Supreme Reality..
Theology/Eternal Reality & Purpose of Everything.
–adapted from John Eldredge, based 99% on reason, 1% on the Bible. AKA, “Not to be preached.” (but i’ll still blog it??)
I really have a basic premise of all everything:
1) Trinity: 3 persons, inter-dependent on each other,(otherwise he’d be polytheistic?) eternal, united in love.
& when you’ve got a good thing going, you want to share it.
2) God then created his angels (also dependent?, fully able to decide) to share in this.
Angel’s reaction: Awe.
1 angel’s reaction: desire for it. “Being a PART of it wasn’t enough”
3) War ensues. a third of angels is banished by force(revelation 20-ish?), but the enemy isn’t proven wrong by force. He will be proven wrong by choice.
4) Creation of the earth is to
1) bring dependent, everlasting creatures into enjoyment of Him
2) show/answer the enemy:
a) God is always/still the better option
b) love wins over force.
Thus, our supreme goal as humans is to be united in Him, by His love, through the introduction into His life (through the justification by Jesus, since God is holy — a single act of denial of the ‘god(read false god, enemy) of this world’) & enjoyment of that life of/in Him(continual act of denial of the ‘god of this world’) ['denial of' meaning, "agreeing that God is life, not the enemy"]
& to ‘display for all creation’ the enemy is a liar. Logically, all God has to do to “prove the enemy wrong”(not that he has to prove ‘im wrong) is have 1 person choose Him over the enemy. (Read: Adam & Eve)
Please don’t read this as ‘normal christianity’. It might be, but it’s mostly philosophical. I just like to think too much. & this is a nice organization of all I understand about christianity.
Jim said,
August 28, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Hm, I think it sounds pretty solid and holds up theologically. I like your bit about one angel’s reaction was a desire for it, since being a part of it wasn’t enough for him. Isn’t that the way we as humans often are? We experience something (and this could be anything at all, not just an experience with God) and rather than simply sitting back and enjoying it, we want more of it. We want to dominate it, control it, bend it to our will and make it our own – in a sense, reshaping it in our own image. And that’s exactly what Lucifer tried to do and failed. It was bigger than him and always would be. He didn’t understand that, and so he fell and took so many with him.
fadingdust said,
August 28, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Hmm.. control. Yup. You’ll notice my other post about that. The prayer I included in there seems to be a good one- teach me & open my eyes of faith to see beyond the lie that I run my life & circumstances are under my control. I won’t react to painfully when I keep those emotions & thoughts in check with truth.