Mellow Hello

Friday, April 24, 2015
Failure in the Victory Garden: Mellow Hello

I have always said that Christianity is a religion of paradoxical living. Here it is again.

Having been created and thus finite, we are left to be creatures that perceive truths and realities through the lens of our own experience and understanding. Consequently no experience or truth can be expressed without the basis of our own perceptions. 

Even when we catch glimpses of things far larger than we could ever know from those moments, by design, we try to make sense of them based on what we know in order to understand them.

Again, what other choice do we have?
What choice have we been given?

It is after all how we were created and so the creator must know it, we were after all made in his image.

That said we should step carefully and make every effort not to create God in our image or present Him as such.

Although actually not doing so, by the very nature of how we were designed may be impossible, we need to make the effort to be mindful of this inour presentation of realities based on our limited understanding of them.

Failure to at least be sensitive in that regard can only lead to very limiting misconceptions about God in every aspect and we run the very real risk of a view very different from their actuality as each experience builds on the previous.

We will inevitably come to relate to God as based on our own experience, the creator of the individual, (more specifically us), rather  than taking into consideration God as the creator of all, the collective. Thus we will lend far more credibility to the authority of our own views, and far less to those of others, than may be justified.

In others words we shouldn't believe that we can understand the whole of the puzzle base on our one piece, not that we should stop trying to, since that too is how were created.

It's not so much insulting to God (I would imagine) as much as it can leads us very  astray in our pursuit of knowing Him.

Oh look a butterfly....

Ultimately, I think it's one thing to believe certain things about God, leaving room for that to evolve as we do, especially since it seems unavoidable, but a far different and damaging thing altogether to make claims of unchangeable certainty for and about God, as though we might possibly understand Him now.

I would in fact say that in doing so, in a very real sense, we attempt to make ourselves equal to God, and when we make ourselves equal to God, we make ourselves equal to the devil.

"Did God really say you can't eat of any tree?"... and so it goes.