Nothing of what I say here is going to be original. Honestly, it's about once in a millennium that a person has a new idea about God. Christianity had Augustine as our best theologian until . . . Thomas Aquinas? That was like 800 years! No, I'm not going to wow anyone here-- it's all been said.
In fact, I hope not to. If I can restate something that's been around for a long time in a way that speaks to you, that's the best I can do. I heard David Jeremiah once say something like "If you have a new idea about God, and you look into it and find out that NO ONE else agrees, you probably ought to rethink your idea." I would actually feel validation if I were to find a bunch of theologians throughout history who said the same thing, without me reading them or otherwise knowing they did. I don't read nearly as much theology as most people probably think, anyway (have yet to figure out if this is a good thing or not).
Besides, I'm keeping this blog fairly basic. I'll save my more far-out revelations for my wife's tired ears, or otherwise the privacy of my own head, where I delude myself into thinking they actually make sense. You don't need to hear what goes on in there-- it just might scare you off. ;)
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