Religion
Tell me what you think about the following quote:
"The cross and its real meaning -reconciliation as God's initiative and act - is antagonistic to all human religious aspirations and ends, for the tendency of all human religious striving is to possess and conquer God, to realize our divine nature (theosis). Christ is not the fulfillment of this but the uncovering of its self-assertive nature, and at the same time the rebirth to a completely opposite condition, the fellowship of reconciliation with God."
"The cross and its real meaning -reconciliation as God's initiative and act - is antagonistic to all human religious aspirations and ends, for the tendency of all human religious striving is to possess and conquer God, to realize our divine nature (theosis). Christ is not the fulfillment of this but the uncovering of its self-assertive nature, and at the same time the rebirth to a completely opposite condition, the fellowship of reconciliation with God."
posted by Michael D. Estes | 6:42 AM
1 Comments:
Do all human beings really want to conquer God? Besides being creepy and very heretical, that implies a wrong understanding of the nature of God. Make that no understanding of God at all. The whole idea of the very word "god" is that He is superior. And yet the idea of theosis has been around a long time, maybe starting with Greco-Roman mythology where men were sometimes related to or superior to some of the gods. BUT this is still misinterpretation.
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