In looking at the scope of the human-divine relationship in the Bible, people do not change, while God changes. People were stupid from the beginning, and still are today (and joyful and naive and murderous and compassionate and courageous and selfish and jealous and wonderfully human). God's approach to dealing with these infuriatingly stubborn people changed a great deal over time.
It's not that God changed in essence - what we know of God's essence is quite limited, mediated as it is by the historical person of Jesus and myriad interpretations thereof, by stories written and told and edited and lost and found over millennia, by personal experiences and visions and feelings of spirit impossible to articulate or recreate. But to the extent that we know God through Christian faith, life, and Scripture, God changes in relation to us while we remain as described above.
It occurs to me that given all this, I should add "and hubristic" to the list of consistent human attributes above, you know, just to cover my bases.
It occurs to me that given all this, I should add "and hubristic" to the list of consistent human attributes above, you know, just to cover my bases.
This thought fits perfectly into the blog label category "unexpected," as it happens. I mean, I was in the shower. Shouldn't I have been thinking of shampoo, or singing about Kokomo, or something similarly mundane?
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