9281	Forums / Theology Forum / Is Theology Your God?	on: April 01, 2006, 06:23:54 AM
How can you know God unless you understand who He is by His word, and how can you understand His word unless you understand the propositional truth in His word. The problem here is not the Theology, but the people who miss use the theology. To ask the question Can theology be a God is to ask can God be God? The process of systematic thinking is not idolic in itself. It is in the nature of this thinking process that is antithetical to the nature of the thinking process of man in his fallen state. This process is informing on the thoughts of man and is a reversal of the fallen process of thinking in man whos well spring of truth comes from self- knowledge. There should be an all out determination to consume as much Theology as often as possible for a better transformation of the mind. The problem comes when we mis apply the nature of who God is as to who we are. Here is where we read things into theology,rather than be informed by theology so that it becomes the definition of who we are which will determine what we do. As well as consuming theology we need to practice the art of meditation on the word. There is a duel action in informing who we are in a mystical sense also. If i say that all christian experience ultimately starts from the inside and works it way to the outside then not being able to observe the inside of me by observation, not having the capability, then these inner workings in which scripture centers on must be understood by this two pronged transformation of the mind. If i just focus on meditation, then i will be twisted in the process of informing. If i just focus on theology then it will ultimately be a focus on the outward and will just degenerate into moralism.