Getting God Right

At a conference this week I heard a powerful statement that made me think, if you have an incorrect fundamental view of God "you would be better off an Athiest." Why? Because any other view of God but the deep lover of your soul that was so moved by you upon creation that he wrote himself into the story of life to have an intimate relationship with us, would not draw us to him but leave us crippled by him.

Imagine if you believed God to be a game master who on his finger spun the world in motion and stepped back to watch it play out amused by our life and choices both good and bad.  A sarcastic view of God lends to a life of resentment. Or what if there was many God's each responsible for different aspects of life each for us to pay homage to? Such a view would produce a life compartmentalized as well as our soul.

If these or any other view of God is your view than I would think you better off to not believe at all.   And then you are left to the view of Darwin "eat or be eaten." Me, I think I will stick to the radical love of Jesus that started a revolution of care and meaning who I can experience each and every day in a deep relationship of significance. After all, that's the God of the Bible.