So work this out with me as I jotted them out from my mind.
I'm too lazy to build up an index of quotes today, so I'm not going to search for some cross references nor any other statement to back my points.
So let's just think for the very sake of thinking today...
So, here we go.
I begin the very tease of mind when I'm thinking back about how I've lived my life so far.
I am lucky, no, luck is not the proper term here, it's even bigger than that, I felt amazed by the very idea of me having the chance to know about God of the Bible, an encounter with Jesus through His Words, moreover, to respond towards the calling of the Gospel, that is, to have faith in what His Words claim to be true, as not all had that privilege of an encounter in their life.
I am a strong believer upon a claim made by Calvinism, that even to believe in what God said in the Bible, need a miracle of renewing of mind, that's how I believe a human nature is, pitch black, so much so, that it's impossible for us human to work our way to make ourselves believe that God is true.
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As that been said, I stumbled upon this ideas, that I begin to see that particular situation under two new lights.
So, mind me now, I'm not trying to raise an apostasy, this is just my thinking process being poured out in the open.
The first opinion, is that God is merciful, so much so, that He chooses to still saves a sinful human, such as me, and the rest of humanities, all in accord to His own grand designs.
The second opinion, is, and here is where the conflicting statement came in, that God is pitiful, as if God is in need of human to responded His love, that God saves human, so He can have a flock to tended to and loves.
Wrong.... Simply wrong...
Why?
I believe that the 2nd opinion is wrong. And you asked me why?
Simple, if that points out to be true, than the God that created the universe, is simply an ego-maniac of a god.
And hence no longer deserves any entitlement for godhood.
I'm not going to linger on this topic, about how a god should be, because I myself, excuse me, is not a god, so I don't know how a god supposed to be. But, by nature, we can speculates and argues about what is God, and what is 'god'
So, if God isn't a beggar for worshipers, than there must be something else about God within His very nature, that made Him giving a godly radiance.
I argues, that God is 'God' simple because His wisdom encompasses everything, He is so high above all things, yet God isn't far away like some people think about.
Despite being above and beyond all things, God is closer than anything we can imagine.
I argues again, that God is above and beyond all creation, and yet, being such, making God keeping distance from things He created, than that particular 'god' is lacking sympathy, emphaty, and unable and will never be able to relate to what He created. And that's, not god.
So, I had this idea within my head, that is hard to explain in words, but maybe they were shaped back from the 4 years of seminary and some dozens year afterward still ruminating with my personal devotion and inner theological arguments. Or maybe they were completely a different things that I came to be revealed toward through my personal relationship with God through prayers and Bible devotions.
Of that, I can't really put my finger on them to squeeze any explanation for you at least for now.
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Where was I? Oh yes,
To cut my rumination short, as I don't want to bore you out. Let's bringy point that I came to term through my thinking process.
What I want to discuss, is the same old song, the same repetition from other preacher before my time.
God love us, and God's love is a one of a kind love, that only God and God alone can reproduce. A Love beyond every reasoning.
Simply put, the unwavering love, the proper term in English wordings is : steadfast. Yes indeed, God's love is a steadfast love.
So, to return to my 2nd opinion that I brought you in my opening statement, than, it's a no-no, a complete no 100% sure.
God isn't an egotistical entity that craves for people to worship and serve Him.
But it is the very nature of God, that is to love His creation steadfastly, I mean, despite human rebel against God time and time again, He still loves us no matter what.
That came to term, with an extra, that is, as long as it's not the end of time yet.
So, as long as a human lived their lifespan, there are a somewhat of limited-'unlimited' chances given from God, sorry I can't find the right words for my point here.
What I'm trying to deliver, is that God still loves a person no matter what, as long as they are still in this world.
When they died and return to be judged at the end of time, then it's a different story.
A question appears out of the blue, that if we go by this very logic of an argument, than a new extreme arises.
Isn't that depicts God as a manipulative God?
That God toyed with us human, loving us and such, and yet fail to give us the grace and miracle to renew our soul so we can believe and have faith in Him, and be saved from enternal death.
I believe it's not the case. And this very argument is the basis of the splitting among Christian theologians to this very day.
Because if we go by that argumentative reasoning, then we come to stumble across the bitter concept, that if that is to be true, then, God is secretly cruel. A psychopath, that love humanities, yet choose to only saved a small number of human, while secretly plotting eternal damnation to this very human He so loved.
No, no and no.
God is Love, and also at the same time, God is Just.
By His love He blesses us, and sustained our life, despite our transgressing toward Him and our rebellion in heart's if heart.
But, by His just nature, all sins must be condemned to hell. So since the day Adam and Eve ate from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we all sinned, and received our ticked for hell since the very first breath we inhaled after arriving in this world, as all human inherited Adam's nature of sinning.
No matter how holy you lived your life, even if you're to contribute all things you own to serve the whole humanity, no matter what, still hell for sure.
Hell is depicted as a purging fire where pain and suffering resided, but the true hell isn't just the physical pain, but rather the eternal death of human not able to be connected to God, that's even painful and much more suffering for a human, rather than any physical pain.
But that's where the Gospel step in, the Good news, is Jesus, the true God incarnated in human flesh, come to be born as a human being, and lived a perfect live, and received the judgment for sin, so we might be saved, by believing in what He did on the cross, and received the reward of Jesus's perfect sinless life as our own.
That's where the showcase for God's steadfast love came into the picture.
No matter what humanity did, for thousands of years we sinned and continuously doing it with due diligence, yet God choose to sent Jesus once and for all, Jesus, is God Himself, incarnating Himself to be human, to be mortal, and choose to obey the Law that God gave Moses, and Jesus lived a perfect example of God's Law. So much so, in order to reveal God as a Father to all that believed in Him, so all can he saved from eternal damnation, from hell.
Yes then, God is good, and this kind of God is for sure, without any doubt, is the true God, much differ from all kind of god depicted by other religions.
The God that is way far above and beyond all things, without limitation nor boundaries from anything, yet at the same time, is closer than any other things to a person.
The God that's is too majestic to be limited by anything He created, choosed to take care of humanitu failure and bring restoration to all creation, not because He is a power seeking God, but rather because God is the standard for all Love, He still saved us despite our wicked nature.
And by that, is how I come to acknowledge how Majestic is the steadfastness of His love toward human, even a great sinner like me.
So, if I'm allowed to boasts, I will boast upon how great is God's steadfast love in my life. Despite me doing this and that, He still revealed Himself in my life, enabling me to believe and grow some faith inside my heart, that I can respond through the gifted response He granted me.
If this is like such, how can it not be the case that this God is the true God, and the rest is mere mimicry false idols.
There, I said it all, that Jesus is God, and all other is not, that the Christian God is the true God, while other religions claims that their god is God, were false.
I've been through many religions personally in my life, and no god's from those previous encounters is like the Christian God.
So, yes, Jesus is God for sure, no doubt about it.
*drop the microphone*
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