Opus 2024-195: Gods

We have been introduced to pagan ideas of God.  Often we are not even aware of it.  I think of The Force from the movie, Star Wars, and how it is an expression of the eastern religions, and their idea of God.  To them God is not a person.  He is simply a force with no right or wrong, no good or evil, just a force.  How this force affects us depends on us, not upon the force.

We also have the Greek idea of gods.  We find this in Hollywood celebrities, Talking Heads and authority figures.  We look at those who are powerful.  We want to be like them because we want to be powerful.  It’s not because they’re righteous or holy, or worth looking up to but because they’re above us and we want to be like them.  Actually we want to replace them.  That goes back to the conversation Eve had with the Serpent.  

(Gen 3:5 KJV)  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The Bible view of God is that he is omnipotent and all powerful and all those other things but he is still a person.  We may not be able to understand Him or the depths of His personhood, but He is still a person.  As a person, He relates to us as persons.  We have the example of Jesus to learn what God is like.  We don’t have to guess.  We don’t have to try to create a narrative.  God has communicated.  Now we listen.

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