I can’t remember who pointed me toward Heresies and How to Avoid Them, but whatever the case, I’m reading it now. Right belief is important – why is it important? Because the truth about God is bigger than any fiction.
Take the ancient heresy of Theopascitism, which has been reinvigorated in various forms over the last century. This heresy states that the divine nature of Jesus suffers on the cross. While it is certain that Jesus the person suffers because of his full humanity, to suggest that the divine nature in him suffers makes him changeable, and God is immutable, unchanging. It’s a subtle Christological point, with important ramifications on the divine nature.
God’s changelessness needs to be understood not as a monotonous or loveless fixity, but as a burning, inexhaustible, unwavering, loving determination. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, God is said to possess “apatheia”, which does not mean apathy or insensitivity or indifference. Rather, it means that God has the freedom to act in a truly “dispassionate” way, seeing clearly and acting voluntarily, unclouded by storms of passion, because nothing can divert his loving nature from being itself. Perhaps it would help to say that God is dispassionate, but not unpassionate. His love is an action, not a reaction, and of course it includes what we would call passion (that is, “strong feeling, emotion”), but it is not determined by emotion; it is determined by his entire, steadfast, loving nature, of which “emotion” is a part.
That’s good to remember when I am apt to visualize God being as vindictive as I am.
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I have been spending some therapeutic time in the Tao Te Ching lately, at least until this latest venture into WTF? about Jesus all over again.
The Tao is often referred to as dispassionate. Not that Lao Tzu or Wayne Dyer or anyone else says so, but really, the Tao is god, except that the Tao is also referred to as impartial, which is kind of hard for me to get my head around, if I think of the Tao as analogous to God, because MY God is — or at least WAS — extremely partial, and had attitudes and opinions about all kinds of stuff, and wasn’t exactly full of constant love and grace. Maybe He was just practicing, and He’s got his schtick down better now. I don’t know. I think I’m more faithful than ever, but also less reverent. No, I’m not. In fact, maybe I revere Him more than ever. I’m just also more irreverent, if that makes sense, considering all connotations of the term. I’m easier with Him. In fact, we have a meeting in about 15 minutes, so that’s all I can say for now.