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[M30USA]

I have to say this is quite refreshing, and I feel like a weight has been lifted. These are the questions we have in our hearts, but may not know how to express them.

 

Look at the unusual things God told various Prophets to do. To the natural mind it could seem a bit crazy, but it was perfectly reasonable to God. I've done what could be considered "strange" in the name of God, or being obedient to His command/prompting. I didn't or don't care because there is a knowledge that it is God and so I do it.

 

God is not palatable to some. Jesus in some ways fit's more of what people think God should be. I like the weirdness of God personally...no, some things don't make sense, but a majority does once one understands (to the ability of "our" understanding) God's reasoning.

 

M30, I want to really, really thank you for these two posts. There was a very dark place in which my thinking was headed due to a series of non related issues, but on the same subject, they were consecutive. After reading your first post on this particular subject (the weirdness of God), it began to break and was completely broken off with this current one. There has never been more fear concerning a line of my own thinking.

 

Oh, and am very much into God's meaning of numbers/numerology, in fact love it!

 

Again, thank you...

 

LOL, yea.

 

The best example of God's eccentricity is the fact that he could have just destroyed the wall of Jericho (via the angel), but no, he made the Israelites engage in a bizarre, symbolic act of circling the walls 7 times before he did it. Anyone reasonable would ask, "Why would God do this unless he is illustrating some kind of symbolic message?" Most of the time we aren't aware of the reasons for strange things like this. It's kind of like if a dog looked at human who was wearing a pair of blue shoes and asked, "What is up with these humans? Why do they always have to wear shoes that are the same color?" The dog isn't aware of concepts like symmetry and aesthetics, so to him it just seems random and meaningless--like circling the walls of Jericho 7 times seems to us. But the meaning is only probably known by God and his angels. They are the audience to the stage of earth. We aren't meant to know the reasons for things.

 

"The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon-- to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task." (Isaiah 28:21)

Edited July 12, 2013 by M30USA

[pureinheart]

LOL, yea.

 

The best example of God's eccentricity is the fact that he could have just destroyed the wall of Jericho (via the angel), but no, he made the Israelites engage in a bizarre, symbolic act of circling the walls 7 times before he did it. Anyone reasonable would ask, "Why would God do this unless he is illustrating some kind of symbolic message?" Most of the time we aren't aware of the reasons for strange things like this. It's kind of like if a dog looked at human who was wearing a pair of blue shoes and asked, "What is up with these humans? Why do they always have to wear shoes that are the same color?" The dog isn't aware of concepts like symmetry and aesthetics, so to him it just seems random and meaningless--like circling the walls of Jericho 7 times seems to us. But the meaning is only probably known by God and his angels. They are the audience to the stage of earth. We aren't meant to know the reasons for things.

 

"The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon-- to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task." (Isaiah 28:21)

 

Great analogy with the dog! The best guess for circling the walls of Jericho and doing it 7 times would be obedience, the number 7 meaning spiritual perfection, the "circling" possibly creating a "stirring" in the spiritual realm creating confusion in both the spiritual and the natural.

 

Look at Hosea, God told him to marry a harlot. God is all about symbolism. Marrying a harlot goes against what He teaches, but He was showing His people how they have essentially "cheated" on Him, they had basically turned their backs on Him if I remember correctly.

 

Ezekiel did some REALLY weird stuff...now this is from memory...didn't God tell him to tie himself to a pole (or something of that nature) for about 8 plus months. Isaiah was another one, but forget what he did.

 

We can't put God in a box to conform to our ways of thinking. His ways are alien ...if they're alien to us in certain ways, they must be really alien to the person who doesn't walk in the Spirit of Understanding. This can be the saved and unsaved...this is so freeing, you have no idea...