On the Questioning of God
My FB friend Bobby Grow and I are thinking along the same line tonight (see his post at http://growrag.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/schooled-in-the-faith-of-christ-thomas-torrance-responds-to-rachel-held-evans-questioning-approach/ ). Great minds think alike? :-) I want to come at what I take to be our similar concern from another direction. He takes on the matter of what constitutes proper questioning of God. I will look at another facet of the matter here. I have a growing concern that a certain recklessness in questioning God is becoming our default mode of relating to him. From the Garden of Eden on the central issue between God and humanity was/is the latter inability/unwillingness to trust God. Even for those who follow Jesus this remains our central struggle. God accommodates this weakness by allowing us to vent and rage at him, call him terrible names, and hurl all manner of vile accusation against him (see Job and Lamen...