GOD IS NOT OUT TO GET US

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back. Let’s think about our God of love who is never mean.

The title of today’s post must sound like New Age crap to the ears of a fundamentalist.

The fundamentalist homunculus who dwells within me certainly believes that God is out to get us when we disobey his royal sky-godness.  Every bad thing that happens to us is a punishment for our disobedience even if it was really Adam’s disobedience or something we did long ago before god got around to beating on us for it.

Talk about Old Age crap…

No, God is not out to get us. Life happens. Life as it happens includes pain and suffering. We have nerve endings; we feel pain.

Were our God of love such a Supreme Beast that he made it his business to disgrace us every time we disobeyed; surely, it would happen in such a way even scientists could agree we’ve got something supernatural grinding on us all the time.

For example, I heard a preacher once ask, “What would you do if a movie screen followed you around wherever you went and broadcast before those whom you meet all your inner thoughts and desires?”

Indeed, what would he do? 

It’s funny that the judgment crowd does not believe that God shames people directly. Nope, they are God’s vehicles through whom God shames.

Hmm. Am I wrong in observing that many Christians seem most eager to be vehicles for God’s public humiliation, but not for God’s love?

It seems contradictory to me that God wants us to shame and love others. Indeed, it is contradictory for love does not disgrace. Love is not rude. Love does not act in an unseemly way toward others.

Our God of love is not such being-in-the-world. God is Being Itself. We, the fallible creatures from our God of love, are numbered among the instances in creation that God said, “It is good.” 

So let us try not to disgrace ourselves in public if we can. It’s bad enough our family members and friends know what screw ups we are.

Love loves no matter what. I hear good news in that.

Blessings…