The Christian philosophers are stuck. They shall remain stuck as long as their God motive is goodness, where is it, what is it? The good God is a misnomer. We were told the minute we jumped out of the cradle, now, be good little boys and girls. Goodness to some means obedience. We have shaped our God, our theology and our philosophy to fit our human reality. Is God humanlike? Shall we define God with trite human life patterns?
The Godless
philosophers tell us there is no God and ours is a completely natural world
governed only by mathematics. Maybe, maybe not. Following their advice means we
live only for the moment. Suppose there is another alternative? Suppose our God
definition is slightly off kilter. God’s motive for our created order has to be
something other or something bigger than just goodness. Goodness is always
crushed in our world.
Maybe, God
has created a world that teaches us about what God most clearly respects,
freedom. The time has come for an adult theology, a masculine theology that is
rooted in the competitive world we came from and not the Platonic bedtime stories
that seemed appropriate 2500 years ago. God is freedom, total freedom, freedom
is good. We are here in our now to experience freedom or the lack of freedom.
We learn
best about God freedom when we don’t have it. Therefore, evil is a necessary
evil in our world. We are slow learners, stubborn idiots who think that life is
about gathering up all the available goodies, even when there are none to be
had. We religious humans of every flavor tie up our Gods in neat humanlike packages
where there is no God freedom. Grow up all "ye" God thinkers.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
