Absolute Truth

[setter]

I was going to respond to some other parts of your post. But…well, you’ve said some hurtful things about the Divine, and my faith. You make declarations about it that you have no way of knowing if they are true. No matter what I tell you, you will say what you want to, not paying attention to what I say about my own experience in my faith.

I believed for many years that God was able to reach out and touch me, but He didn’t. I don’t know why He chose not to. Maybe you do, you know Him personally.

But the Divine doesn’t need arms to reach out, it IS. Everywhere I am, it IS. Every need I perceive, it IS. It doesn’t hide from me. It IS.

You can call it cold, cruel or any other string of words you want, but that wont change the truth.

I try to speak only of my own faith and not make assumptions or denigrate the faith or deity of others, because…I realize I don’t know their experience, and matters of faith are so very personal.

cheddar

The truth is that we should expect and count it a blessing that we find God in nature and in its images of all creation, but not in the pantheistic sense, i.e., God is the tree, the meadow, the sunset, …, but in the panentheistic sense, i.e., God is *present in *the tree, the meadow, the sunset, …

It is illusionary and the hope of the devil that he will get sincere folks to stop at and believe that the *images of God *are God, so as they may not encounter the power and wisdom, love and salvation of the personal and transcendent God that is *present in *all of His creation. Faith is meant to be a very personal encounter with the Person’s of the Trinity.

I suggest that the only thing being hurt is your attachment to the pantheistic misconception of the reality of God. Pray that God may reveal the truth of Himself to you if there is more truth about Himself to be revealed.

 

[Gilbert_Keith]

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.
-Benedict XVI-

 

[Mr.Ex_Nihilo]

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.
-Benedict XVI-

Excellent quote!

It reminds me of G. K. Chesterton’s thesis which I’ve broken into point form…

The new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything.

For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it.

Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and then he writes another book in which he insults it himself.

He curses the Sultan because Christian girls lose their virginity, and then curses Mrs. Grundy because they keep it.

As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time.

A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself.

A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie.

He calls a flag a bauble, and then blames the oppressors of Poland or Ireland because they take away that bauble.

The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts.

**In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mind. **

In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men.

Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909​