God and me: a like-minded pair?
Part 3: Behold, I have become God – and I mean that very humbly
What have we said? The mind of God is – sorry, can be – the same as our mind. Rather than thinking I have destroyed God, or, at least, terribly demeaned him with this idea, claiming that God is nothing more than something our minds can do, let us instead take in the awesome elevation of what this means for us: we can take on – and become – the mind of God.
This is not some megalomaniac delusion: “Look at me, I’m God really!” Remember, there is absolutely NO endorsement of ordinary humanity as though it has divine status. The idea only has any validity at all IF we can be transformed by giving our minds to God and allowing him to shape us so that we “take on the mind of God”. In practice, of course, this will never be fully achieved, but even aiming for it raises our question about the relationship between our minds and God’s.
If some sort of correlation, no matter how imperfect, between our mind and God’s is possible, what might this mean in practice?
We might begin by thinking in terms of us, as individuals, being in complete agreement with God. Not simply in the usual terms of believers acknowledging – wholeheartedly – that they understand that what God thinks is completely and absolutely right and good (believers have always accepted this), but we would be saying that, in practice, the person has come to completely desire what God desires. There would be no more divided will, whereby the believer wants, in their inmost being, the same as God, but other parts of their will want what is contrary to God’s will. If a believer could attain some sort of integrity, or full inner harmony, so that they experienced no inner conflict – on at least some points – then, to this degree, their mind would be the same as the mind of God. God would not have to tell the person: “Do this, for this is my will”, because the person would say, “I have already decided to do this, for it is my will too”.
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