A proponent of #neighborology posted this on his Facebook wall last Holy Week.
"God was NOT up in heaven while Jesus was down on earth. God was right there IN Jesus on Calvary. In Jesus, GOD took the punishment for us. The JUDGE of the heavens is judged. Jesus' cry of abandonment on the cross is God's own LAMENT." -Dorothy and Gabriel Fackre
This is what happens when you confine God in a box called spacetime na as if ang Dios ay nasa domain ng material din. The truth of the matter is, God is both immanent (malapit) and transcendent (beyond or outside His creation). God was in heaven and He was also on earth. Ano may binary na ganyan ang Dios na pag nasa Caloocan ka, wala ka sa Cubao?
Ang #neighborology would use this to sort of Romanticize the idea of the "love wins" incarnated God at the expense of His transcendence. Ang malimit na ginagawa sa secular na publuc space ay ganyan -- ibaba ang nature ng Dios sa level ng humans. So sa kaso nga netong post na 'to, hindi na Siya omnipresent.
Ano parang ghost town sa langit? So maging mapanuri tayo. Minsan ang error nagmumukhang tama kung sinasamahan ng katotohanan.
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