Yes, I think the parent model is fundamentally flawed, just as any model is. The intrinsic nature of a model is its lack of fluidity and boundaries. The more we learn about the nature of the divine, the less it is easily bound up in a single model.
I think if we see God as the culmination of love --that God has a proleptic nature, creating and beckoning us forward toward love, not pushing us through time from the past, whereby we are always looking over our shoulder and not ahead of us.
The idea of original sin is so faulty and thick with ambiguous implications, and yet it speaks toward our evil natures. None of us can ever be perfect or not hurt anyone. Life is suffering, and there is no way to escape this endless cycle of our own finitude, except through death. I think the idea that we are somehow perfectable through our own action is, well, just wrong. Perfectable over time with the assistance of that possible divine perfection intimately experienced through what the OT labeled as Shekinah, then perhaps, as one large organism working toward the same goal of "unified diversity", then perhaps. But as we are now so divided, so focused on our individualistic needs, our fears of change and differences and our mortality, then I am not hopeful.
Yeah, I have rambled WAY too long. I dont even remember what I was responding to.
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Date: 2006-05-10 05:09 pm (UTC)I think if we see God as the culmination of love --that God has a proleptic nature, creating and beckoning us forward toward love, not pushing us through time from the past, whereby we are always looking over our shoulder and not ahead of us.
The idea of original sin is so faulty and thick with ambiguous implications, and yet it speaks toward our evil natures. None of us can ever be perfect or not hurt anyone. Life is suffering, and there is no way to escape this endless cycle of our own finitude, except through death. I think the idea that we are somehow perfectable through our own action is, well, just wrong. Perfectable over time with the assistance of that possible divine perfection intimately experienced through what the OT labeled as Shekinah, then perhaps, as one large organism working toward the same goal of "unified diversity", then perhaps. But as we are now so divided, so focused on our individualistic needs, our fears of change and differences and our mortality, then I am not hopeful.
Yeah, I have rambled WAY too long. I dont even remember what I was responding to.