12) In this chapter there is one paragraph that sticks out to me the most. On page 66, second full paragraph, it tells about one of the differences about the way people say the world In the Bible rather than the way we see it today. While we see natural laws, they saw God's glory. This paragraph hit me, and make me wonder why did things change. At what point did we as a people's lean away from religion, and tried to stand on our own two legs. It makes me sad that we have strayed so far from religion, and have plugged our ears with our own junk.
13) The same question has hit me on page 71 of chapter 13. It starts with what would happen if some watcher or holy one were to come to earth after spending glad sentries by the sea of fire. He would see our daily chatter as meaningless. What happened to the fear of God. The fear of The Perfect One looking at us in all our iniquities. I am very sad to see our world today where we fight over each other meaninglessly. Where we think we are so great that the tiniest thing like being cut off on the road or someone bumping into you just puts you into a rage. Where are we as a people today? I believe we are farther away from God than ever before, but why? The veil keeping us from Him has been torn, we can comet o him freely, but why are we so far off? Why do we no longer see God the way people of old did?
Daran: thank you for your thoughts. I'll only reply to the ch. 13 point you made on the world being worse and "the people of old" had it better. That is a pretty common assumption; I've held it and perhaps I still do at times, if I'm honest. I think we romanticize about the "old days", but with that comes the assumption that human nature has somehow changed for the worse. We're just as bad as we have been, but with sin taking different forms; or, we've got some sins we struggle with more than others. Though Paul speak of "growing bad to worse" in 2 Tim. 3:13 - so there is something there.
ReplyDeleteI think, too, that we look to the sins of the culture as a means of insulating ourselves from it, which helps us cope with our own failures and sin. how much of the way "people are today" are the very things we struggle with? We breathe the same air and drink the same water, so we are "touched" by it all. But then again, we turn to different eras as a means of allowing their voice (God through them) speak to us so we can repent and seek greater conversion.