Celestial Santa Clause

[sentipente]

I am placing this sermon here because of the serious questions it raises. Click on the sermon for Feb. 9. The sermon starts about 42 minutes into the podcast. This is not for the faint of heart but it is powerful.

http://tsdachurch.org/sermons.htm

 

[JonMiller]

It seems a bit empty?

JM

 

[sentipente]

What seems empty?

 

[JonMiller]

The church, sorry. I will get to the sermon in a bit. Maybe I will skip a bit.

JM

 

[sentipente]

I did not post it for the size of the audience.

 

[JonMiller]

you want to start at 42m or so, I think.

JM

 

[sentipente]

Thanks, Jon. I'll edit the OP.

 

[JonMiller]

I don't find anything surprising in the sermon. I disagree with some of the conclusions, but I have considered them before. I think it is a good sermon (although I like the sermons at my church better, although I agree with that pastor more then my own, I Think).

One area of disagreement, I think that God allows Himself to be constrained by our free will, and is not constrained by Nature.

JM

 

[JonMiller]

By the way, just to be clear, I appreciated it and am glad that Senti shared it (but when do we get to see one of Senti's sermons?)

JM

 

[moicherie]

Interesting sermon, I think we know this in our heads until something bad happens to us or those around us then we resort to the Santa image of God, we spout the story of Job but we act as if his experience is the exception to the rule when it is not. Good and bad things happen to good and bad people- that's life.

 

[sentipente]

The only conclusion I disagree with was expressed in his prayer where he portrayed God as being preoccupied in some remote part of the universe. I think that our aversion to pantheism has caused us to adopt a view of God that is not true. God is not some overseer. From His perspective there is no remote part of the universe because all of the universe is inside of Him. That is the only conclusion given a God who occupies all time and space.

 

[JonMiller]

That was another one I disagree with.

JM