The problem with Jung's statement, and with all arguments from the triangle [of good God, all-powerful God, people suffer] that give up on divine goodness or justice, is that in doing so we pay ourselves the compliment of possessing within ourselves the high-water mark of moral consciousness. That is a claim on behalf of the finest moral consciousnesses among us, which I for one find immodest. The implication is that in this respect we are superior to God and in a position to instruct God on issues of right and wrong. But then, who among us is to be the teacher? Especially now, in our so-called postmodern world, there will be many applicants for the position, and not only their credentials but their pedagogical programs will differ from one another. And if our claim to possess a moral consciousness superior to God's in fact amounts to self-deification (as in Gen 3:5, “you will be like God (or gods), knowing good and evil”), the result will be a cacophonous polytheism.—At the Scent of Water, p. 62
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Wow! Talk about hubris! We know more than God. We rarely put it that baldly, but that is exactly what we do—all the time. Whenever we whine or complain, we are basically telling God that he isn't doing it the right way, id est, my way.
Lord, forgive us and have us see things through your eyes, not ours!
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Hi, I am from Australia.
But what if your entire religion has nothing whatsoever to do with Real God--The Indivisible Divine Conscious Light
And indeed is a collective device for attempting to control The Divine, reduce The Divine to the mortal meat-body human scale ONLY, and thus make The Divine the slave of the collective tribal ego. And has thus Inevitably effectively eliminated both The Divine Radiance, and the very possibility of a truly Divine Life from the world altogether.
www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-religion.aspx
www.dabase.org/noface.htm
www.dabase.org/Divhscrt.htm
www.dabase.org/dht7.htm
How did this "death of god" occur.
These references by the same author describe how.
www.dabase.org/proofch6.htm
www.beezone.com/AdiDa/jesusandme.html
www.dabase.org/rgcbpobk.htm
What you are suggesting is simply gnosticism warmed over. It was quite successfully debunked by the early Christian writers.
James
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