The Otherness of God: God is self-dependent. As the creator and sustainer of life and the entire physical/material realm, all beings and all that exists... everything that is, is dependent on Him. But God, He is self-dependent... He depends on no one or nothing... depending for Himself on Himself. This God who has no beginning or end of days is self-sufficient in His own sufficiency. And God is unique in this Otherness: Not the mosquito launching into dinner provided by your arm, not the subatomic particle held in check by external invisible forces, not planet earth swinging through space on a predetermined course as if tethered to the hand of God like a Yoyo, and certainly not man who is dependent for everything that constitutes life... even his very breath. No, God is quite unique in His Otherness. It is this Otherness of God, that He is unlike anything... totally and uniquely unique... lacking nothing and needing nothing, that stirs rebellion in the heart of man... rebellion fueled by pride and coveting... rebellion that demands equality with God. This is the fundamental, primal nature of sin, this unwillingness to let God be God, acknowledging His Otherness, and acknowledging our dependence on Him for everything that constitutes life itself. We seen this in Lucifer’s fall from the mountain of God, in Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in the dispersion at the Tower of Babel, and we see it today in the use of technology... modern man’s Tower of Babel. There is a huge difference in being “Like God”, which we are in our rational, moral, social and spiritual capacities... in every way God intended, and “God Like”, independent and equal to God. Sin... all sin, is a revolt against God’s Otherness, His unique authority, and an attempt at Self-deification. Man’s attempts at becoming God Like can be dangerous... try breathing without air... God will not strive with man forever...
GOD IS SELF-SUFFICIENT
IN HIS OWN SUFFICIENCY
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