“God remains humanity’s greatest disappointment.”
~ Dallas Willard
If you have your ear to the ground or your eyes on the screen, you will see a daily avalanche of mere mortals cursing, damning, and blaming the eternal God for everything that’s wrong in the world.
If people treat Him this way, while He is invisible, what would happen if He made Himself visible, like so many say they want?
They’d no doubt kill Him!
Wait . . .
He did.
And they did.
Then Jesus told Thomas, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
~ John 20:29
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The greatest disappointment in my life was believing in God. I used to wonder who was to blame for rejecting Christ and crucifying him, and all the rapes, murders and bad things that were happening including the natural disasters. I was told it was Adams sin and because I was born into sin it now was down to me I was guilty. I had no choice in it just guilty by birth.It should never have been a blame game but we should never behave indifferently this causes all the grief in the world .I don’t blame God for anything ..I just don’t believe in him anymore…and it hurts..life sucks
God could have easily created a world where there would be no pain, no suffering, no evil. All He had to do was to create humans without the ability to choose. He’d have robots of course, but the world would be perfect. The idea that a person’s choice to do evil things is someone else’s fault instead of their own is an idea that most Christians reject.
Life *is* horrible without Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The Lover and Healer of our souls.
Take a fresh and new look at Him here http://ptmin.podbean.com/e/epic-jesus-the-christ-you-never-knew and here https://www.frankviola.org/TasteTestDIMJ.pdf
If that’s not reality, I don’t know what is.
Wow. Brief but powerful article.
When we look into the history of people groups worldwide, we see the pattern Paul describes in Romans 1 where He is demeaned, disregarded and degraded. This shows up in the unknown God story that Paul knew from the classical Greek writers. God hid His name from the Oracle at Delphi and did not let the Athenians know because they had so degraded His name and reputation. We, in the church, need to take Him up on His offer to “know Him, from the least to the greatest” so we can disambiguate Him to a world, desparately in need to be brought near.
Great comment!