Here are some of my thoughts of late... as diverse as they may be.
1. God is like an onion. But only because we've made him that way. We've put so many layers of theology and idealology on the person of God that we have to strip it all away to actually find his core.
2. For example: gender attribution to who He is. A lot of people assume that God is of a male gender. For a few reasons:I guess this is because people see God as part of the Trinity, God the father, son and Holy spirit. We God as male because of the word "father. " So automatically presupposes that he is male. Also, we see Jesus as the human likeness of God who came to earth and assume that since Jesus is male, and the trininty are three in one, that God is male as well. In truth, and I've said this on previous posts, it doesn't really matter what God's gender is. If we try to fit him( I'll just use that form of third person out of force of habit and also because our language is too limited to house God. If we say it, it seems like God is not a personal God, like he is an inanimate object of something) into our language we are suggesting that he is not God at all. Well, let me rephrase that, according to the ontological arguments, God is not God if he fits into any box that we've made for him. So... if we try to make him male or female... we're essentially taking away his God like qualities. God is too big to fit into any gender!!!
3. I'll have to attribute this line of thought to Shawn: why do we believe in Jesus the way we do? Is it because of our environment? Because we've been raised in America to love Jesus and all that entails? What would it be like if we were raised in Saudi Arabia or Iran? Would God, or Jesus for that matter, still pursue us ,or would our conception of religion, and therefore, God be totally different?
4. Why do we try to personalize God? It seems as if we do this, then God becomes subjective. When we know in fact, that God is God, he does not change to accomodate every person. True, in his power he can allow people different experiences of him, and this may be the best thing because we are not all ready to experience him in the same way, and even if we did, would that be God? Would his power seem less? But it seems like if we try to say that God is personal to us, that we are putting him in yet another box that we have made.
5. If in Christian faith, the body is so irrelevant, why did God ascend in to heaven with his body? We always say it is the soul that matters... and indeed God took his body with him to prove his power and that he was Christ and rose again, but why?
