If God is the answer and being saved is my way to God – then why all the fear?
“Forget all the intellectual googling, the academia of bible study, the God qualifications with all the practiced and sophisticated “scripturally correct” bullshit …
Good or harm … Save or destroy … “
Less and less do I see all the complication of God that I was taught and still see taught each week. More and more I see a simplicity I was never taught. A God who is not complicated. A God who is undemanding. A God not of sacrifice and burden. A God who does not ask that I invest so that I can be paid back for my investment (for all eternity). But a God who shows me that “Love is the answer – now what’s your question?”
And more and more I think we prefer fear. And I wonder is …
“THAT is why we fear relationship with a stranger … FEAR relationship with one who thinks differently … lives differently … is different …
And I wonder if we might all think about teaching a different God to the “complicated God”.
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Thanks for reading –
Paul
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I am told that “love is not enough”. That we need rules to deter the bad ones of their badness before they act upon it. And there is always a “them” in that – never “me” or “us” – always “them”.
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Them with guns … with a grudge … who want to be first … who don’t believe in queues … who consider kindness a weakness … who think strength is intimidating others … who don’t consider others me their equal. We need rules and consequences for badness enough to deter them … make “them” fear …
Which makes all of us “fear”. And constant fear never brings out the best in anyone.
It certainly doesn’t in me.
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“On another sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see…
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