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When I get my hands on something that I really want, something I think I'm really going to enjoy, I do this throaty laugh thing as I anticipate the pleasure of experiencing whatever it is I've got.
Yesterday I got a package from Amazon. It had the Season Five soundtrack to Doctor Who, the latest Newsboys CD (Born Again), and A.W. Tozer's Knowledge of the Holy. You bet I laughed that laugh.
I'm really looking forward to Knowledge of the Holy. My pastor keeps quoting it in sermons, and every time I he does, I go, "YES!" I just read the first chapter, and I already like where it's going.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demostrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
And,
Always this [idea of] God will conform to the image to the one who created it and will base or pure, cruel or kind, according to the moral state of the mind from which it emerges.
Unless we earnestly work to base our concept of spirituality, divinity, holiness, goodness, and righteousness on something objective, something which exists independent of our own experience (though not divorced from it), we will always, always, always make gods in our own likeness. What else would we do?
Yesterday I got a package from Amazon. It had the Season Five soundtrack to Doctor Who, the latest Newsboys CD (Born Again), and A.W. Tozer's Knowledge of the Holy. You bet I laughed that laugh.
I'm really looking forward to Knowledge of the Holy. My pastor keeps quoting it in sermons, and every time I he does, I go, "YES!" I just read the first chapter, and I already like where it's going.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demostrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
And,
Always this [idea of] God will conform to the image to the one who created it and will base or pure, cruel or kind, according to the moral state of the mind from which it emerges.
Unless we earnestly work to base our concept of spirituality, divinity, holiness, goodness, and righteousness on something objective, something which exists independent of our own experience (though not divorced from it), we will always, always, always make gods in our own likeness. What else would we do?