How I imit God

To start with a usable typo in the title can be a serendipitous rush. But why should'nt I tackle both the question of how I imitate God and how I limit God, both of which may precourse how I emit God and so the thing gets rolling. I was making the usual rounds, checking my lists, you know, when I stumbled upon the
Saecula
titled 'The Holy Father'. Anastasia, the author wonders in print why she dislikes Calvin and loves Foucalt. I, not knowing much of Foucalt, and limited Calvin other than by religious exerience in a Southern Baptist Church, think anyone, Calvin, Foucalt,or else, trying to limit God, is working very hard at making a god they can easily imitate and therefrom something they are familiar with, and so I see that perhaps both Foucalt and Calvin are the same in ways we have very little method of proofing much less proving.

First, God is not a something I can define completely and is independent of that which I define Him by, other than as He has made known to me and I have realized tested by the similar recounts of countless others and His immaculate Word. On the other hand God is more than I will ever recall and has never allowed me to be completely cognizant of His toal essence. I believe this is in part the lesson of the Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. While we can never know His intent in placing that tree there, we can surmise that perhaps He intended to take that fruit, much as my grandfather would take an apple, when I was young, and peel it, slice it into small pieces, and feed me just enough to sate a hunger and leave me a desire, a curiosity, to consider more a viable alternative. Having not allowed me to overstuff myself on sweet juicy pulp, or to choke myself on tough untenable skin, the experience was pleasant and an edifice to all concerned.

In further support for this supposition is that, assuming the fruit was tasty, surely Adam and Eve overindulged upon its unfamiliar savor and substance, accumulating discomfort rather than satisfaction, which manifests itself today in reflexive preventive effort, as the tendency of the church to resist scientific facts and adversely to adhere to superstition.

It is dangerous to determine that God is no more than what I know or might know, and it is likewise dangerous to assume that any and thereby all description of God is healthy. In the Garden, Eve was sincere but wrong in saying that to touch was to die, for surely Adam was to care for that tree as well as any other. Satan on the other hand though misleading was correct to say 'surely you will not die', if we assume he means that God will provide an out(but will you take it?).

The question of foreknowledge--predestination--is one best answered with scripture such as 1 Peter 1:2 while tempering that edge with the very story we used in the beginning. God is bigger than my complaint, He is able to overcome my objection, but how? Jonah was desperate, he called out to God for help and God responded. Was Jonah coerced into obedience? Suffice it to say he was convinced otherwise than he first decided. But what of Israel the nation? Over and over and over and again God was faithful and forgiving while His people were sinful.

As an individual I have my will but if I give up my will then I have made a choice. By giving up will I continue to make choices but in accepting God's Will then my choices are made for me and that Divine Will becomes my will and so I have the Free Will but then where is choice? My choice should be made already but if I make a bad choice, I must return to Divine Will in order to draw closer,again, to God. Bad choices are what separate us from the Divine Will, so forgiveness, through the sprinkling of Jesus' blood, is the only thing which allows us into to the Divine Relationship.

Now as to the elect, the chosen of God known from before the foundation of the Earth by God, how is it that God has said we must go therefore into all the earth teaching them whatsoever He has taught us and Baptising them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost? He is sovereign and while determined that all be given the opportunity to reunite with Him, He is not deterministic, he gives us the opportunituy to ignore Him,

While we will find some seeming already in tune with God and having knowledge of Him and needing perhaops only to confess His Name and be baptised, there are many who are in much ignorance of Him and yet quite acquainted with evil and that way, so that it is through prayer and discipleship and example that we become able to demonstrate and tell that which God would have these outsiders know that they might have the opportunity to become in right fellowship and relationship with God.