Recent Thoughts

There is a statement which I have come to realize as rather inaccurate: "life is not fair."
This staggering statement seems to find its way into the mouths of many... even those of the faith.

life is not fair? on the contrary, it is perfectly fair. This "jewel" of a statement contradicts two attributes of our Father, perfect justice and omnipotence. However, it is not terribly surprising that we find this on the mouths of Christians here in the west, for we have considered ourselves in control. Not only this but, for those outside of Him who are in continual sin death and or pain is their judgement and consequence. For us it is our discipline and consequence.

Life is perfectly fair as God is the authority not us.


Thought 2

On the holiness of God:

I have mentioned before that one question that should fix our struggles with God is how big is (y)our God?

I would like to challenge this notion:

The question, 'How big is your God?' is somewhat if not completely flawed. First of all when we say this we maintain that size or measure is the issue at hand. We can know that our God is without a doubt consistent in size eternally and cannot be measured. This is where the real flaw is. Our doubt in His capabilities is not a question in measure. For we cannot conceive of His size or capability. So perhaps our real question lies with what or whom do we put our trust in? The concept of god is not terribly difficult as this involves a being simply having a spiritual control. A conception of God (note the uppercase 'g') is not easily defined in fact can not be defined except with Himself (Exod 3:14). We can give mere descriptions of Him such as omnipotence and omniscience. However, once we do this we get the funny feeling that we have an understanding of Him. We have all of our omni's in a row and we are ready to conceive Him. Or let us consider something else. In Scripture we read that God commands that no one should ever create an image of Him (Exod 20:4, Isa 40:18). God is not something to be constructed. And even more the very word God, or YHWH (and I do not use that word lightly) is indicative of what we are dealing with. So to conclude, if we are not having trust in Him, then we need to ask one of two questions. How big (small) is your god? or maybe even more appropriate a question who is your god?

(just this question alone opens up a whole new can of exegetical beans)