Comments on The Pensive Quill: God's Poem

Roderick, I’m afraid not. This is pure theology an...

2009-12-06T10:04:06.269Z

Roderick, I’m afraid not. This is pure theology and has no basis in anything material or scientific. Distinctions between sovereignty and character are meaningless in the context of a god that is supposed to be indivisible. The god led to the cross is one of many knocking around at the time claiming some special status. Revelation cannot be very revealing given that the words that revealed were written long after the existence of what was later revealed.

It is a terrible personal tragedy for your friend. But a vision is not proof of the presence of Christ but proof of a human being thinking they saw something. At the moment there is a man in Ireland who has caused people to be blinded by the sun because he claims to have seen the mother of god and has the crowd gazing skyward on the promise of a repeat performance. There are less criminally negligent in jail.

I can never reconcile the god of Nazi Germany and Rwanda with a loving creator. For that reason I could never love the concept Jesus. What we knew of in advance and failed to stop we are must bear responsibility for.

Why does god have to break in? Has he lost the keys and needs to find another way into his property? And if he has, then how is he omniscient? And if he is not omniscient he is not god.

Jesus the god is myth, Roderick, to help us cope with the dark of what does not lie beyond. I am quite happy that at the end of my days it is the end. My lack of faith sustains me. I worry not about what lies beyond. There is as much for me there as there is for one of the fish reeled in off Alaska yesterday.

I like the poem. However, I have a 'but'. ...

2009-12-05T21:33:36.850Z

I like the poem. However, I have a 'but'. It's that God's sovereignty is never to be stressed above his character (and it has been here). The God who is led to the cross is the Christian revelation of who God is. I have a friend, mother of two children, 5 and 2 year olds, in fourth stage cancer. She is beautiful, with her lymphatic arm, drug confused mind, horrific pain. My wife had a vision of Jesus with a shaved head and a swollen arm in complete union with her in her suffering. That is God/Jesus.
We can reconcile the suffering world and the goodness of God, we just can't have a God who is fully in control, at least not at the moment. And he isn't. Right now the world is under the control of shits (not to put to fine a point on it). God is breaking in, but look what happened when he came - he got crucified. There is no remote standoff-ness in Jesus' engagement with us - and he can take our kicks and our pain and anger about the state of things. But get this, it is his sovereignty that is temporarily limited, not his character that is deficient. You'd love him!

dedicated to all those superior clerics, incy winc...

2009-12-05T14:47:51.848Z

dedicated to all those superior clerics, incy wincy spider sitting on a wall. you think your smart,you know fuck all. your sitting on a wall,thats just been plastered, now your stuck you stupid bastard. Marty F

I have not believed in the IRA since the death of ...

2009-12-04T23:45:05.381Z

I have not believed in the IRA since the death of Jean McConville.
Many a man, woman or child has been maimed by the IRA and its no good saying The Loyalists did it first or did it more. We must each take responsibility for our own actions. I believe in Ireland, obviously you do too. Ireland has known such pain while men and women concentrated on hating the English children were being abuse in our Churches. The poem shows a cruel and careless God, well look around you and thank whichever god you believe in that your daughter is safe, well and happy. I sincerely hope you and yours will grow and prosper in peace.