Summary of text [comment] pages 50 and 51

[Since the Biblical God expresses the feelings of a person and since we are considering the question of whether sin affects God, perhaps this is a good time to consider the categorical structure of God.

We have already seen that the One True God cannot be described as merely transcendent and immanent.

The One True God is transcendent, immanent and mysterious.

In the next few blogs, I will explore “the categorical nature of ‘God Recognizing Himself'”.

Quotes will be used to group words together. ]

[IF “the alpha” is “the way of life before the first singularity, expressed in the innocence and gullibility of Adam and Eve”,

THEN “the omega” could be “think^divine as a way of truth and wisdom after the first singularity”.

Christ is the path from the gullibility of Adam to the confidence of think^divine.]

[Some formulate think^divine as dogma.

Some are convinced that dogma must be, like our transcendent God, essential and unvarying. Dogma seems remote, without feelings or emotions.

Does God judge our situation from a distance according to a long list of criteria?

Think^divine cannot be reduced to dogmatic formula.

Dogma is a guide.

Think^divine is a way.]

Summary of text [comment] pages 50 and 51

[Think^divine is a receptacle of God’s relational power. It is one location where God’s immanence is manifest.

“God Recognizing Himself” is transcendent, immanent, and mysterious.

Sin, in its deepest nature, is a “no” to “God Recognizing Himself”.

The historic witness of God’s jealousy and anger encourages us to think^divine.

Feelings (realm of possibility) and emotions (realm of actuality) are natural to us. They both cloud and clarify judgment (realm of normal context).]

Summary of text [comment] pages 50 and 51

[The mathematical notation of exponentials or powers, where the base – think – is raised to the power of divine, provides a metaphor.

God’s transcendence is essential and unvarying.

However, our expressions of think^divine cannot be as essential and unvarying, because they exist to make sense of our actions and thoughts. We try to put the situation into context by cobbling perspectives together.]

Summary of text [comment] pages 50 and 51

God is not one cause among others.

God’s activity coincides with the transcendent and the immanent causalities of creating.

In His salvic activity, individual persons are called into dialogue.

Sin, in its deepest nature, is a “no” to this dialogue. Here, sin affects God in his relations to humans. Sin effects the relation from Person to person.

Holy Scripture describes God’s jealousy, anger, and sorrow. These are necessary for our understanding of God’s supernatural activity in his covenant.

Summary of text [comment] pages 49 and 50

[Another beauty to the notation think^divine and think^group is the base of the exponent: think.

Think.

What a beautiful word.

You cannot see or hear it.

You cannot touch it.

You cannot smell or taste it.

What is an object of thought?

The answer must be “an object that brings us into relation or organization”.

An object of thought attracts us.

Althusser called the attraction: “interpellation”.]

[Think^divine includes the capacity to say “I will not be one with the mob”.

Jung called it “individuation”.

Here, “the presence underlying the word ‘religion'” comes into play. Religion relates to sovereign power as infra (similar to think^group) and supra (similar to think^divine).

The transcendence and immanence of God comes to mind. God is transcendent above sovereign and disciplinary powers. God is immanent below sovereign and disciplinary powers.

God is “the object that brings us all into relation”.

God inspires the righteousness that underlies “the objects that bring us into organization”.]

[The power of think^group comes from the mob.

One key word of the mob is “forward”. Forward is the only way of the mob. Go “forward” into illusions of grandeur, immorality, stupidity, and gullibility.]

Summary of text [comment] pages 49 and 50

[Let me recall the mystery. God’s immanence suffers. God’s transcendence does not.

Think^group often leads to prosperity. It often leads to sorrow. The ocean of regrets and the fantasyland of pro-objects came from think^groups.

Think^divine contains a registry of that suffering, yet it remains unmoved on the rock of truth.

Hmmm.]