grace's razor

i am a huge fan of simplicity. specifically, i'm a fan of Occam's Razor, the principle that reads, entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, or entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity. i take this philosophy to almost any context, from my design work to how i organize my biology folder. so many people try  to take something and make it more than it is, change it, adjust, add, concoct, twist, marinate and flambe', and i think to myself, that is just too much, how do you live like that? i just take Occam to his word and shave off whatever's growing too much every morning. that's actually what i like about the maxim; it's not called Occam's principle, theory, or whatever. it's a razor with which you can shave off any aspect that's extravagant and excessive. that's why it bugs me when people take salvation and turn it into this bewildering and convoluted abstraction that completely transcends all human thought. and it's true that God's ways are incapable of being comprehended by the human mind, but the basic idea of Salvation is pretty simple: we were born in sin and separated from God, but Christ's sacrifice took the place of ours, and we're no longer separated. it's simple because grace makes it simple. if our salvation was based on works (which would actually be impossible, but i'm making a comparison), it'd be a heck of a lot more convoluted and confusing. one of my favorite Christian rap artists is this guy called Flame, and he puts it one of the best ways i could think of: the bad news: we were born in sin. the good news: we can be born again. he actually repeats that phrase over and over again in one of his tracks just to stress its simplicity and its significance at the same time. the other important thing is the razor only takes off multiplicity beyond necessity. there are still several aspects about Christ that are crucial and must be kept (he has a beard and it can't be shaven off; all those pictures and Jim Caviezel say so).