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RE: A different way of thinking
Thank you. I appreciate your sincerity and a moving metaphor but I am afraid I do not understand it. I am sure many animal motivations will always remain a mystery to us humans but I see nothing profound there.
I am no expert on religion either and that is why I asked this question. One Sunday I had several nice young couples come to my front door asking whether I accepted Christ as my personal saviour. In probing their reasons for asking me this very personal question, I gradually formulated this question which always left them confused and saying that the answer must be in the bible if only they can find it. They said they would get back to me with an answer but so far none have.
I am amazed that they can have such strong sincere beliefs about my salvation without knowing how to answer this very basic question about their own.
Berhaps we have at last discovered the answer to that eternal problem of how to get rid of thr bible bashers at the front door.
RE: A different way of thinking
Is this metaphor supposed to be relevant?
After all, if this woman were omnipotent, then solving her goose problem would be trivial. And it seems pretty unlikely that, were she omnipotent, she would choose to become a goose and "explain" it.
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A different way of thinking
I am not an expert on religion and even with my beliefs and understanding of the Passion I don't think I would come close to the "truth" but I would like to share one story with you that my pastor told his congregation during an Easter service.
One cold morning a woman woke up to a loud noise outside. There was a huge flock of geese that were flying over her house on their way South for the winter. As she watched them a few very young geese landed in her front yard. She thought this strange because the rest of the flock continued on toward their final destination. She couldn't understand why they just stood there in her yard. After some time she decided to go out there and try to "shoo" them back into the sky. She knew in her heart that if they didn't return to their flock they would die a cold death when winter set in.
She went outside and began to try and get them back into the air. However, with every attempt these young geese continued to stay firm in her yard. They had no desire to return to the flock and it seemed that they had no understanding of the consequences of their actions.
This went on for quite some time.
Through this time the lady's worry began to grow, as did her desperation. She just couldn't understand what they must be thinking and why they were still in her yard.
In resignation she sat down on her porch and wept. "Why? She cried? If I could just become a goose I could explain to them the error of their ways and help them return to the flock. "
And then it hit her
That is what the life of Christ was all about.
Hopefully I did this story justice and I hope you get out of it what I did when I first heard it. I think it's a wonderful and simple explaination of why God did what he did.
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