Michael Jackson, Shutter Island, Jesus and Ambiguity

Things change faster than we want them to.  Creating an entire structure around a conviction, belief or interpretation of reality (new wine in old wineskins) is a dangerous path to take.  It's fun to build something based upon a belief because building forts is fun, but when we build our "forts" around changing tides, then change becomes more difficult, it takes a lot longer and deconstruction moves into its unnecessary stage of destruction.  We need to build around our convictions with the anticipation that...

1. what we build is an unfinished project 
2. we need to build anticipating that what we build will eventually taken apart (and that's ok).
3. what we build is a contribution not the solution.   

There are no everlasting edifices  -  only everlasting life.

"The Greek language was founded upon ambiguity."
- Grant Osborne

In its grammar, the prepositions in Greek were added to clarify the initial ambiguity.  It is wrong to fear ambiguity.  Dispelling ambiguity may not be only a Western agenda but it is definitely a foundational agenda for the Western world.  We have done it through dogma, rationalism, literalism, partisanship and hero worship.  The anxiety of ambiguity should be given to Christ, not to a doctrine, a rational argument, a leader, a pattern of self-control, etc... Once the control of ambiguity is given to anything else other than Christ, that choice becomes idolatry.  In reverse, we shouldn't hide behind ambiguity and elevate it up to a position of the end-all answer to find recluse in while the world goes to pot around us.  Either way, the predominant issue is more that the fear of ambiguity has such a grip on us.

Films such as Shutter Island and Fight Club, do give us some answers but also leave us asking more questions and leaving us in a state of irresolution concerning certain aspects of these films.  Ecclesiastes and Job in the Old Testament do the same thing for us as well as the book of Revelation in the New Testament.  All of these books have some answers but they leave us with more questions.  Though there is some resolution, irresolution is actually created by the end of these texts, an irresolution that the authors, directors and producers were all comfortable with.  We are also called to be comfortable with this ambiguity as well  - because whether we like it or not - our world is much more ambiguous than we want to accept.

If we are to be comfortable with the tension of ambiguity, then what do we do with that tension when being comfortable is not necessarily that easy?  Or what do we do with this tension when it hasn't been practiced consistently in our lives prior to realizing this and why is there a picture of Jesus holding the body of Michael Jackson in this post?