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God is always a mystery to men and women. They have
a tendency to regard God as another pole in a possible
relationship; an object/subject-like person characterized
by consciousness, thought, feeling, decisions; existing in
space-time. To do so is to elevate an element of reality
to a position of transcending reality of which it is a
part. This is the occasion for many difficulties in the
perception of the nature of reality, and of the
relationships which make it what it is.
It has been said that God is Love. Love is not a
pole in a possible relationship. Love is relationship.
The opposite of love is the absence of meaningful
relationship. Love is relationship in which there is no
blockage to mutual awareness and mutual understanding. The
opposite of love is extreme blockage of mutual awareness
and understanding; a condition variously called
estrangement, alienation, excommunication, banishment,
insanity, sin, and fallen. The opposite of love is not
another pole in a possible relationship; an
object/subject, like a person characterized by
consciousness, thought, feeling, decisions; existing in
space-time. The opposite of love is not the Devil.
Objectification of the opposite of love follows naturally
from the objectification of love. To say that love is
God, and God is a person, is to open the door to saying
that the opposite of God is a person called the Devil.
This opens the door to an eternal war between the supreme
agent of good and the supreme agent of evil, and so to
continual wars between volunteers in the battle between
good and evil. By tradition, the volunteers in support of
the supreme agent of good, disobey the commandment that
they do not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil.
To worship God as an object, or even as a supreme
person, is to confuse human relationships. To know God as
Love manifested in loving personal relationships of
meeting basic human needs for health, freedom, bodily
sustenance, companionship; is true liturgy (work of
people) and true worship (worth-condition). True love has
integrity; uniting agape, philos, and eros in meaningful
personal relationships.
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