Thursday, December 2, 2010

God and quality!

When I read chapter 17 of Zen, and Phaedrus was trying to describe the non-describability of quality, what popped into my head were the parallels between that and God, in the sense that it's hard to describe God; however, most humans in history, and most cultures, have been aware of a greater Being than themselves. Phaedrus "reversed the basic rule that all things which are to be taught must first be defined... He was pointing to no principle.... but he was pointing to something, nevertheless, that was very real, whose reality they couldn't deny." (p. 210) I feel like this is the way it is with God. Although values could still be established, they wouldn't have much (if any) purpose without Him.
In a sense, God is ultimately tied to quality. He judged His own work as soon as he made it, seeing "that it was good". He made everything as quality, setting a standard to which we inadvertently and naturally refer. We usually know when we fall short of this standard, but He gave us the Ten Commandments (and all the other laws) to remind us of the fact that we will always fail on our own strength. And then He gave us Jesus/Himself to fix everything. And all creation groans for that time that all will again be quality.

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