Somewhat Random Thoughts
I am going somewhere in my thoughts that I express here, it is just that, well, I often find myself off in the bushes somewhere. I look around and don’t find anyone anywhere near me. So I have to really do some digging to see if I am just way off of the path, or if the path is just a lot less traveled than I realized. At the same time, I don’t need a lot of people yelling at me, telling me I am crazy. I already know that. It does help, though, to have someone point out just why I am where I am at.
Honestly, I don’t think I fully subscribe to “Solo Deo Gloria” (did I write that right?).
I don’t think that all of ungodliness around us does not speak to who we are, and who our maker is. The world is full of hundreds of religions, but they do seem to break down into several major ones. What do these religions say about us? About God?
Why are we the ones, and why is the Bible the guide?
I am not even convinced that God’s purpose and/or methods have been consistent from the start of our time until now.
I’m also not convinced that God does, or at least, that He always has understood us completely.
What is God’s nature? What is the nature of love? What is love?
Perhaps Christ really did “save” all of mankind? Is it possible that His death on the cross did cleanse every last human of his sin, past, present and future, at that moment?
Perhaps the issue of forgiveness of sins is moot, because it has been done. We have it, all of humanity, and it is over with.
Perhaps that is why God no longer punishes sin outright on the earth, because He no longer sees it.
Then, the issue of individual personal “salvation” would not be an issue of receiving God’s forgiveness, but of having a personal relationship with Him.
In short, God wanted to have a relationship with us, but He couldn’t because of our sin. So Jesus died in order to cover the sin of the entire world. Now that is done, we are all free to have a relationship with Him.
So then, the question is not, are we forgiven, but does He know us? Those who do, spend eternity with Christ, heaven, those who do not, spend eternity in, well, the same place they do now, apart from God.
I know, I know, try reading my Bible a little and see that this is all very un-scriptural. Or maybe it is just beyond what the Bible reveals? As in, “possible,” but not stated. That, too, is really not acceptable either.
Am I really to love God as a little child? As a baby? Well, my little Rebecca loves me this way. When she sees my face, she smiles and wiggles with glee. When I walk out of the room, she screams.
I can scream.
Posted 1/23/2007 4:23 PM
2 Comments:
“To the Mystery”
Michael Card
When the Father longed to show
The love He wanted us to know
He sent His only Son and so
Became a holy embryo
Chorus
That is the Mystery
More than you can see
Give up on your pondering
And fall down on your knees
A fiction as fantastic and wild
A mother made by her own child
A hopeless babe who cried
Was God Incarnate and man deified
Chorus
Because the fall did devastate
Creator must now recreate
So to take our sin
Was made like us so we could be like him
Michael Card deals well with mysterious ponderings.
Posted 1/28/2007 10:51 PM by novisigothsorkangaroos
I like it. Food for thought….
Posted 1/29/2007 12:15 AM by madhatterb78
