Western Theology: A Religion of Guilt, Not Healing

Lessons from Delusion

October 16, 2025

Western Christianity replaced the hospital of souls with a courtroom. It sees man not as sick, but as guilty; God not as the physician, but as the offended judge. The result is a religion of anxiety, not restoration. When salvation is reduced to legal pardon, grace becomes a transaction. Christs Cross is explained as payment, not healing. This view offers relief from fear, but not transformation of life. It makes man forgiven yet unchanged — declared righteous, but still corrupt inside. Orthodoxy teaches that Christ entered death to destroy it, not to appease wrath. The problem was not Gods anger, but mans decay. Through union with the risen Christ, the soul is cleansed and renewed. Forgiveness is not a document; it is recovery. This difference shapes everything: prayer becomes healing, not pleading; confession becomes medicine, not trial; repentance becomes joy, not despair. A man who understands this no longer trembles before a judge, but bows before his Healer.