No Go

Process theology is sterile thinking. While much of what is said, needs to be said as opposed to classical theism, the full end of this thinking seems to be “me is God”.  It seems to be a human centered philosophical theology as clearly stated in Appendix A, “Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition”, by John B. Cobb Jr. and David Ray Griffin. The authors remark that all theology is also philosophy, therefore, we thinkers should think “rightly”.  Maybe so but sterile thinking is a no go.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca    

 

Drama

Message to Moses from the burning bush that would not be consumed, “I am, who I am” (Ex 3:14). What was God saying to Moses in the face of such an inhuman challenge (let my people go)?

Richard Rice, ‘Biblical Support for a New Perspective’: “The Openness of God”, Pinnock, Rice, Sanders, Hasker, Bassinger, InterVarsity Press, 1994, p. 49.

“Thus, according to Wolfhart Pannenberg, it asserts that God “will show himself in his historical acts.” In effect, God says, “I will be there for you.” Or, to risk putting it too colloquially, “I am the one you can always count on.” At any rate, the text points to the dynamic (drama driven, gg) quality of God’s activity rather than to the static quality of the divine nature.”

The human/divine life drama without a script.  gg

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca

Window

“So we are left with the mysterious but undeniable fact of consciousness as a non-physical reality, a reality which we have to assume is capable of free self-determination.  This opens a window onto the possibility of a kind of non-physical reality to which the religions point as God, Brahman, the Dharmakaya and the Tao.”

John Hick, “The Fifth Dimension: An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm”, One World Publications, 2013, P.34.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

God

God is bi-sexual. God, our one God, is both immanent in our lives and the same God is transcendent, beyond our earthly knowing, beckoning us too another reality. God is both our nurturing creating mother and our challenging father in perfect balance. This balance was shadowed among us in the life of Jesus and possibly others, who are less familiar to us in the Judeo-Christian tradition.  gg

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca  

 

Search

Process Naturalism (God is us) and Process Theism (God is us and other)

“If human beings are the supreme realities, then the usual response, even of process thinkers, is to think in terms of intelligent planning, organizing, and controlling of events for human benefit. Of course, all of this has a place. But I believe, with Wieman, that the deeper truth is that we need to find that which is trustworthy and to trust it even when we do not know where this will lead.”

John B. Cobb, Jr., Chapter 18. “Process Theism”; from C. Robert Mesle, “Process Theology: a basic introduction”. Chalice Press, 1993. P. 135.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca

Whoopi

Whoopi Goldberg, you are so very sexy when you get your dander up. I like. This blog, however, never usually agrees with the stuff you put out on the View. This time you have done it.  We agree on one point, to hell with this shared blame stuff for hate speech. The problem is that you got that much right but the wrong offender. You and your Democrats in bondage do all (100%) of the hate speech which incites the crazies to kill to protect their delusions. You wrongly try to avoid blame by redefining what is hate speech.  All criticism or verbal exposes of the negative policy results from Democrat control is now hate speech, in your world.

Whoopi, your world is not the real world. You are an actor and a good one. But please, keep the dander flying.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

Credentials

Is it not likely (99 44/100 %) that the words of Jesus which may have been, “this is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6)”, later became interpreted to be an “I am” saying by the succeeding believing communities? Did Jesus mean to say that the billions of people worldwide must all believe in this, “I am” God, the Jesus God in the flesh, as the only hope for finding the only true spiritual reality and an eternal future?  Is Christianity, as faith in the Christ God, the only truly authorizes spiritual reality?  I wonder if we will have to check our credentials at the Pearly Gates? 

Some of us should just get over it!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.