Does God Make Sense?
I've been reading a few people's blogs and on each of them my train of thought goes back to the question "Does God Make Sense?" It reminds me of Anthony the speaker at eastercamp from Neville street saying on Cambell Live about how Jesus' claim and the christians' claim was the most ridiculous statement ever. (Not in a bad way of course, but it sure is a crazy claim)
I don't believe God is supposed to make sense. This world we live in is an upside-down world. Logic is nothing. Things don't work out the way they seem. Putting faith in God requires you to step forward without looking and it's not easy because the world teaches otherwise.
It's like God and the Bible. The world says "let's see what we can make of this, let's see how it all works into what we think happens, and into the little facts we have" God says "The bible is like a maze of many dimensions, you can't ever comprehend it all, but don't worry because i've already shown you the source, the centre of the maze, the finish line. It's me."
In proverbs we're taught that to give our time, money and energy means we will recieve more than if we didn't. We're taught that to gain the whole world means nothing if we neglect the spiritual side of our lives. Having it all doesn't bring happiness.
We have to live a spirtually full life in order to have peace and prosperity here.
Peace solves disputes better than war.
The serman on the mount talks about “Blessed are those who are poor – in possessions and in spirit. Blessed are those who have suffered loss and are in mourning. Blessed are the meek, and those who are hungry and thirsty – for sustenance and for justice; for righteousness. Blessed are the innocent, and those with purity of heart. Blessed are those who seek and work for peace: shalom, wholeness, health, fullness of life for all.”
But hang on, the world says "blessed are the rich, the well off, the strong, the popular. Blessed are the good-looking - they get all the girls. Blessed are the powerful."
And most christians would certainlky argue that it is better to be strong in spirit than weak. yet, "blessed are those who are poor..in spirit"
Paul was hated by townspeople because he "turned the world upside-down" (acts 17 i think)
This world we live in is not as it seems. Have you ever been in a situation when people tell you the most logical thing to do and yet God tells you something else? I have, and you know what? His way turns out better. Why? Because God didn't intend us to understand the world, He intended us to have faith in Him. If everything made sense then what good would faith be?
I don't believe God is supposed to make sense. This world we live in is an upside-down world. Logic is nothing. Things don't work out the way they seem. Putting faith in God requires you to step forward without looking and it's not easy because the world teaches otherwise.
It's like God and the Bible. The world says "let's see what we can make of this, let's see how it all works into what we think happens, and into the little facts we have" God says "The bible is like a maze of many dimensions, you can't ever comprehend it all, but don't worry because i've already shown you the source, the centre of the maze, the finish line. It's me."
In proverbs we're taught that to give our time, money and energy means we will recieve more than if we didn't. We're taught that to gain the whole world means nothing if we neglect the spiritual side of our lives. Having it all doesn't bring happiness.
We have to live a spirtually full life in order to have peace and prosperity here.
Peace solves disputes better than war.
The serman on the mount talks about “Blessed are those who are poor – in possessions and in spirit. Blessed are those who have suffered loss and are in mourning. Blessed are the meek, and those who are hungry and thirsty – for sustenance and for justice; for righteousness. Blessed are the innocent, and those with purity of heart. Blessed are those who seek and work for peace: shalom, wholeness, health, fullness of life for all.”
But hang on, the world says "blessed are the rich, the well off, the strong, the popular. Blessed are the good-looking - they get all the girls. Blessed are the powerful."
And most christians would certainlky argue that it is better to be strong in spirit than weak. yet, "blessed are those who are poor..in spirit"
Paul was hated by townspeople because he "turned the world upside-down" (acts 17 i think)
This world we live in is not as it seems. Have you ever been in a situation when people tell you the most logical thing to do and yet God tells you something else? I have, and you know what? His way turns out better. Why? Because God didn't intend us to understand the world, He intended us to have faith in Him. If everything made sense then what good would faith be?
posted by Rayd at 2:45 pm
6 Comments:
You cannot believe anything you don't understand (3 John 2, Romans 12:1, 2). Jesus taught "Blessed are the poor in spirit" because that's the only way God could make people strong with the light and strength of the Word. You are right about poverty: Most people would like to get up to the place where they are just poor today, rather than the more common and worse affliction of being in debt! If I believe 3 John 2 for what it says - that is, "have faith in" it - I cannot believe the lies of most the "Christian" religious world, which insists I blame God for everything bad in my life and be grateful for it, instead of thinking and believing to keep the adversary out and let God in (James 4:7-10).
There's nothing Godly about shutting off one's brain and becoming a doormat for the devil-spirit realm!
BTW and just as important, how have you been?
This server doesn't show your entire blog, so half of the "Post Eastercamp" article's missing, and I wish I could see the whole thing.
Does God Make Sense? Of course not, especially when seen through the crazy-quilt blinder "glasses" of man-made atheo-illogy.
The rightly-devided Word presents God to the Believer logically and sensibly, which is why you have to train yourself to question so-called "authority" on the subject.
sorry i don't have any spanners to throw into your works rayd. i more or less agree! although, in making that statement, now what? ;)
Sorry galt, i can't get rid of that error. It keeps coming back! There are two ways you can avoid it: either use Mozilla Firefox instead of internet explorer (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/)
, or you can click on the archive link on my sidebar for the latest months worth of posts. (in this case the latest link is April 2006. http://inhisradiance.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_inhisradiance_archive.html)
hope one of them them works cos i really can't fix this problem that continuously resurfaces.
What now Andrew? We do it His way. We take a stand, we dare to turn our back on the world and take steps of faith down the narrow road. We turn our upside perspectives the right way up so we can view the seemedly upside-down world the way God made it... Upright. That's what we do now.
I disagree, I think the things of God DO make sense. However, sometimes we don't know enough to fully understand things. I think God is incredibly logical, and logic is not 'nothing' it's very important.
So there!
(PS my brain is fried from ass-ignments)
and by logic do you mean the way the world perceives logic or the way we should be seeing logic?
Because i see the world as seeing the way things really are so very very wrong, and until we understand "God's logic" we don't understand anything.
U2 say in one of their songs "The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now"
Do you agree with that? because that doesn't seem logical to me, yet i find myself believing it to be true.
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