Learning From Others, Seeking The Way
An Emerging Viewpoint
YHWH is not Baal the bull, not a storm god, after all. He controls the weather, since he is its Creator, but he is not in any of its elements; he does not belong to the special effects. He is in us, the still, small voice, the murmuring of personal conscience. For once, we are given a description of the Voice that has played the central role in all our narratives, and it sounds quite other than what we might expect.
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There is no way around life and its sufferings. Our only choice is whether we will be consumed by the fire of our own heedless fears and passions or allow God to refine us in his fire and to shape us into a fitting instrument for his revelation, as he did Moshe.
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Praying is rattling God’s cage and waking God up and setting God free and giving this famished God water and this starved God food and cutting the ropes off God’s hands and the manacles off God’s feet and washing the caked sweat from God’s eyes and then watching God swell with life and vitality and energy and following God wherever God goes.
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Once a religion attains sufficient power in a society that the state looks to it for support, that religion must also, of necessity, join in the repression of the state’s enemies.
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The focus moves from ourselves to God, in whom we trust—what Jesus calls “dying” and “losing” our lives.
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The need for certainty is sin because it works off of fear and limits God to our mental images. And God does not like being boxed in. By definition, God can’t be. I believe we are prone to forget that.
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As twentieth-century mystic Simone Weil put it, the false God changes suffering into violence, the true God changes violence into suffering.
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Jesus simply declared people forgiven, confident that he spoke the mind of God (Mark 2: 1–12). Why, then, is a sacrificial victim necessary to make forgiveness possible? Doesn’t the death of Jesus reveal that all such sacrifices are unnecessary?
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old repressive values and delusional assumptions remain intact. What Jesus envisioned was a world transformed, where both people and Powers are in harmony with the Ultimate and committed to the general welfare—what some prefer to call the “kindom” of God.
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Learning From Others, Seeking The Way 