{"id":7783,"date":"2025-12-28T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:31:49","slug":"desperate-to-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"DESPERATE TO UNDERSTAND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man wants to understand God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man desperately tries to understand God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man thinks that more words to explain God will help us understand God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man wants God to fit our thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man wants God to be like us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We assign human factors to God. *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man wants to make God to be in our image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Almighty God does not, will not, fit the many terms (boxes) we have created for Him&#8212;and since man knows there is God&#8212;and since man must have a god, man is compelled to create gods that do fit what we say god should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a fine line, parallel, between theologians creating extra-biblical terms to explain the God of the Bible<br>AND<br>Pagans creating hundreds of obviously ridiculous gods to worship and make sacrifice to please their god(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality, which is more ridiculous&#8212;having the Truth and adding to it&#8212;or not having the Truth and inventing it ?<br>And, important point, pagans are not limited to places where they actually craft wood and stone and metal objects to worship.<br>&#8216;Theologians&#8217; of all stripes create their explanations for what they worship&#8212;and then worship their explanations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The educated God (god) scholars have invented boxes for each of their well-defined doctrines&#8212;<br>&#8212;and man, by nature, buys it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE ONLY BOX FIT FOR GOD IS THE BIBLE ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They vehemently defend their &#8216;sacred doctrines&#8217; like they come straight from the Bible.<br>How about just organic &#8220;straight from the Bible&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proof of straight from the Bible or not&#8212;Does the average listener know which words from the theologians are God&#8217;s Words and which are man&#8217;s words ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That distinction is blurred !&#8212;<br>&#8212;MUCH TO OUR SPIRITUAL DETRIMENT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AND, accepting theologians&#8217; wording as &#8216;gospel truth&#8217; leads to more depending on their words&#8212;more than digging in God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>person, &#8220;three persons, one essence&#8221;, &#8220;unity and diversity&#8221;, &#8220;revealed truth&#8221; not in the Bible &#8220;that invites believers into a deeper relationship with God&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man wants to understand God. Man desperately tries to understand God. Man thinks that more words to explain God will help us understand God. &#8211; Man wants God to fit our thinking. Man wants God to be like us. We assign human factors to God. * Man wants to make God to be in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}