# 2- Divine Intention Of God

God is not an intruder, nor is He a visitor from out space. While theism carried the water (no pun intended) for so many centuries, the bucket is now empty. Theism defines God as one who is somewhere “out there” who intervenes in human affairs from time to time. This is in large part, why I developed the web site, Beyond Theism. Like this post modern world that we live in, I don’t know what’s after modern, so we call it “post” modern. I don’t know what’s beyond theism, but I have a hunch there is a lot of enlightenment. God is not an intruder because God is EVERYWHERE at work, in varying ways (can you say Omnipresent?). Why is this? It’s because it is the INTENTION of God to see that ALL are saved! It’s what your Bible says.

God is already here- no intrusion can be had. He is IN the world, and the world is IN Him (panentheism, not pantheism). God is the circumambient Reality outside of whom nothing can exist. And it is His INTENTION to redeem and restore (Acts 3:21) every creature that He has created.

This is one of the reasons God is called LOVE! :-)

God is everywhere in various means expressing Himself: in ways we don’t even know. But, if you want to know the fullness of God’s expression, then look to Jesus who was one of our kind, the Word made flesh, our brother. The divine INTENTION for all of humanhood is exemplified in Jesus, the Christ. There’s no way that we can deny the humanity of Jesus and still say He stood in our place.

Norman Pittenger said it this way (in 1959), “The line of thought which would suggest some catastrophic intrusion, some entirely unprecedented downthrust without parallel in any degree, makes nonsense both of the actual picture of Jesus in the gospels and the experience of men in finding God in Jesus as their human brother.”

Is this really so hard to comprehend?

Jesus doesn’t stand in the way of mankind’s search for God. Can you hear that? Jesus is the ultimate, express image of God, as the writer of Hebrews said, but not the “only” example. God can be found everywhere, as He is everywhere. Perfectly God meets us in the person of Jesus, while God meets in an imperfect way, others, in other places. God did not mess up, He did not have any oversight in His planning, and He will see to it that ALL of His creation is restored and He will be ALL in ALL, not some as I Cor. 15:22-28 says.

It’s called GOOD NEWS!

It’s called the divine intention(s) of God!

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