Highlights of Life

This morning, as I read some blogs on the net, some questions crossed my mind. Or more truthfully, I was disturbed reading the posts. Disturbed, not in a good, inspired and awesome way, but more disturbed in a shocked negative way by the heretical teachings I had come to peruse.

First the notion of God being male or female. The blogger was interchangably using God as he/she, him/her, it/they/them etc. I think God is beyond being put into this little gender box. To argue male or female would be a futile argument. BUT – given that the Bible does take the notion of referring to God as “He”, and “Father” rather than “she” and “Mother”, it would be prudent to continue that line of thinking. To be inordinately caught up in society’s “politically correct” atmosphere and use “politically correct” terms seems to be bit of a fool’s argument.

Second, the notion of quieting one’s mind to the point of emptying it out. To me, that seems a teeny weeny bit dangerous. Emptying oneself to the point of being a blank slate, seems to be what non-Christian monks did to meditate and reach a higher level of “enlightenment”. To fall into this vague and mindless and pointless state of just “being”… and to be constantly be “in that moment” throughout one’s day and life seems to have very little usefulness.

Meditating on God’s words is a good idea. Prayerfully being quiet while praying, to hearing God’s words, is also a good idea. But to completely and empty oneself every single moment of the day, without filling up on God’s teachings… what exactly is the purpose???

There were more things in the blogger’s post that were disturbing as well. The notion that church, by the mere fact of having become an institution, was inherently bad.  It was not the construct that Jesus intended it to be, and therefore it was bad.  As a Christian, I have to respond by saying that we should know better and understand that church is not an institution, or an organization, but rather the body of God.  It serves to edify, and serve other members in the body.  However, being such a large group of people, it may become organized into a structure and function in a certain manner.  This doesn’t necessarily mean it is inherently evil or terrible.

Anyways, I really should read things more edifying, than blogs that may contain nothing more than mere fools gold, so early in the morning.  Perhaps it was just a blogger full of hippies with heretical ideas.  Who knows.