Yes, overthinking has robbed the Tories of Christ’s glories. Don’t let it rob YOU. Be like myself and others who take Scripture for what it says.

The lesson today is to read the Word of God as a child, taking the natural reading while refusing to import into the text any foreign elements or fanciful philosophies. We must remember that what we call “the Scriptures” (Paul’s writings, specifically) were letters written to people who heard the letter read in their living-room Bible study. They would obviously be employing a natural, unforced understanding of the letter. No one was calling a halt to the proceedings in order to break down every one of Paul’s sentences into a ten-page explanation about “what Paul meant.” Paul meant what he said. Period.

The Tories (Trinity-Over-Reactors) are notorious for overthinking. First they overthink their defense against the Trinity. Wiping the sweat from their brows after THAT exercise, they overthink marvelously simple passages such as Paul's detailed explanation of how the Son of God came to be in Bethlehem—of all places. A beautiful and satisfying explanation—wrecked by the Tories.

The simple truth is not enough for the Tories. They must submit page after page of complicated, multi-syllabic explanations as to why a simple sentence such as “Christ emptied Himself to take the form of humanity” doesn’t mean what it says. Aaron Welch is the president of the overthinking club, Richard Golko the vice-president, and Mark Haukaas the First Minister of Getting into the Weeds and Not Getting Out.