Subject: Please I'm looking for your opinion! |
Bible Note: John You still view our relationship with God not as a Father child relationship but rather as a manipulative. One where God being God causes us to do what He desires. That is very limiting to both us and God. We have talked about how it limits us we become more or less puppets. But it really limits God. You reduce Him from all knowing, all seeing, all mighty to someone that can't react to His child but must rather control them. I believe there is nothing we can or can not do that limits God, you on the other hand feel God is limited in some way and must make us react as He planned. In other words if God wanted us to take a package across the street you feel God through the leading of the Holy Spirit would impress us to take the package across the street and we would be unable to resist doing anything other than that. I feel that if God wanted us to take the package across the street He would plant that in us but we could to chose whether we would heed that call. If we did fine however if we did not God through circumstances would either modify what we choose to do. Eventually leading us to doing just that or would use a more willing individual, blessing them and let us learn the blessing we missed by not doing God's will initially. God is a Father, a real Father doesn’t try to control his children, a real Father teaches His children. A father wants to see his children mature and be able to stand on what he has taught them not by him propping them up. By trying to give God so much sovereignty you actually limit Him. God can overcome anything we do or don’t do. That is why he is God. He gives us free choice and then accomplishes what He desires with or with out us. In your world you have removed all your responsibility. You don’t have to learn to hear God, God will make you hear him. You don’t have to be the obedient servant God will make you one. You don’t have to have burden for prayer God will give it to you. John in your world you can’t fail because we all know God never fails, therefore by contributing everything that happens or doesn’t happen to God you have made yourself fail proof. It would be great if that was the way it was! However we have skin in the game and our actions are our own God is God enough to react and handle anything we do or don’t do. John view God as a Father not an as you presently do. EdB |