The
God of the Bible (there are many gods in the Bible, but I mean Yahweh, the god
who is vulnerable enough to approach us in hope of friendship) is not
all-powerful.
This
god insists, and consistently models, that power is dispersed across all
creation. To stars and planets, including our own, whose physics makes life
possible. To the moon over the sea, to the sky and the sea and the land. Among
all living things, plants and animals, to reproduce and evolve, and hold all in
self-giving mutual interdependence.
To
angels and mortals; to mighty emperors and lowly disciples; to women and
children and men; to widows and orphans and aliens, and to those who honour
them. To all. To you. The very breath of life. Power that this god does not
retract when it is misused by others; which is by no means to abdicate personal
responsibility for justice.
No,
this god is not all-powerful. And therein lies this god’s freedom, this god’s
majesty, beauty, holiness. This god’s ability to transform the world, for good
and not evil.
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