Posted on 09/16/2011 1:37:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Strange but true, dear Mind-numbed Robot!
God — Truth — simply transcends all our human imaginings.
BTW, I really warm to your insight that God is Verb, and His Creation Nouns. In Genesis, God gave Adam the privilege of naming all the creatures He made. Of course, names are nouns....
To me this is evidence that God views man as somehow His partner....
Is God a constant? Did God create man in his image? Or is God himself somehow evolving through our experiences and insights?
He probably looks down and says... “No way I evolved from them thugs! No way!”
I’m just tossing out questions here, no reason for anyone to get bent!
My understanding is that God IS absolutely self-subsistent, unchanging and eternal Being.
And He made us in His image (i.e., as having reason and free will).
Our understanding of God may "evolve" (as He prompts it). Indeed, that's what the fides quaerens intellectum is all about.
But His essential Being, and His Nature, are "constant"; that is, not in any way, shape, or form dependent on our "evolving" experiences and insights.
This is my understanding.
God's Name is I AM.
If God is unchanging, we have nothing to contribute, we can neither please him or disappoint him. What need or want would he have for us?
There's no way we can "please" or "disappoint" Him, because He already knows who we are, and knows what we are thinking even before we do.
He knows who and what we are "in our hearts," from first to last.
He does not need any "contribution" from us to be Who He IS.
As to "What need or want would he have for us?" — He wants relationship with His sons, who He made out of love, for love.
This is my understanding.
If God is unchanging, we have nothing to contribute, we can neither please him or disappoint him. What need or want would he have for us?
Keep in mind that God is Spirit, Energy. God is Love, Truth, and Light (Illumination). Did He create our Spirit in His image? Yes! Is that Love, Truth, and Light constant? Yes!
Is God constant? Constant can mean several things. God is faithful in His promises to man. Is He rigid? Only in that Justice is rigid. God created the Universe in a way that we punish and reward ourselves. Is that constant? Well, it is predictable.
Can we please or disappoint God? What is Love? That is your answer.
Pray earnestly and ask for God's guidance. You will get it.
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