Excellent. The Good News ain't news from nowhere--that is, it is not utopian, it's grounded in the lived experience of a real human being who taught us what real equality and the grace that goes with it might look like. But as God, as Spirit, he (or whatever pronoun you prefer) is the unknowable Other as well. There is a difference, and it's worth holding onto and living with, no matter how paradoxical it sounds, for it opens the way to treating all Others as your equal.
I sure learn a lot of new words related to religion when I read these. I like the message of social justice and your arguments are persuasive. I think cleaning up their own "houses" is the first step and we are far from that.
Excellent. The Good News ain't news from nowhere--that is, it is not utopian, it's grounded in the lived experience of a real human being who taught us what real equality and the grace that goes with it might look like. But as God, as Spirit, he (or whatever pronoun you prefer) is the unknowable Other as well. There is a difference, and it's worth holding onto and living with, no matter how paradoxical it sounds, for it opens the way to treating all Others as your equal.
I sure learn a lot of new words related to religion when I read these. I like the message of social justice and your arguments are persuasive. I think cleaning up their own "houses" is the first step and we are far from that.