The Trinity pt. 2: The Incarnate Son
Jesus saves us from our puny imaginations. Theologically, this is what we need assistance with: Not seeing God from within our own crap. The story of our crap is a long and complicated one. Most of it begins in childhood. We all know that children are vulnerable and susceptible to the attitudes, words and habits of their parents and caregivers. This is a grievous fact. We will mess up our kids, on some level. We're messed up. They're messed up. It's a perfect combination for inducing all matter of anxiety, attachment problems, defense mechanisms, maladjustments and other psychology words. When these messed up people think about God , who transcends time and space and neurobiology, they do so from within their mental and emotional funk. I'd venture to guess that's why many Christians and non-Christians don't like God. I mean why would we? He's always out to get us, hunting for wrongdoing, spying on our secrets, and making us feel all warm and gooey guil...