Time to remember.

I was JUST listening to the radio after I got back home and heard a refreshing sermon:

Idolatry is much broader than just a guy sitting with a pig figurine juxtaposed to candles and such... Idolatry begins when we first try to postulate anything about God that is not God. When we seek God in something that is untrue, we are committing idolatry. The most advanced stage of idolatry leads to the formation of a new god of our liking.

God's supremacy, nature, and attributes are revealed in only one place. The Bible. However, it's impossible to understand his nature... to know what He is like. Thus, the only way of understanding some of Him is by seeing what He is NOT like. Most of our descriptions about God include a negative. What I mean is, or what the guy that was talking on the radio means, is that that we cannot say God is holy without referring to the only thing we DO know... sin - we know that God is NOT sin. In the same manner, when we say that God is love, we automatically refer to the love we know here on Earth. So when people say "God doesn't love me" they are saying that the love they know is the supreme, perfect and the ultimate design and form of love in the universe. Hmm...

The same way that we say God is omnipresent, people have come up with pretty good questions: For example, if God is really omnipresent, doesn't that mean that He is tainted... that He is impure, because that would mean everything on Earth, including all of the atrocities of human beings is within God. Doesn't his omnipresence also mean that when the Bible says "and He was far from them" or ... He was near them... it's placing a flaw in God's attribute? The man on the radio said this: We have to think of God in 2 ways: Both essence, and relation. God is everywhere in essence, but He may be indeed be farther or closer to some in RELATION. One thing is for sure... there cannot be the RELATION part without the ESSENCE part being omnipresent in the first place. Lastly, God is not affected by/changed by the impurities of this world. He is everywhere in essence, but He does not mingle with impurity.

Lastly... God as an infinite being. Holy smokes... This one got me. I'll let you think about this one :)