn t easy to grasp now. Tell us plainly, they said. They begged for a straight answer. But there is none.
Faith begins where evidence gives out.
I and the Father are one. Say things like that today and you re committed to a mental hospital. But this bodacious claim by Jesus was kept alive because for some people it had the ring of truth not hard evidence, but the ring of truth. You see, this shocking claim wasn t laughed entirely off the face of the earth as lunacy because enough people sensed that the way of Jesus not the dogma that would follow him, mind you, but his way of living , the way of Jesus, to love, to heal, to befriend, to work for justice, to forgive over and over again is truly the one and only way to really, really live on this earth. I and God are one suggests, in part, that you might hear the voice just about anytime, anywhere through anyone or anything.