To Be as God; "Are you sure?"

To Be as God IS;  “Are you sure?”

You may often hear the words, “If I was God; I’d do this!”  Really?  Think for a moment this realism of keeping the world together in spite of our human weaknesses must look like a jar of peanuts rolling around waiting to be spilled out across the planet with no direction.  The very scenario God spoke to Job about his questioning creation:  “Where were you there when I founded the earth?  Tell me, if you have any understanding.  Who determined its size;  do you know?  Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness?  (Jb 38: 4, 17 - 18).  Adding this last verse to settle Job’s inquiry about everything good or bad.

Think of forgiveness as a platitude sought after when our head rises above the sand and we realize the sinner Nathan was referring to regarding the poor man with one small ewe lamb and the rich man who devoured the poor man’s treasured lamb was you!  “David.”  (2 Sam 12: 1 - 7).

David, God’s choicest king commits: Adultery, murder, and yet the forerunner of the reality of Chris’s Incarnating himself for David’s sins and ours as well.  David was in God as a chosen Son to give posterity to Jesus.

If one claims to be “in God” means he is like God in some ways more than the normal person.  Then I would question him by asking, “Do you have adversaries that you cannot tolerate or even have a hatred for what they promote; and you would like to smother their desires with pain and ostracization?  You cannot be like God since that is not his way.  It is impossible for God to hate even the worst person in humanity since that would be a contradiction of God.  He is so perfect and holy hatred is impossible with the Loving God who created us.  Even when the disciples saw others casting out demons in your name and  who did not belong to their group and wanted Jesus to silence them; Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him.  There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me?”  (Mk 9: 38 - 39).  

When we believe that it’s alright to hate another human being that makes us his judge.  James says in regard to judging:  “If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.  There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save or destroy.  Who are you to judge your neighbor?”  (Jas 4: 11 - 12).

Ralph B. Hathaway