Marc Hartzman, author of God Made Me Do It: True stories of the worst advice the Lord has ever given his followers, has started a website that allows God to speak through people who speak through twitter. The site is called almightytwitter and has a bouncy design that seems to invite a lot of jokes. But the underlying premise of the site raises a practical question. How do we know what God wants? Or who He is? How do we know when God is speaking through someone? Or through us?
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May 26, 2010
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Lach MacDonald says:
Jun 2, 2010
About my “only” son: that emphasis was suitable for those early days when I had nameless daughters, as they still are in most of the known world, and a son was a big deal. And astronomy being what it was, there was hardly a need to explain billions of worlds with other life forms where I have no limits on expressing myself. Nowadays I would probably say “my only human son of this generation on this little planet” though it may not be as catchy. Only is a term that gets greater shelf space and marketing clout. The whole son thing worked for the Greeks much better, though there is always the question: is the son also a God, like a separate entity? Go figure.
Lach MacDonald says:
Jun 2, 2010
Also, Abram may have accepted the notion of a God who wants a human sacrifice, moreover, one’s own son, but the idea that I gave Jesus as a sacrifice to atone for humanity’s sins makes me out to be a manipulator and hardly all powerful or omnipotent. God makes mistakes? God apologizes? God reconsiders? God changes his mind?
Hey, that anthropomophorizes me beyond satire! Existence is not an experiment, like democracy, or capitalism, or slavery (oops!). Life is reality, not reality show. I am evolving also, didn’t you notice?