9251	Forums / Theology Forum / Is Theology Your God?	on: April 05, 2006, 06:36:00 AM
Quote Quote \"We are all one; why divide about these things? We must all come and stand together as Christians, and then we shall have power M L Jones.\" So MBG do you think thats what its about \"having power\"? I Don\'t. That is just more self serving and the using of god for self. Most of what I see in life is nothing more then worshiping an idea and at the same time selling to those who are willing to serve self that you are worshiping truth. I wonder what God really thinks about this creation. Gods idea of Himself is the reality of who He is -always. What ever idea God has, becomes reality. God has reveal the ideas in His revelation. He has given us a lively sense of that idea of who He is. We worship a God who reveals Himself through His ideas. No one has ever seen God. Yet we can know God through His revelation. Once He reveals Himself to us we have enough idea of who He is to know Him. "God seeking himself in the creation of the world in the manner which has been supposed, is so far from; being inconsistent with the good of its creatures, that it is a kind of regard to himself that inclines him to seek the good of his creature. It is a regard to himself that disposes him to diffuse and communicate himself. It is such a delight in his own internal fullness and glory, that disposes him to an abundant effusion and emanation of that glory. The same disposition, that inclines him to delight in his glory, causes him to delight in the exhibitions, expressions, and communications of it. If there were any person of such a taste and disposition of mind, that the brightness and light of the sun seemed unlovely to him, he would be willing that the sun’s brightness and light should be retained within itself. But they that delight in it, to whom it appears lovely and glorious, will esteem it an amiable and glorious thing to have it diffused and communicated through the world.Edwards