@J @cajax @hidden @snacks you can read any aspect of Christianity through the lens of tradition, but you're still making the choice to read it that way (historically) rather than another way (theologically, philosophically, poetically, etc.). i recognize my personal relationship with Christ is instantiated within the tradition of Christianity, but like, when I've had visions of Christ, I've derived no extra special meaning from comparing what I've heard to Christian history, or the gospels, or whatever. I personally just think Christ and God are real, that my visions can be understood as psychological historically-instantiated phenomena, but that they are also real encounters with an extra-historical existence, so on the one hand it's tradition, on the other hand it's other things