Understanding the Book of Job may be the key to comprehending Jesus' use of the shockingly familiar term Abba to refer to G-d. The deity in Job emerges as very close to the deity who confronted Moses in the wilderness and spoke out of a burning bush. This deity does not reveal his name. He or she is who he or she is. I am I. We presume when we use any name to refer to this reality. By using Abba, Jesus reduced to the level of simple absurdity any actual effort to grasp the awesome totality. But all these imperfect meanings of the deity aim at a single suggestion - that we are to regard the totality of what is with a measure of humility and that we are to understand that our proper location in it as that of joyful recipients of awareness - mediated by the likes of Moses' encounter with the bush, Job's encounter in the epiphany and the entire corpus of Jesus' instructions to us as to how we are to live and understand things, minus the ecclesio-creedal overlay.
10/1/11
Understanding the Book of Job May Be The Key
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Understanding the Book of Job may be the key to comprehending Jesus' use of the shockingly familiar term Abba to refer to G-d. The deity in Job emerges as very close to the deity who confronted Moses in the wilderness and spoke out of a burning bush. This deity does not reveal his name. He or she is who he or she is. I am I. We presume when we use any name to refer to this reality. By using Abba, Jesus reduced to the level of simple absurdity any actual effort to grasp the awesome totality. But all these imperfect meanings of the deity aim at a single suggestion - that we are to regard the totality of what is with a measure of humility and that we are to understand that our proper location in it as that of joyful recipients of awareness - mediated by the likes of Moses' encounter with the bush, Job's encounter in the epiphany and the entire corpus of Jesus' instructions to us as to how we are to live and understand things, minus the ecclesio-creedal overlay.
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Understanding the Book of Job may be the key to comprehending Jesus' use of the shockingly familiar term Abba to refer to G-d. The deity in Job emerges as very close to the deity who confronted Moses in the wilderness and spoke out of a burning bush. This deity does not reveal his name. He or she is who he or she is. I am I. We presume when we use any name to refer to this reality. By using Abba, Jesus reduced to the level of simple absurdity any actual effort to grasp the awesome totality. But all these imperfect meanings of the deity aim at a single suggestion - that we are to regard the totality of what is with a measure of humility and that we are to understand that our proper location in it as that of joyful recipients of awareness - mediated by the likes of Moses' encounter with the bush, Job's encounter in the epiphany and the entire corpus of Jesus' instructions to us as to how we are to live and understand things, minus the ecclesio-creedal overlay.
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