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Date Posted: 06:39:17 04/02/02 Tue
Yeager,
Thanks for the posting this week. Also, a warm welcome to Larry Tucker. Thanks for your thoughts on your own spiritual journey. I hope we will be able to learn from you. Keep posting...
Sinners in the hands of an angry God....God is holy. He cannot look upon sin. He demands holiness of us. I agree with you Yeager that this aspect of God's character is minimized in our contemporary culture. In our Christian circles it is more fashionable to emphasize God's mercy and immanence over his holiness and transcendance. It is important to keep these attributes in tension.
"Here's a theory for you to disregard." (Lester Banks) I am in some pretty interesting circles out here in Boston. They tend to be more on the left side. I am going to a Jesuit school, Boston College. Jesuits are infamous for not only pushing the party line, but going over it. I also live a couple minutes from Cambridge, MA which is arguable the most progessive part of the country. I was at a lecture at Harvard the other day and they were bashing the institution of marriage. I suddenly realized that not only was I the only married person in the room, I was the only straight person in the room. Point: I am getting the "other" perspective.
All that to say, I think that some of the more leftist people would respond to Yeager's comments in the following way....They would say that our conception of God, or even God himself, is becoming more user friendly. The God of wrath, and judgment, and genocide is the God of the Old Testament. As history has progressed, so has our conception of God. This is reflected in the evolution of God into a nicer, more loving and merciful God. This is the God of the New Testament. The gospel is no longer limited to one nation, it is for everyone. You don't have to follow all these rules like in the OT anymore, just accept Jesus' love for us and reproduce it. Simply, the OT God was a mean God, the NT God is a nice God. Just as history is in a process, so too is God. As history goes on, our God is getting "cleaner". We cast off all these primitive conceptions of diety, (i.e. sacrifice, murder, ethnocentrism, etc.) and develop into a purer God concept (love, peace, forgiveness, grace, etc.)
This is one of the things I thought of in regards to, not only Yeager's posting, but our discussion of fear and hatred. The views presented don't reflect my views, but I wonder how you guys would respond.
ak
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