8932	Forums / Theology Forum / Is Theology Your God?	on: June 19, 2006, 04:47:00 PM
See our problem is us. Its the way we think, the bent we have to believe in our corruption and that disposition of insane loves that causes us to lose heart and succumb to this numbness. We vacillate between trusting in our ability to accomplish our own righteousness, and the utter feeling of helplessness in having a deep longing for Gods presence because we embrace idol tendencies, fearful worries, self confident desires, and a deceptive self awareness that infects all of our relationships. We are self protective, overly self conscious, and selfishly independent. In this state we are very receptive to idols. We fear the very thing we worship, we long for the very thing that causes us to be self deceived, we trust in the very person who is finite, and we live in this state of self awareness insecurity thinking that this is a normal generated social identification that makes a necessary function of acceptance by others.  The truth is we are finite beings whose existence is given to us by God who always existed. We live and move and have our being in God. The  beginning of us was minded by God before before we existed. We are dependent on God outside of time for our existence in time. And yet all things have their origin from God and are moved by God , by having their end purpose already determined in eternity. What we experience in time is already determined before time at the moment we experience it and so it is ordered by God who does everything perfect. There really is no self determined existence in the creature. We are swallowed up in the beauty of all of Gods purposes and we as believers are able to experience the pleasure of that glory of God. We make things so difficult by thinking so irrationally.