Balance is the basis of life on Earth. Life is balanced by death. Male by female. Inhaling oxygen is balanced by exhaling carbon dioxide. Eating is balanced by expelling. Work and rest balance each other. And so on.
Yet, away from Earth, the heavenly bodies do orbit inexorably, ineluctably onward without rest or death; without gender and without food or breath, forever.
Why then would our God ever have need for rest; ever grow weary; ever manifest gender or emotion, since God's heavens do not require such?
Perhaps, and only perhaps, our God is a God of Earth only, and not of all creation.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
AN EARTHLY GOD?
AN EARTHLY GOD?
Balance is the basis of life on Earth. Life is balanced by death. Male by female. Inhaling oxygen is balanced by exhaling carbon dioxide. Eating is balanced by expelling. Work and rest balance each other. And so on.
Yet, away from Earth, the heavenly bodies do orbit inexorably, ineluctably onward without rest or death; without gender and without food or breath, forever.
Why then would our God ever have need for rest; ever grow weary; ever manifest gender or emotion, since God's heavens do not require such?
Perhaps, and only perhaps, our God is a God of Earth only, and not of all creation.
Balance is the basis of life on Earth. Life is balanced by death. Male by female. Inhaling oxygen is balanced by exhaling carbon dioxide. Eating is balanced by expelling. Work and rest balance each other. And so on.
Yet, away from Earth, the heavenly bodies do orbit inexorably, ineluctably onward without rest or death; without gender and without food or breath, forever.
Why then would our God ever have need for rest; ever grow weary; ever manifest gender or emotion, since God's heavens do not require such?
Perhaps, and only perhaps, our God is a God of Earth only, and not of all creation.