And in heaven the redeemed will all be entirely alike in capacity and gift? The heavenly chorus, or the human branch of it, is monophonic, not polyphonic?
Here we have a God who is so unlike anything else that He's not even ONE the way other things are One! I don't think that He is of such a kind that every perfect image of Him would be identical to every other perfect image. I think that thought lessens the concept of Him.
You help me put my finger on the thing that's been niggling at me about this in the foggy resources of my deeper mind somewhere.
It seems to me . . .
That the idea of an amorphous, unitary, homoginized, 1,000% transparent, 1,000% totally merged EXISTENCE in eternity is a satanic EASTERN RELIGION; EASTERN MYSTICISM NOTION from the pit of hell.
It is an EASTERN RELIGION NOTION THAT:
1. ALL IS ONE.
2. THERE ARE NO DISTINCTIONS.
3. THERE ARE NOT EVEN DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
4. DISTINCTIONS ARE ILLUSION.
5. ALL IS ILLUSION.
6. OOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE GOD OF THE BIBLE AND HIS CREATION AND CREATURES ARE ENTIRELY ANTETHETICAL TO; OPPOSITE TO THAT.
Thanks, much Dawg. I knew there was something significant niggling at me in that direction.
It's the result of being focused on us, self-love, arrogance and pride. Otherwise we woulod consider everyone else as we would ocnsider ourselves; empathy and love for them. As it is we are incapable of loving each other as we love ourselves. And for the same reas we cannot love God with all ourheart and mind and soul.