I am still confronted with questions of whether I am big or small in this God thing. Here are some of the implications, as I see it:
If I am Big then...
My prayers/devotion/actions or lack thereof can alter God's actions
God thinks about me all the time and finds me irresistable
If I am Small then...
God will do with me and through me as He wants, and even my conformity to this is His act
God thinks about me all the time because He is good, big, and even pays attention to tiny things
For those of you more in the Big camp, I have a question. How do you deal with the unbelievable pressure of controlling what God does? Doesn't that make you bigger than him?
For those in the Small camp, How do you avoid passivity? If God is just going to do what he's going to do, why should I pursue him? Why pray?
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What if you are both?
You always have such interesting theological posts. I'm a pastor's child who grew up being taught theology and around my house it is debated all the time. What you are talking about is free will vs. predestination (being puppets). I think both are somehow true since they both are in the Bible. I think there are many paradoxes like this that I won't understand until I get to heaven because I don't have the mind of God. I can accept that. But that's my personality. I know many, many people (my husband and sister included) that wrestle with having to understand. My husband tend more towards the "small" and he's not passive just because his desire is to seek to obey God and be a servant to Him.
Mike, How is that true?
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