@GreenAppleKing Said 
Then chose another target because all of the characters in your little puppet show come directly from those pages.
God questions the vapor of a man who dares to raise his fist to heaven. This from Job:
“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?"
Amazing poetry which speaks to our petulant hearts.
Hi, the words you quote point towards a Reality that is ineffable and ultimately beyond words. The trouble is, out of fear, we build a system, a thelogy of salvation, seeking to domesticate the ineffable.
Once again I quote Merton.......from his "Raids on the Unspeakable"
But the magicians keep turning the Cross to their own purpose. Yes, it is for them too a sign of contradiction: the awful blasphemy of the religious magician who makes the Cross contradict mercy. This of course is the ultimate temptation of Christianity. To say that Christ has locked all doors, has given one answer, settled everything and departed, leaving all life enclosed in the frightful consistency of a system outside of which there is seriousness and damnation, inside of which there is the intolerable flippancy of the saved - while nowhere is there any place left for the mystery of the freedom of divine mercy which alone is truly serious, and worthy of being taken seriously.
Dec 16, 2013 @ 16:33:02
