God is great, God is greedy,
That’s not good news for the needy.
My already left-leaning hermeneutic has pretty well moved all the way to sympathetic interpretation since leaving the church, and that combined with an already “liberal” theology has afforded me the opportunity to perhaps remove some of the mystery from the enigmatic forty-fifth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel According to Matthew: because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous. (ISV)
It seems to me that the most difficult element of radical monotheism to comprehend is that, while God is good, God is also evil. If God experiences in and through creation as I have proposed, then it is not really God’s “business” to place limitations or restrictions on that process. Sacred scripture of nearly all faiths implies one way or the other that the one true God is omnipotent, capable of anything. We sin, we miss the mark, and we separate ourselves from the love of God when we fail to understand that the something which is everything is not only that which we desire it to be.
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