RE: Literal and Not Literal
August 28, 2019 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2019 at 11:44 am by Acrobat.)
(August 28, 2019 at 10:51 am)Deesse23 Wrote: A teacher who intentionally keeps his disciples confused is an ass imho. Particularly when he is the reincarnation of a god. Whats the purpose of an (omni)benevolent deity being an ass?
The meaning of those things that confused the disciples, was understand through Christ's death and resurrection. Nothing the teacher could have said would have resolved this confusion, only an act beyond words and instructions held the meaning to be conveyed.
Quote:How do you know what your god wants? How do you know what kind of god your god is?
I know what he isn't. The sort booking the Apollo for a grand magic tricks. Because no such booking is taking place. Or the sort of God unfaithful to the life in front of us, some sort of Dewey eyed benign Santa in the sky. Because no such life exists that would have formed by such a being. If there is a God, he's one faithful to both the monstrosity and beautify of existence.
Quote:Life is not a stage show. Its more serious than that. I am actually shocked you are comparing the struggle of all humans in our history, particularly all the hardships and suffering to a magic show. But otoh its a cornerstone of your religion to have contempt for fellow human beings and pretend it to be compassion. Thats the part where religion has poisoned your mind.
You're right, life is no stage show, it's far more serious than that. God whose nothing but a grand stage show performer, is an answer to nothing, a jester to a joke of life.
A serious God wouldn't be about magic, but the struggles and suffering of human existence , a God who makes sense of senselessness. If any such reality, if any such being exists, it's only this that's worthy of being called God. A God who turns the brutalized murder of an innocent man, into the reality of hope and redemption.
But the seriousness of these things, are not reducible to language problems, the horrors of the holocaust, of the lynching tree, are not failures of articulation, if we only knew the right words to say, how to express ourselves clearly, could we avoided them . But a failure to recognize the brokenness of the human condition, a reflection of sin, the great tragedy that lays at the very heart of life. And if weren't for the reality of hope, redemption, transformation, all that would be left is despair, a lynching victim left to hang on a tree for an eternity.
