Richard C. August wrote:
> God is NOT, NEVER WAS, and NEVER SHALL be, a SHOE. God is NOT, and NEVER
> WAS, and NEVER SHALL BE, a personal posession, or a prize package, or an
> item you can touch. God is CREATOR, SPIRIT, IN-DWELLING PRESENCE, DIVINE
> ACTIVE FORCE, and OWNER OF THE UNIVERSE. We are GOD's CREATION. God is not
> and never shall be our personal posession.
And in so saying that you remove him from any realm of contact that he could possibly touch one in.
Worship should be a personal thing.
>> I feel sorry for you, for you in your spiritual blindness have a
> misconceived notion that the Almighty God can merely be at best one of your
> pagan idols.
*L* No, I don't. He's the Christion Idol.
> Jesus Christ has said that God is Spirit, and those who
> worship Him must worship Him is SPIRIT and in TRUTH. John 4:24. God is not
> something you can hold in your hand or with whom you can commit sexual
> intercourse for procreation, nor is He something you can put on a corner
> shelf as you would an idol.
>> Despite that many Christians have representations or icons of Christ on
> their walls or shelves, most importantly, is Christ's presence in your
> heart, as it is in the hearts of millions of believers worldwide, many of
> whom died in their faith?
>
And most important to me is the presence of the Gods in the world around me, including in my heart.
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Brightest of Blessings,
Joseph A Nagy Jr
