Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse was awesome. He had a cool hideout, a flying car (which for some reason was school bus yellow and still cool.) and a side kick whom he almost always had to rescue. His living room was a fully functional babe lair. A cicular sunken couch and a large HD TV that Cornel'K popped up on occasionally to issue him a new job.Hurray for Danger Mouse being on DVD now.
Count Duckula was cool too.
The Imperfect Nature of God
This is the first in a series on the Nature of God.Ever wonder why we are so imperfect? Every try to figure out why humanity is the disjoined, self destructive and sinful species it is? The answer is quite simple. We are imperfect creations created by an imperfect god.
What? Hold the phone. I though god was perfect.
While god may be a being of higher perfection than humanity, (for example never aging), god is imperfect. Let's look at sin.
God created the universe. God ultimately controls everything in the universe. So, either sin pre-existed with god or it was created in tandem with the rest of the universe. Now how could sin pre-exist with a perfect god? If god can not be sinful, then the pre-existence of sin can only be concluded with that god himself was imperfect prior to the creation and in the creation of all that we know, dumped his sinful nature onto the universe, thus ridding himself of sin to be the sinless god head we recognized today.
But his imperfection continued. This imperfection found its way into more and more of his creation. The angels were created in order to serve god closely. Would not god want perfect servants in his courts? Apparently god was unable to overcome his own imperfection in creating and so a war raged in the heavens long before man ate of the forbidden fruit. Sin prompted Lucifer, or the morning star, to rise up against his imperfect god, and boasted to be as powerful as god himself. God, instead of containing this imperfection, was unable to stop its influence. Lucifer and the dissenting angels were banished from the heavens, but their ideas and sinful imperfections soon found there way into the lives of men, whom were seen by them as little more than god pets.
So now we have god's initial imperfection rippling through the cosmos, and landing now at the front door of man kind where Lucifer himself in the form of a snake gets Eve to break the laws of god. Is Eve's imperfection and defiance of god's commandment her own fault or are we then able to justly blame god for this in-built imperfection that was rooted in him from the beginning?
Through out the course of Genesis we see the consequences of what clearly is god's imperfection tearing into his creation. Evilness in men, cruelty and sin. All of which would not exist unless they were pre-existent with god or created by god himself.
God, wrought with anger over the spreading of his imperfection throughout his beloved creation chooses to flood it and save a handful of those whose level of imperfection was smaller than those he was planning to destroy. God could never completely remove his imperfection from us as the imperfection was derived direction from the creator himself.
Now, fast forward a few millennia and the trouble with sin is about to come to a head. God has decided that since his separation from sin that he can not be in the presence of sin and this means man is now immediately disqualified and ineligible to enter the courts of god. God would like for this pet creation come to him in the end, but how do you get around the sin decree?
God schemes up a plan to get sins forgiven by "paying" for them himself. In the form of his own imperfect creation, he will suffer in this imperfect form and die in the imperfect form in order to make right the imperfectness which he himself in the beginning was the root of. This act of suffering and dying in and of itself is an example of god's imperfection. How can a perfect god suffer and then die? Or did god leave Jesus completely while he was suffering and dying? This negates the concept of Jesus being god incarnate because is god leaves him, he can no longer be god, (which is a wholly different can of worms for another chapter.) He then rises his dead self three days later, (of course god can raise the dead), and through this resurrection a new order is established.
I believe this new order is the first and only time in history that a sin/imperfection filtration system was implemented. Think of it like a Britta water filter for your soul. You believe in Jesus, when you die, you get to enter the kingdom of heaven via the Jesus filter, which makes you presentable before god.
Well, in the end god has cleaned house and sin is filtered out, but where does it go? Sin and imperfection are regaled to hell, separated from god for the rest of eternity. So what happens next? Does god try again with his filtered man pets as spectators, privileged to view the start of a new creation? Will this new creation's boundaries be impervious to the hell still floating out there, somewhere with all of this imperfection churning inside?
Next time, the Nature of the Glory of God.