Christianity itself drives us in two ideals, and calls us to be paradoxes, impossibilities. We condemn sin, but love those who commit it. We are called individually, but must exist in community. We are to reason, but have faith. We are to recognize the afflicted human, but treat them as God. We are to have nothing, yet everything. To abstain from the world, but live in it. We are to die, but be alive. To be human, yet commanded to be perfect. To ask of God, yet be mindful that he is not "our" God. To strive for things above, when our sight remains woefully horizontal. To be a Christian, is an impossibility. (Note, this is not the same as, it is impossible to be a Christian.)