101 Pieces of Baggage

-No pictures today because the cafe I normally use is closed today.-

A few things to catch up on:

• Caleb and Lindsey Crider welcomed their first son, Jonas Scott Crider, last Monday. Felicidades and congradulations!
• I've been invited to live with a friend of mine in his apartment, so I'm looking at going home for Christmas and coming back to Santiago.
• I've realized that most of my digital photos have been resized by posting them to my MSN group, and thus are too small now for using for an exhibit. Boo!
• It's raining again.

Further thoughts:

Well, I've been chewing on this idea of modernism and postmodernism for sometime now with respects to a realtionship with God. Being from a modernist culture, I've been engrained with the necessity of proof, with the idea that objective truth not only exists, but can be methodically proven. I've read all kinds of books and have heard all sorts of conversations and sermons on the topic of proving the existance, supremecy, or the character of God via logic. i.e. Many people believe "X" about God when in fact "Y" is true as proven by evidendes A, B, and C. Therefore, explain A, B, and C to the next person you meet who believes "X" and convert them. We have this deep need to win arguements and logically define the infinite God as proof that He exists. For truth is logical, and God is surely truth. As if He needed our help in existing and would cease to be if we happen to fail in our endevours of proof. I grow suspicious anytime we begin to construct ideas of God and reality that depend on us for their success or validity.

The thought occured to me today, that the postmodernist, whom we in our culture tend to view as illogical and faithless, is in a far better positon than we are to please God if "it is impossible to please God without faith." For by definition, if objective truth exists, we can not truely know it because all perspectives, proofs, and arguements are faulty and are insufficient to explain truth. In essence, he has nothing left to use but faith in order to know the Omnipotent. Is is possible that God would remove all other suports in order to lead us to depend solely on Him? It sounds to me exactly like the behavior of the God of Abraham.

When we, in a supposedly Godly culture, look to the postmodern culture, we see a land that is dry and arid, full of rocks and unsuitable for planting seeds. I think maybe God sees something different. Maybe he sees a people who are fed up with being manipulated, who are dissillusioned by the logic of this world that so easily fails, and who are not impeded in knowing Him by a need for proofs.

Maybe he sees a people who have no baggage that keeps them from faith.