How Big is Your God?

Posted on June 11, 2017 by mitchteemley

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“Traveling through space and not finding God does not mean that space is empty any more than traveling through my body and not finding me means that I am not here.”

~Dallas Willard

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15 Responses to How Big is Your God?

  1. Margaret from soulfood101blog says:
    June 11, 2017 at 3:22 pm

    Amen! The title got me excited. He is bigger than everything we can think of and things we can’t even grasp.

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  3. breakthroughfutures says:
    June 11, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    Amen.

    We always need to remind ourselves of the true power of our Creator, because that is the power by which we can live.

    Thank you for sharing this.

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  4. Vernon Miles Kerr says:
    June 11, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    The quote from Isaiah should include books compiled, edited and “canonized” by puny humans. God cannot be contained in any “structure” made by man, including any book. The “holy” books of the world are indeed wonderful sources for understanding the origins of human culture and philosophy, but should not be taken as the pure, unadulterated, inviolable word of a supreme being. We do this at the expense of creating a world of conflicting “religious” cultures. Too often such conflict is physical and violent. One only needs to follow the news to see all the repugnant current examples.

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    • mitchteemley says:
      June 11, 2017 at 6:32 pm

      I’m not a syncretist or a universalist, Vernon, but I certainly share your loathing for violence committed in the name of God, or any ideology, for that matter.

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    • breakthroughfutures says:
      June 14, 2017 at 11:49 am

      The war begins due to human interpretations of texts, and humans believing that they have a power to rule rather than the power to love.

      I believe the bible as the word of God, but even if I take it out of that context and follow its instructions on how I should live and treat people, it will not lead me to violence.

      If I use it to fulfil my own self righteousness that is not a fault of the bible but a fault of my own.

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  5. Ann Coleman says:
    June 12, 2017 at 1:39 am

    Thanks for the reminder!

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  6. notdonner says:
    June 12, 2017 at 3:27 am

    I so appreciate this reminder and the Willard quote. There are many people who frustrate me with their ‘stiff-necked’ response to God; but like the difficulty of the man being sought from within himself, I remember why Jesus spoke in parables (Luke 8:10).

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  7. oneta hayes says:
    June 12, 2017 at 4:29 am

    What a quote! New to me. Thanks.

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  8. crazyloveparent says:
    June 13, 2017 at 4:00 am

    I haven’t heard this one before- this is great! Thanks for sharing!!!!

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  11. #hood says:
    November 18, 2024 at 4:14 am

    isaiah 91:01-02 the lord is my fortress & gave his angels & lions & a long life

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