Theological ramblings
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beccaelizabethHave finished reading a book where the key to saving the world was to give up their will to god(dess).
I don't think the divine actually wants us to do that.
I mean if they wanted to do everything then they would do everything. Like playing with dolls. Wouldn't need to give us free will in the first place.
I think god wants friends.
I know god made us plural. Many of us. Difference, diversity. Shiny rainbow people.
I don't think the key is giving up your will. I think it is finding out what your will is, being yourself as only you can be.
Which I guess is why I'm more mage than priestess.
But the other way doesn't make sense to me. I mean it would be kind of comforting to let God fix things, but its kind of like, if God is a parent, surely their joy is in watching us grow up? I mean bad parents try to live through you or make you live for them, good parents just like it that you live.
To extend the metaphor, parents also help out when we need it. A meal now and then. Fun stuff. Help in emergencies. But generally speaking moving into their basement is not a step forwards.
So, free will good, diversity good, being ourselves in all our assorted unique ways very good.
Getting out of the way so god can do stuff... doesn't so much feel like the good idea. God made us in the first place. Giving up our will to him would seem to add up to giving all the presents back. I'm pretty sure we're meant to use them instead.
I don't think the divine actually wants us to do that.
I mean if they wanted to do everything then they would do everything. Like playing with dolls. Wouldn't need to give us free will in the first place.
I think god wants friends.
I know god made us plural. Many of us. Difference, diversity. Shiny rainbow people.
I don't think the key is giving up your will. I think it is finding out what your will is, being yourself as only you can be.
Which I guess is why I'm more mage than priestess.
But the other way doesn't make sense to me. I mean it would be kind of comforting to let God fix things, but its kind of like, if God is a parent, surely their joy is in watching us grow up? I mean bad parents try to live through you or make you live for them, good parents just like it that you live.
To extend the metaphor, parents also help out when we need it. A meal now and then. Fun stuff. Help in emergencies. But generally speaking moving into their basement is not a step forwards.
So, free will good, diversity good, being ourselves in all our assorted unique ways very good.
Getting out of the way so god can do stuff... doesn't so much feel like the good idea. God made us in the first place. Giving up our will to him would seem to add up to giving all the presents back. I'm pretty sure we're meant to use them instead.
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Date: 2005-08-14 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-14 09:18 pm (UTC)I think a lot of things, contradicting at times, and I can believe any of them at any given time, to be honest. But what you just wrote, at the moment, made me think...
That if you see God as a separate entity from humanity, you cannot know that it thinks the way humans do. It can be a completely different process. Good parenting, bad parenting, playing with dollies, letting us grow up - those are all human or humanoid behaviours. If God is not an invention or extension of mankind, than it can be a completely different being, and we can't know what it wants, *if* it wants. It's - not working like our brains.
Of course, I could be ten times wrong. Who knows.