Thursday, December 21, 2006

"God lives on the lips of believers...and nowhere else. When are believers
going to realize that if we all decided to stop speaking for God, he would be
unable to speak for himself?"
Wyrdsmyth

from the site fundies say the darndest things.

And in this case display the writer displays an ignorance of scripture and lack of trust in God. God is perfectly able to speak whether or not a human makes an utterance. In my particular tradition the words - effective calling - is but one of the doctrines that speak to whether God can speak without our help. And then the scripture reference that comes to mind is that of Jesus telling the disciples that if the people were silent the very stones would cry out - in more than one gospel.

And, while there may be a bit of attack in talking about this quote, it is still important to make sure that we let God be God and acknowledge that God is able to do all things. When foolish statements are made, such as this one that says God needs us to work, we need to recall that while God asks us to work, to serve, to worship, yet God does not need us to proclaim the good news.

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