Friday, February 1, 2013

The question is, have we good reason to believe we are even in the same ballpark as God when it comes to the values we hold dear?  The idea that God's thoughts are not our thoughts, His ways not our ways, has been used as a cudgel to beat into abject submission any who question a Deity's right to save whom He will and damn whom He will, to bless or curse as He chooses, to have His own heavenly notions about what is good and right.
In actual fact, it makes little sense to recognize in our conscience a reliable guide to what is virtuous, lovely, and praiseworthy in the world where god has placed us, while suggesting He inhabits a different moral universe...As the character in Elie Wiesel's play, The Trial of God, protests, if our truth "is not His as well, then He's worse than I thought.  Then it would mean that He gave us the taste, the passion of truth without telling us that this truth is not true."

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 19

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