Thursday, May 4, 2023

God, ☮

I read this (in the Good News For Modern Man Version of the New Testament) to Joe the other night:

"God is not a God of disorder but of peace." (1 Corinthians 14:33). 

And that was hard for me to grasp. For one thing, because I'd just finished reading the Old Testament to Jacqueline last week, and there was scant evidence there to support such a notion...and abundant evidence to support the contrary assertion. For another thing, the world in which we are embedded--like flies in Amber--seems to be full up of disorder and significantly deficit in Peace.

On the other hand...it made me wonder how White Christian "nationalists" would deal with this kind of thing. Presumably, the Bible is their Guide to Life. And this verse is not open to interpretation at all: If you're for God, then you're for Peace. That excludes acts such as storming the Capitol, beating policeman, shooting Black men, and browbeating LGBTQ folks. 

So what do they do with that?

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