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    %GOD CONTROL UNIVERSE LOVE ADDICT POWER CORRUPT 900617

     It  has often been said that God is omnipotent and in
control  of all things.   Is this the projection into  the
realm  of the spirit of addictive images of human  fathers
who seek to be in control of what they cannot control?

     Is God the supreme addict who can control all things?

     Is  the  question  of  the range of  God's  power  to
control an integrative or disintegrative question? Perhaps
the  question is misleading.   What color is  God's  skin?
What  color are God's eyes?   What color is His hair?  How
much  weight  can God lift?   Do these questions make  any
sense?  If not, does it make sense to ask how much can God
control; especially in the light of addicts' preoccupation
with  being in control?   Is asking the question a symptom
of being in an addictive society with such preoccupations?

     We  need to be careful that we do not conceive God in
the  image  of addictive fathers!   Such a  conception  is
disintegrative  in  the  way  it  misleads  our  thoughts,
feelings and attitudes.   The God of Love is not likely to
be the God of Control.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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