Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Happy
I think it is an easy mistake to turn Jesus into an idol. Idolatry is an attempt to find salvation outside of yourself in some form. The church has focused primarily on the body of Jesus when his real message was that Christ is inside of all of us, as God is. Never seek for salvation outside of yourself. God is spirit and has nothing to do with the body, or idols. That's why it is so hard to communicate with God. We are constantly asking for ephemeral idols when God can only offer the eternal. Peace, MH
The whole point of the fallen world needing a savior is due to the separation caused by our own sin from a holy & perfect God. God is separate from His own creation. It's not part of him, and He doesn't depend on it. The idea that God is within all of us is something straight out of the New Age movement and Eastern mysticism. You're not speaking of the Christian God, you're making statements that apply to Brahma from Hinduism. Your statements eliminate the need for God in your logic, so if you seek salvation from within, you have no need for a God that is not yourself.

The reason why it's hard to communicate with God, is because we're dirty, rotten sinners and God is holy. Our thoughts are not his thoughts, so we have a difficult time relating to a perfect being.

The whole "God can only offer the eternal" statement puts a limit on God, saying effectively that even though God created the universe, He can't relate with what he's created, because it's beyond his capacity. That simply isn't true. It would be like someone creating a robot and then that robot telling its creator that, "You can't understand me, because you're not a robot." The creator has to have intimate knowledge of his creation in order to even create it. Taking your statement to its final implications, if God can only offer the eternal, then having a relationship with Him on earth is pointless. The fact is though that God does understand us more than even we understand ourselves and can relate with us, because He created the world and everything in it.
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