Apprehending God
Rich Wooten
Colossians 1:9-14
Apprehending God
Trip to Colorado - a good example of the human life! Something is broken, we try to mask it, but without actually fixing it (find an expert), we are doomed to falling short!
ap·pre·hend
1. arrest (someone) for a crime
2. understand or perceive.
Connecting with God - as followers of Christ, one of the things we take for granted is connecting with God, the Divine. How do we access God? How do we apprehend the eternal wHen we are located in time and space (and God is not). It causes us to ask some of those really big philosophical (and spiritual) questions.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
This is actually a foundational question of existence. This has been asked for centuries, millennia! To answer this requires us to take steps into faith - other religions provide answers to this, atheism provides answers (time and chance), Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, you name it, and Christianity provides answers (the Biblical God).
So, is God accessible to us? How do we experience this accessible God? We often appeal to thoughts of God being unchanging, immovable. This comes from Aristotle (unmoved mover, outside the spheres).
PIC OF ARISTOTLE
We get this idea from a guy that was a polytheist, one who used reasoning and the sciences of the time to develop an idea. This idea was that there is some 'unmoved mover' or 'prime mover' outside of all known things making things move or happen.
PIC of UNIVERSE
This unmoved mover was found by the church in the 300's to be a great place to stick God. And that view stuck fast by the 1300's deeply impacting the church of that time, and some effects even to this day. Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury used Aristotle extensively, denying that God had any 'feelings' as such, even unmoved by us and his creation.
But if something is incapable of moving, of changing, then we as humans are going to be pretty miserable with this ...
Rich Wooten
Colossians 1:9-14
Apprehending God
Trip to Colorado - a good example of the human life! Something is broken, we try to mask it, but without actually fixing it (find an expert), we are doomed to falling short!
ap·pre·hend
1. arrest (someone) for a crime
2. understand or perceive.
Connecting with God - as followers of Christ, one of the things we take for granted is connecting with God, the Divine. How do we access God? How do we apprehend the eternal wHen we are located in time and space (and God is not). It causes us to ask some of those really big philosophical (and spiritual) questions.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
This is actually a foundational question of existence. This has been asked for centuries, millennia! To answer this requires us to take steps into faith - other religions provide answers to this, atheism provides answers (time and chance), Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, you name it, and Christianity provides answers (the Biblical God).
So, is God accessible to us? How do we experience this accessible God? We often appeal to thoughts of God being unchanging, immovable. This comes from Aristotle (unmoved mover, outside the spheres).
PIC OF ARISTOTLE
We get this idea from a guy that was a polytheist, one who used reasoning and the sciences of the time to develop an idea. This idea was that there is some 'unmoved mover' or 'prime mover' outside of all known things making things move or happen.
PIC of UNIVERSE
This unmoved mover was found by the church in the 300's to be a great place to stick God. And that view stuck fast by the 1300's deeply impacting the church of that time, and some effects even to this day. Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury used Aristotle extensively, denying that God had any 'feelings' as such, even unmoved by us and his creation.
But if something is incapable of moving, of changing, then we as humans are going to be pretty miserable with this ...
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