Comments on: Question for God http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/ Meanderings of a theistic agnostic. Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:20:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Casey http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/#comment-83 Casey Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:03:11 +0000 http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/#comment-83 The ancient man approached God ... as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defence for being the god who permits war, poverty and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that man is on the Bench and God in the Dock. ("God in the Dock," in Lesley Walmsley, ed., C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces [London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000], p. 36) The ancient man approached God … as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defence for being the god who permits war, poverty and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God’s acquittal. But the important thing is that man is on the Bench and God in the Dock. (“God in the Dock,” in Lesley Walmsley, ed., C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces [London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000], p. 36)

]]> By: Ed Lynam http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/#comment-37 Ed Lynam Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:19:02 +0000 http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/#comment-37 As a father of seven, I get plenty of "fickle" love from my kids, but when they express genuine love it is absolutely wonderful. One of my kids went through a phase when he was very angry toward me, and threatened to cut contact. I apologized for my part in the disagreement, and showed him in actions not just words that he meant so much to me. We had a great reconciliation, and the past is forgiven on both our parts. I suppose that if some of my kids rejected me and claimed I wasn't their dad, I'd feel sad, but probably worry about them. After all, they'd still be my kids regardless of their angry rejection. As a father of seven, I get plenty of “fickle” love from my kids, but when they express genuine love it is absolutely wonderful. One of my kids went through a phase when he was very angry toward me, and threatened to cut contact. I apologized for my part in the disagreement, and showed him in actions not just words that he meant so much to me. We had a great reconciliation, and the past is forgiven on both our parts.

I suppose that if some of my kids rejected me and claimed I wasn’t their dad, I’d feel sad, but probably worry about them. After all, they’d still be my kids regardless of their angry rejection.

]]> By: exapologist http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/#comment-32 exapologist Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:41:29 +0000 http://agnosis.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/question-for-god/#comment-32 A pointed and difficult question -- at least for a mere mortal like me! A pointed and difficult question — at least for a mere mortal like me!

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