The historical Christian God statement goes something like the following. Our all-powerful God, the judge and ruler of all worlds, works an eternal future for all believers through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, while sitting on the remote God throne of eternity. Christian theologians call this God statement classical theism. Except for the last hundred or so years, this understanding has been the only Christian God understanding.
Christian
theologians have ventured into new territory of late because of the language of
science and evolution. Can God belief and our “as is” world coexist? This is “the”
question. Some say BoBo is not a recognized theologian scholar so he should just
shut up. Maybe so but the classically trained theologians, the experts, are
tied economically to Church speak and classical theism, making the possibility
of changing language and thinking risky business. Which voice is to be trusted?
BoBo is only
a theologian in the sense that all God believers are theologians, we must tell
our neighbors the "why" of our beliefs. Or do we? Maybe this is why Christianity
has lost much of its potency. The great tragedy of the Christian church is
silence from the pew because asking questions from the pew is also risky
business. Some of us do believe that faith is a menu to be talked about and
not the blind acceptance of whatever is on the menu.
BoBo and so many others are, however, kind of weird that way.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
