Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Absolutes vs. Subjectivity

Have always approached God and my faith as Absolute.
Was in an absolute environment: ie. THIS is what God is like- I just need to learn it, absorb it, take notes, get in line with it.
God is who He is- He doesn't change; I must change and become more like Him.

Now I'm thinking, God may indeed be "absolute" in His character- but our understanding of God, our ideas of him are not absolute.
I hadn't separated God from our ideas of God. I treated the teaching of my church leaders as somehow absolute; their ideas of God as being one and the same with God.
That's why it's so important to question.
Same with my faith- there is no one way to practice faith, or Christianity

I need to start thinking as though my faith is mine to shape-- what kind of faith do I want to practice? I should think this way, because when I do, I ask much better and more probing questions- and I get to know my real self, my own mind

So from here on in- there are no absolutes, no sacred cows in how I will practice faith, nothing I HAVE TO do; everything can be questioned

I don't feel that I am actually questioning God himself, but rather, my idea of God.

Setting the subjectivity of our knowledge at the forefront of my mind

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