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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. – Deuteronomy 6:5-6
Many people may not realize that the when the Gospel writers have Jesus use these words that they’re having him quote Deuteronomy. It’s one reason that the questioner’s agreement is so plausible. How could he argue with his own religious texts?
Those who criticize religion, Christian or otherwise, like to quote passages that highlight the bloody, primitive history of humanity. They aren’t nearly so keen on talking about the reality that, while far from perfect, our faith has, for millennia, reflected the all-encompassing agapé relationship that we are immersed in with Theos.
The care and compassion that agapé calls us to in all aspects of our lives is the transformative power of a faith that transcends doctrine and dogma.
please explain you defenition of Theos.
Thanks,
Sherron
sd.reid@sasktel.net
Hi Sherron.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I'm actually writing a post on Theos as part of the Panentheism collection.
Theos is the word used in the original Greeek of the New Testament. It means more than some white-haired guy on a mountain, which is what most of us think of when use the word "God."
That definition of Theos would have been gibberish to the Gospel writers. Theos is "Divinity". The word is genderless. Theos is not a "he." It's also all-encompassing, which is quite contrary to the image we have of some distant deity existing apart from humanity or Creation.
This is only a brief reply and I hope you'll add any other thoughts/comments/questions. I hope to have the Theos article up for the end of this week.
In the meantime, you might be interested in the Panentheism articles if you haven't already read them.
David