Creating controversies
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that my own story would set off a controversy.
I see it as borderline blasphemy.
- from a post at Bloggenspiel
She mostly feels that my story makes God too "human" or "ordinary". In my comments, she says,
Personally, I think you went a bit far in attempting to re-interpret God's Holy Book.
Here is my response, also posted in her comments thread:
We are coming from totally different directions, Melissa.
- I never said I was re-interpreting the Bible, or trying to "make it better".
- I was also not trying to re-write His Word to "make it more entertaining".
- I agree that God is greater than our puny minds can fathom.
- As the story was never intended to be a document for people to base their faith on, I glossed over many things - such as the Old Testament's sacrificial system.
- I used many words very loosely because I was aiming for overall effect, not for detailed accuracy. (this is probably where I went wrong)
- The main thing I wanted to convey was how God feels towards us and how He has always been the one to reach out to us, calling us into a relationship with Him.
That's all.
I also would like to point out that in the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin, the shepherd and the woman both had to search for the sheep and the silver coin respectively. Now, isn't God all-knowing, and wouldn't He have already KNOWN where the sheep and coin were? Why would He have to search? Yet Jesus, in telling these parables of His Father's heart for the lost, used the words "lost", "search" ("seek" in KJV), and "find".
Apparently Jesus didn't realise that He'd made His Father out to be entirely too human.