The Threshing Floor - July 8, 2012-Randy Maugans - "The GOD ofthe Bible"
Is "The Lord is a man of war." -Exodus 15:3 or "The God of Peace." -Romans 15:33 "God is not the author of confusion but of peace." - 1 Corinthians 14:33 Well...someone is certainly confused.
A return from the silence and a loosely spun narrative upon this monolithic construct called "The GOD of the Bible". The more I look at it, it seems the consciousness of humanity was split by the deity that weaves in and out of the Old Testament. Our own schizophrenic states are the result of an imbalance that none dare speak of...this YHWH god looks pretty nasty! If you want to see the spirit of this God just look at the internet Christianity crowds who DELIGHT in condemning and judging anyone who dares step out of their "orthodoxy", and away from a prescribed method of interpreting this object of desire called the "Holy Bible". Pieced together by half-illiterate delegates to the Council of Nicea, the "accepted" scriptures were wrung from the blood of apostates, gnostics, and those who dared to interpret spirituality outside the political structures of the Church. Nothing has changed. And it's time it did. Mankind continues to pillage, murder, and condemn in the names of the war-like Gods who populated the malevolent universe of religion. It seems that Jesus, the Christ, managed to return some sanity in His invocation of the Father...why do we keep dragging it all back to the God of War.
Music: "Small Rebellions" - Jars Of Clay, "Who Will Stop The Rain" - John Fogerty
