Interesting blog. Interesting comments,
Envisioning God as a mother or best friend or in any way floats your boat as you said, actually detracts from what He really is, no matter how pleasing it may be to perceive Him differently.Following up on this, our knowledge and understanding does not, can not come from ourselves as human beings. God is above all things transcendent, meaning we can not even fathom a smidgeon of who He is. All we know of God, comes from God alone, as He has chose to reveal Himself. He is Father. He is Creator, etc. We must never delve into simplification of the One, Holy Almighty. On the other hand, we must also realize that all we know of God is still insignificant to what we will know some day, and even that pales in comparison to who God is.
let me elaborate. when we are talking to God in prayer and asking his forgivness, he does not judge us then whereas most people would say something along the lines of, “I can’t believe you did that!” or “That’s wrong and you should be ashamed.”Interesting blog. Interesting comments,
Although though you apparently ferverenty believe what you wrote, that in and of itself doesn’t make it a fact. Even if you posted it on a blog.
You state unequivcally that God does not judge you. My young friend, I don’t know where you got that idea but make no mistake about it, God WILL JUDGE YOU
Not once but twice as a matter of fact. It is sad that you appear not to know this. I am not surprised though as in the majority of CCD programs that I know of instruction in the basics is sadly lacking and generally ignored in the general orgy of love that is omnipresent. As my old CCD director used to say,“Don’t bore them with dogma, cover them with love”.
He is everything although some of us enjoy thinking of him as friend or mother or father. God is please with whatever we call him as long as we love him and serve him within the guiedlines of the Church.
That is an interesting statement. God is pleased with whatever we call him.:ehh: Where did you get that particular revelation? Or is that just an opinion that you have developed? If I am not mistaken, Christ, who is God, called God the Father, Father, not the brother or mother or sister of best friend.He is everything although some of us enjoy thinking of him as friend or mother or father. God is please with whatever we call him as long as we love him and serve him within the guiedlines of the Church.
The CCC states that God has no sex and therefore can be refered to as a mother although most of the time we refer to him as the father because we say Holy mother church. God is indeed pleased with what we call him if we show him reverence. God is not hung onto laws and rules as humans are. I take no liberites. I only take the ones given to me by God and this is by no means my liberty to warp his relationship with me and mankind. I simply state what the Gospels say.
Not so. God has gender in one sense. God took on flesh and became totally man. When he walked this Earth, He was male. His humanity is part of his resurrection. The Bible does not refer to God the Mother, only God the Father. This is the way He revealed Himself to Man.
I haven’t seen you say much of what the Gospels say, but then again I haven’t read alot of what you write.
Perhaps the seed for the idea came from paragraph 239, and here is a snip from it:
This makes me think of a hen mothering her chicks or other biblical images like that more than it makes me think of “Mother!” But I also find the paragraph that talks of purifying our minds of personal images when praying the Lord’s Prayer to be interesting. It mentions both maternal and paternal images:
The way that God has been revealed by His Son is very important to me.
I read the gospels.I don’t mean to sound rude, but where exactly did you get these ideas of yours from? They don’t seem to reflect Catholic theology as much as some mismashed understanding of it.
When Jesus came to Earth he told us that the law was not going to acheieve us heaven. Today the Church is almost like the Jews of old, that cling to their laws. But I must respect the pope and the Chruch beause the pope sits in Peter’s chair and the Church is the bride of christ. Sometimes we go to deep into our rules and we often forget the gospel message that Jesus preached.
You tread on some pretty shaky ground, SHF. It’s not how I was raised and, frankly, borders on protestantism when you say “I read the gospels” (meaning that you can interpret the gospels on your own instead of submitting to the Magesterium). My parents and I submitted to the Magesterium of HMC back in 1967 in obedience. What you take for granted was anything but back in 1967.
Actually what you have just said sounds perilously close to what Martin Luther, Huss Wycliff and the others said back in the early days of the Protestant reformation, not to mention what many protestants of today believe. The Catholic Church has never relied on sola scriptura as many of the protestants do and I am somewhat concerned that you seem to be on that track.
Martin Luther had many fine points that were mostly true. He never intended to seperate from the church. i have to post more later I am at school.
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