Moltmann #4 (misc.)
- “Unless you confess, God cannot bless” is wrong. Is God by nature a non-contingent being? Yes. Is God waiting on us to act? No. We cannot make conditions on God. That is to make God an object/an idol. God will bless who God will bless. We respond. In fact it is heathen to think so.
- Jesus talks about prayer as being persistent. But God knows already before I pray it.
- Death is not annihilation.
- Before God created he chose to become the creator. And he had to contract himself to make space for God. God has chosen to bind himself to time – or else he could not be called a “living” God. Is that too Hegelian? No, Hegel did not develop an understanding of the trinity.
- Pan-en-theism: means everything is in God. But that’s only part of it, the more important part is that God is IN everything. Calvin himself says that god is in everything only that we don’t have the eyes to see it. If you see it in Trinitarian terms than we can understand it – If you see it in theistic terms it becomes problematic.
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I like that term Pan-en-theism.
It gives a word to something that has been a core part of my theology since maybe high school. God is in everything and everyone if we can open our eyes and see it. Or maybe it’s about acting as if we see it, and only then may we be able to see it. I’d like to hear more about the Trinitarian terms you mention as being very important to this dialogue.