Monday, May 22, 2006
Random Ponderings that May be Right or May be Left (i.e. your gonna burn in Hell with all the other liberal heathens!!!...REPENT!)
How great is God? I think that is something we can never fully understand here on this earth. I believe we tend to constrict our understanding of God to the limits of our physical understanding on things. We take the idea that Man is made in the image of God and flip it, creating God in our image of man. But our image of man is limited. Rather we need to imagine God as something much greater than our own physical viewpoint of who we are. Then does this mean that, since Man is created in the image of God, there is much more to us then what we physically define to be man? In away, yes. God is far Greater and far more Amazing than man, and by looking beyond our physical selves, we can get a glimpse of the Greatness in Whose image Man was created. There is more to God than man can understand, and there is more to Man than man can understand because we are made in the image of God. That’s not to say that we ourselves are gods, but that we possess a spiritual side that goes beyond our limited physical definition of man. As God’s creation, we are perfect. But we can’t achieve perfection on our own. Adam and Eve tried it; they took the forbidden fruit believing it would make them like God. We too, try in our own ways to achieve perfection outside of God. But we fail miserably, because the only way to achieve perfection is through God, because only He is perfect.
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Hey Pearman,
I like the thoughts. It reminded me of a metaphor I heard recently. Or, would this be "analogy?" Anyway, how can you look at the sun? It's so huge, bright, blinding. You can't do it. You can only catch a glimpse of it. You see it in the light all around you. It creates shadows. Warms the earth, etc. Maybe a connection to God? Can we even look at him? We complain for more, but could we even gaze at him? So, what we have now are the glimpses, shadows, etc.
I guess I throw this out because in your words there is a hint of how much we long for more of God.
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