For These Times
  • Home Page
  • Writings Past and Present
  • The Cohanan (dad)
  • Relating Upwards
  • Picture Archive
  • Video Links
  • About This Site
  • Materials
  • Contact

Back to the Start

7/13/2019

0 Comments

 
712.

Theology


Back to the start
(This writing is fully complete if one has a belief in God, that is a personified entity.  However, if one's belief is more ethereal, such as in a source, the writing still applies.) 

In reading the Five Books of Moses and the onto Joshua I was struck by the strictness of right and wrong and the consequences thereof.   This comes after God flooded the world for its iniquities and then stated he will no longer wipe out man for his wrongdoings. In other words he'll ease up and  not expect too much.  Adam spoke directly to God and when briefly deceived lost his purity and immortality and had to earn his living.  That is the most direct punishment for disobedience there is.  I suppose the closer you are to a power source, oneness, unity, whatever you want to call it, the slightest of deviations has drastic effects.  The farther you are from this source, God, the less severe the consequences of each action.  The divisions have mutated and multiplied until unity is barely possible.

Along with this severity of consequence came closeness to God.  Moses did speak to God, and yet because of one disobedience was not allowed to enter the new land.  An entire group of Levites were destroyed because of their arrogance.  The land opened up right beneath them.  Still, they were closer to God then we are today.  Our actions are so diluted and unresolved and confused punishments such as these would make no sense.  So we are given tolerance and shown patience.  The price is that we are not as close to God.  We have a private 'still small voice' which can help us ease through time and space, but it is not a clear, loud, coherent voice.  Indeed, it is probably for our own protection.  If we were given a directive loud and clear and booming, and we didn't keep it, or broke our word, that wouldn't work too well either.  If you said I'll keep my word or let me die you and lot of others would be no more. So everything has become mushier, our 'wrongdoings' and our relating to God.

I think we will get to the point where we will be so far from our source that what we hear will be barely audible and actions taken by God will be so inconsequential because of this distance that we will yearn for a new closeness.  We will search and still be wanting for answers and some relief and it won't be found easily.  Hence, the road will lead back to a direct communication back to God.  I believe it's what happened to Abraham and will happen again for those of us who seek and yearn again for a more direct connection.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Steven B. Nussdorf records his lifelong search to find meaning outside of the normal channels.  He  uses writing, poetry, and drawing to document this effort.

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013


    All
    Age Aging
    Aging
    Appeals
    Approach To Writing
    Art
    Belief
    Belief And Doubt
    Change
    Community
    Contradiction
    Culmination
    Dad
    Dad's Passing
    Death
    Dreams
    Economics
    Entropy
    Environment
    Family
    Florida
    Friends And Acquaintances
    God
    Golden Mean
    Health
    Help
    Intro
    Lamentations
    Law Of Reconciliation
    Leading
    Learning
    Life
    Living
    Man/woman
    Meditation
    Memory
    Metaphysics
    Mom
    Nature
    New York
    Observations
    Parents
    Patterns
    Personal
    Philosophy
    Play
    Prayer
    Premise
    Principles
    Prophecy
    Prupose
    Psychology
    Purity
    Reaching Out
    Realms
    Reason
    Reconciliation Law
    Relating
    Religion
    Right And Wrong
    Ritual
    Spirit
    Spiritual Living
    Stands
    Statement
    Systems
    Takes
    Talmud
    The
    Theology
    Theory Of Compensation
    Thinking
    Truth
    Understanding
    Universe
    Vectors And Forces
    Vignettes
    Voids
    Who For
    Wisdom
    Word
    Work

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.