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%GOD'S ROLE 770220
God offers to free each generation from the folly of
its own particular forms of arrogance. Each generation has
its own ways of trying to ignore its finitude---occasioned
by the limitations of its chosen languages and chosen
conceptions of the ultimate nature of reality. Each tends
to see many of its blessings as flowing from its own
transcendence over previous generations' limitations with
respect to knowledge, understanding, perspectives, skills,
resources, dedication, language, world-view, virtue,
purity, or power of transcendence. God offers to each
generation to lift the burden of having the responsibility
for having provided blessings---so each may praise a power
beyond --- from whom all blessing flow. Many insist on
carrying that burden --- and are crushed by it. Their
pride goes before their fall and occasions it.
Some attribute to God the legalistic codes by which
they seek to assure proper conformity---and thereby tend
to attribute to evil powers God's judgements which flow
contrary to their chosen legalism. They are cut off from
God.
Some attribute to God the natural laws which they
have chosen as being most basic in their conception of the
ultimate unchanging nature of an eternal reality---and
thereby tend to block more blessed changing perceptions of
a dynamic reality, which by grace might be chosen, and
realized; for humane reasons which transcend objectivity
and logic.
Some attribute to God the lifestyle they encountered
in their own childhood---and thereby block visions of
dynamic living which involves greater intimacy, openness,
honesty, forgiveness, generosity, sharing, vulnerability,
hope, joy, trust, faith, and love.
Some attribute to God need for their particular
services --- and volunteer to represent God to the un-
enlightened; offering to them salvation in return for
conformity to some static lifestyle which presumably is
ordained by God.
To all such arrogant persons God offers the freedom
to accept their own finitude, and to cope honestly within
a reality which is constantly being transformed by Love in
the eternal now of I-Thou relationships. Few like the
terms of the offer.
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