There is a Christian contradiction that all the world seems to know about except Christians. Christianity is a repository of labeled boxes. Pick one , mainstream, evangelical, counterculture then look inside and pick another labeled box, then look inside and pick another labeled box. You can keep doing this until there is no more room for labeled boxes inside the labeled boxes and what you have left is a collection of empty labeled boxes that more or less show the direction a person's religious aspirations was supposed to take them but not necessarily where their faith took them. It is never to late to fill these labeled boxes with substance but don't be surprised if those that do fill them fill them with substance that doesn't match the labels.
Christians if aware of this don't let on. There is a popular Christian colloquialism found on stationary, tee shirts and bumper stickers that reads: "Christians are not perfect just forgiven." It seems to imply to the uninitiated " I can get away with sh*t because my dad's the mayor." But this implication doesn't seem to bother the hundreds of thousands of Christians, especially evangelicals who display this message in one way or another to the world! Why? Because dear reader, " I can get away with sh*t because my dad's the mayor." is the unspoken, unwritten tradition that is the foundation of the labeled boxes dilemma.
This obviously apparent excuse from obligation provides unlimited do over's. It excuses the lazy. It encourages the transgressor it even promotes the very sins the Christian religion condemns thus the Christian Contradiction. But why the boxes? Why do Christians compartmentalize? The myriad of varieties of religious variations that make up Christianity come in a dizzying ever splintering of previous permutations each represented by a box and a label. This tradition can be traced back to the great schism between the eastern and western Christian churches but more recently was expanded by then Great Reformation and even more recently The great awakening. But every time a "great" revelation is discovered you can be sure another split, another co9martment or another box will be pulled out and a label placed.
This seeming disintegration of Church unity only serves to solidify the belief that Christians need Christ and as such must continue to seek the truth further splintering beliefs that further serve to unify the Christian Contradiction of Labeled Boxes.