tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718756643650361118.post5307566801868033067..comments2019-02-26T08:55:23.364-06:00Comments on Eavesdropping In The Areopagus: "I'M ALMOST CERTAIN THERE IS NO GOD..., WELL, PRETTY SURE..."Richard Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10855434140247141016noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718756643650361118.post-49049621408254732010-08-15T14:25:07.797-05:002010-08-15T14:25:07.797-05:00Well, I've been itching to reply to this one s...Well, I've been itching to reply to this one since Friday! Sounds like you hooked up with some memebers of the Lutheran-Atheist Society that were at the University of Chicago Divinity School while I was at LSTC back in the late 60s. "We believe in God, but there are serious problems with..."<br /><br />A lot of people, including church-going Christians, want God to be more like themselves and just can't believe if God is not. "He's certainly not doing much" sums it up. Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about that. She asked a question of those folks--- "So, you think God is a fixer?" The implication is that she thinks God is not. While her meaning can be startling at first one would have to agree that at some point maybe we put a little too much on God, remake his "job description" too much according our own definition and expectation. <br /><br />So then we have a mean or callous God, or an indifferent one? DO we want a total Fixer? So goes that conversation, right?<br /><br />A little fearfully I would offer the following solution. Perhaps we all have not given serious thought to the fact that God was nailed to a cross and died. I'm not sure where BBT came out on this, but the idea was brought up (and misunderstood and dismissed) back in the 60s in the "God is Dead" movement. God didn't die, but our ideas about God's power did... or should have.<br /><br />Perhaps all the "omni-s" of the 19th century (?) have influenced us too much. Omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, i.e. Our Lord of Perpetual Responsibility! Was Bonhoeffer not direct enough in his proclamation that "man has come of age" and let us wander off on our old way of thinking?<br /><br />So, is God a Fixer or not? I'm not sure the hidden-fixer-God idea pulls it out--- God really does control everything we just aren't smart enough to understand it. <br /><br />What think ye, brethren?Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718756643650361118.post-44327142366712667802010-08-14T15:38:24.200-05:002010-08-14T15:38:24.200-05:00I think the point you make is very true, that peop...I think the point you make is very true, that people won't believe if it appears God is acting differently than they expect/want/anticipate. "I couldn't believe in a God like that!" But God will be what God will be, not what we will for God.Joseph G. Crippenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715752665993691993noreply@blogger.com