Is God Open?
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Re: Is God Open?
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In my opinion, I think you're trying too hard to humanise God, to bring him down to our level and to make Him feel familiar. Granted, everyone is allowed their opinion of God. And God, I believe, is what we make Him out to be.
Your challenge of the accepted Christian thought of God and your open portrayal of Him are both commendable, if you ask me. I believe we should all rethink who God is to us, instead of just accepting previously established dogma.
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Beautiful post! I completely agree!!Nicole_Boyd wrote: ↑19 Jun 2020, 12:23 I think God does limit himself. I believe He is all-powerful but he chose to limit himself when he came to earth. Who could stand before Him in all his power and glory, he had to cover Moses’ eyes when he passed before him or else he would have died. It’s a beautiful tension isn’t it? An all-powerful God choosing to meet us where we are as humans in the form of Jesus Christ and yet still display what is possible when we partner with Him?
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There is much truth in this! I agree!Crcraig wrote: ↑22 Jun 2020, 06:54 The only limits to God are what we, as humans, place on him. God has no limits. You can't put him in a box. Think about the universe, the complexity of nature and how it all seems to work together, about our bodies and how everything functions together. God can create anything. He gave us free will so we can choose to love Him, not blindly follow.
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Very true post!ohlendorfbe wrote: ↑22 Jun 2020, 10:36 God doesn't make mistakes. Even when the Son became a man, He made no mistakes because He was sinless. So God didn't make a mistake when He created man. Your idea of an open God is very interesting, but I don't think "open" is the right word. God is immutable, unchangeable - but He is also all-loving and forgives us for any wrongdoing. Sometimes that's hard to understand, but God is God and therefore we can't limit him to what our finite minds can understand.
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Perhaps, this connects to what you were saying about His decision to limit Himself. The only way I could reconcile such a paradox with Christianity is by thinking of the definition of all-powerful in another way. Maybe it is the ultimate show of power to allow the creation of such an item, to control and to decide to create or not to create such a weapon. Maybe it is power itself to grant the existence and allowance of such a demise.
Either way, this talk of God's "open" ways brings this to mind.
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