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-Susan Berner
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Faces of God
In class we discussed how the Pastor's view of Jesus' face changed throughout his life. At first he saw Jesus as a powerful savior who rules over the Earth, to a man beaten and bruised with a face filled with suffering. This caused the pastor to see Jesus at one point as more like a man than the all powerful savior of the world. We do this in society today all the time. We pick and choose which attributes of God we want to focus on at different times and for different reasons. We may focus on the Jesus who is merciful and kind, or the one who is loving towards the poor and needy, the Jesus who is jealous of us, or the one that is full of wrath, and so on and so on. I believe it is wrong to only focus on one part of God. It is important that we know and understand all of him to truly understand how awesome and powerful He is. The pastor began to lose faith because he only focused on the suffering God at one time. He forgot that the reason Jesus suffered was to save all sinners in the world and to come. We Christians must strive to know all of God, in order to completely appreciate Him and know Him.
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I agree with you Susan we do focus on certain aspects and forget about others. People love to focus on the attributes that make people happy. God is merciful, God is love and others like are put on display. The God of wrath is put in the back and not brought up. That's the God of the old testament is one of my favorite excuses not to focus on some attributes of God. If we look at God we have to embrace all aspects.
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