Can Christianity and Taoism Coexist? (Or will I go to Hell?)

Jesus made me, so Jesus save me from pity, sympathy and people discussing me. — Steven Patrick Morrissey

Both embrace the metaphysical. Both are a way of living, not a set of answers. Yet humans crave answers, even to the point of killing for them. However, people closest to the way are often silent. They know there is wisdom in silence.

Most interesting from the New Testament would be John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

In many Chinese translations of the Bible, Tao is used for Word, which originated from the Greek word Logos. “In the beginning was the Tao, and the Tao was with God, and the Tao was God.”

The Greek word Logos roughly translates to “divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it meaning.”

Contrast this with the beginning of the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching:

The tao that can be told

is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named

is not the eternal Name.

Like the Tao, the Word was not meant to be grasped. True Christians, like true Taoists, don’t proselytize.

Consider the lilies of the field.

The Taoist concept of wu wei, roughly meaning “non-action”, “effortless action”, or even the “action of non-action” has been compared to creatives…