My Faith, Your Faith, Their Faith, Our Faith Poem by Long Tooth

Wow! Another great title; I've faith you'll agree,
but we're just on line two now! Whole poem? (We'll see!)
One's faith's truth can't be fact! If it is, then Faith's dead!
And God weeps, for this thought makes Christ toast in Man's head!
I choose faith just by faith, not in wisdom because
who but fool would proclaim 'I've discovered God's laws, '
or he groks ‘Word of God' in some intimate way?
God's Truth's always a gift though Man's 'King for a Day! '

Sure, the Bible may hint at what's true and what's not,
but one note's not symphonic! One chord's much more hot!
Are you God? Where's your hint Evolution is through?
Are two books of the Bible 'Sufficient? ' If true,
might 'Necessity' still have 'Wise Cracks' that need paste? (1)
Just how long's one 'God Day' in 'Man Years' in God's taste?
Friend, it's sick to think your faith's more pleasing to God!
Man's good works sop for braggarts, large peas in small pod!

Is there ‘Christian' alive who dreams brothers in Christ
all are born with a skin that's not colored, that tryst
out of wedlock birthed Savior who died to bring Grace
to creation (and called Man's best plans to save face
sin's 'Good Works! ') Is there something I've missed
to feel more shame about? Sin's dark henchmen, we've kissed
where the sun cannot shine. Yet, Christ's light is what saves
though we're drowning in lies and we drift toward lost graves.

There's no judgment in Christ, as one saved in His Name,
for a Saint is a Saint though looks/acts aren't the same.
So, what role does Faith play then that Christ's words enjoin
us leave pride's works behind? Works are symbols, realm's coin,
of a world we must leave for a heavenly home
that Christ swears will await us (eternal, 'Shalom! ')
If we boast who believe Him, let's die in that sin (2)
and choose life as a servant, have faith that's a win!


Long Tooth
December 8 of 2022
Poet's Notes:
What 'Christian' can have true faith who insists that other's faith is wrong and moreover, that they are serving God by insisting that you agree with them or risk being imprisoned and/or put to death? What a self-serving hypocrisy they exhibit in my opinion! Is that love? Really?
(1) Science seems to offer us a lot of evidence that creation (if not God) finds a lot of pleasure in mathematics. In the more abstract, perhaps, god-like world of mathematics something is considered proven true if the logic presented is demonstrably both 'Necessary and Sufficient! '
(2) Galatians 6: 14 'May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.' To which I pray, 'Amen! '