ver.: 01 June 2008
Emerging themes :
Underneath all our cynicism, we're not stupid. We know what we really need : someone who loves us, whom we can trust, who can lead us, encourage us, and help us be all we were made to be. It takes a god to be that kind of good. Some philosophers would say that to meet this need, humans go about creating their own gods. But ask yourself : why posit a fancy of your own making, when the Real Thing is there? Not a god manufactured to meet an ultimate need, but a God who put the ultimate need into us in the first place, and seeks to fill it with the only thing which will work : God. If this is true, then no wonder the Bible is so hard on idolatry. When only the real God can satisfy, anyone/anything else we put in God's place can only pull us further and further from where we need to be.
Mixing and matching the parts of religions as DiY to create
a new image for God will not do, not just because the parts
don't fit together, but also because the whole effort is no
less idolatry than the making of golden calves. And the god
made by the effort is no more able to love or support or
teach or nurture or enable or grow us than the golden calf
was. We're left with only God as-is. And that God wants to hear from you.
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