The Society of the Hook, Line and Sinker

Christianity
The Struggle between God and the Serpent over God's Love for Us
The Serpent's First Attempt to Poke a Hole in God's Heart
Butterfingers is the colloquial description of Original Sin
God Lets Us Stew in the Valley of Tears as Pickles Marinate in a Barrel of Brine
Heaven's Customer Service Department
Why do bad things happen to Good People?
God's Conception of Rescue differs from our Conception of Rescue
The Challenge of the Cross
Who is God?
God is the Artist who Paints on the Canvas of our Rationality
The Location of the Treasure
The Cross of Christ Is Not Well Understood In Christianity
The Big Picture of Christianity
The Saddle of Faith
How We got Ourselves into Our Dire Predicament in the Valley of Tears
The Solution to the Problem of Butterfingers
Putting our fingers in the flame convinces us that the fire is hot
Letting Us Stew in the Valley of Tears Defangs the Serpent
The Pedagogy of God is Severe
The Good News of Great Joy
The Economy of Paradise
The Appeal is to our Rationality not to our Obedience
God Expressed His Love for Us by Sending Us A Love Note
The Good News Of Great Joy
Mitigation in General
Mitigation: The Brevity of Life
Mitigation: The Gift of "Grease" to lubricate the wheels of our passage through the valley of tears
The Good News of Great Joy with regard to Suffering
Mitigation: The Escape and the Escape Route
Mitigation: The Sweetness of Paradise
Mitigation: The Current of Salvation
The Three Stages Of Salvation
Our Ignorance of the Sweetness of Paradise
The Rule of Survival
God is trying to Procreate
Publication of the Identity of God, the Sweetness of Paradise
The Flower of the Resurrection Grows in the Toxic Soil of the Crucifixion
The Cross of Christ
The Autobiography of God
The Autobiography of God
The Conversation between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection
The Greatest Conversation Between Humanity and God
The Collision between Our Question and His Answer
Our Failure to Piss Him Off
The Great Firewall of God
The Mathematics of Divinity
Articulating the Truth
The Sledgehammer of Truth
His Bloody Wounds
His Bloody Wounds
Our Native Tongue - the Language of Suffering
The Puny God that the Romans Defeated
Sin
The Good News of Great Joy with regard to Sin
Asymmetry in Response to Evil is the Mark of a Christian
The Battlefield and the Prize
The Credentials of Divinity
The Greater Miracle
Verification
Our Savior
The Escape
The Escape through the Valley of Tears
Did Jesus come to make our Passage through the Valley of Tears Easier or Harder?
What Emerged from the Evil We Did to Him and What Did Not
The Good News of Great Joy with regard to Death
How Jesus Raised the Upper Limit of Love
God is the Agent of Transformation
The Holy Places that Define the Escape Route
Prayer
The Mass
The Church
The Church
The Sheep
Curiosity
The Illusions
Shattering the Illusions
The Effect of Shattering the Illusions
Evangelization
Appendix #1 - Obedience
Has the Jury Reached a Verdict?
Communities of Love
God's Sense of Humor
The River of Free Will
The Chase
Conclusion
Appendix "A": The Agent of Persuasion
Reality
The Goldilocks Zone

What opens the ears? What makes obedience possible?

Love opens the ears. Love makes obedience possible.