In Reply to: God, love & holiness posted by Chris (reposted) on August 06, 2006 at 01:32:58:
This quote stood out to me in particular tho it's on a slightly different topic:
The significance is in Berg's exaltation of 'God is Love' without respect for the power or holiness of God, as though the love of God nullified His holiness and transformed His power into something little more than a genie enslaved to our lusts or cravings.
I was just thinking today about Berg's attitude toward prayer. He literally DID say in one ML that God was like a genii in a bottle, there to do our bidding, & to prove his point, Berg quoted Isaiah 45:11 which says, 'Command ye Me'. One verse! And as it turns out, a verse that means exactly the opposite to what Berg said that it meant. In the following passage, God is chiding arrogant people who quarrel with him, question God as if he doesn’t know what he’s doing—and they know better—and who presume to give him orders, when after all, he created everything:
(vs. 9) Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? (vs. 10) Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’ (vs.11) This is what the LORD says—the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? (vs.12) It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens.
Boy! You know why they love their King James translation now.