| | Paradox| 1. | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| 2. | a self-contradictory and false proposition. |
| 3. | any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature. |
| 4. | an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion. |
We love and we hate.
We're happy and sad.
We have science and religion.
Creation and evolution.
God and Satan.
Good and Evil.
Light and Dark.
Faith and Doubt.
Life and Death.
We are creatures of paradox. There must be room for paradox in our theology and religion. Without it, we are stagnant, ignorant, unmoving, and uneffective.
I have come to a place where all of the "Yeah, but..?" statements have disappeared into the beautiful fog of God.
No long does there have to be an absolute, a measure that we grab on to so that we can succor our need to buy our salvation.
There is only God -- what we call God; he, she, it, they; god, goddess; incarnations of god; jesus, buddha, mohammed; you and me; father and mother; the great spirit, and all the other names we attribute to the Great Other that we hardly understand.
This Other seems to have revealed basic truths in all the world religions that we can agree upon. These seem to be things that this Other wants us to work on and grasp for right now.
But, oh the possibilities. Oh, the things that must still be out there that this Other is waiting for us to discover.
Will you be brave enough to search for them?
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| | Posted 5/8/2008 7:08 PM - 4 comments
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