To Truly Live We Must First Die

Have you ever noticed that the spiritual world is simply a series of contradictions? To live one must first die. Following Christ leads to freedom and responsibility. To break the bonds of our slavery to sin, we must become slaves to Christ. The list could go on for quite sometime. My immediate reaction is to say that God is a loon. Yet anyone can read the statements of our Lord and see that He is quite sane, perhaps the most lucid being of all. So then why the contradictions? Perhaps, and I merely speculate, but perhaps God operates on a plane of existence in which we cannot understand true logic. God, in all wisdom and knowledge, must not see biblical "contradictions" as contradictions at all. In fact, with perfect understanding we would see the logic as well.