I’m writing three articles at the moment.

I’m hoping to get one done soon. In the meantime, I want to post this quick.

I met a Baptist minister who was taught that there was a gulf, void, pit or division separating man from God and that obstacle was sin. I’ve  seen this preached in many churches. I’ve also seen this needs to be stressed to non-believers so they may see the circumstance they are in between god and man.

This logic boggles me. After Adam and Eve fell, God CAME and clothed them. While Cain was thinking about MURDERING his brother, God CAME and warned him about sin’s encroaching presence. When Israel refused to turn to God because of their sin, God  remained with His people through Israel’s prophets.

He kept coming to them with words of pain, warning, affection, promise and hope. God was in love with His called-out people and sin did not stop him from coming down and speaking into their lives. He was fully engaged with His people.

My Hebraic god knows my shortcomings and deals with me on these issues and teaches how I can walk in healing out of my pain and circumstances. He is WITH me even while I sin, even though I may feel Him grieve.

To those that don’t believe Him, they make Him grieve because He sees their hurt and  wishes to live in them to heal them of all their foolish sufferings. SIN DOES NOT SEPARATE GOD FROM MAN. God from the beginning, has proven to us that he keeps coming again and again to grace us and show us mercy.

He knows how fragile we are – but also knows how evil we can choose to be. Nevertheless, He is engaged FULLY in His creation. There is no rift. People can deny God – but He is still in their life blessing them and gracing them too. The scriptures declare that the whole earth is His and that nothing can separate us from the love of God – that seems to include UNBELIEF!

So what hole or rift is that cross actually filling in that diagram?

Hears a clue – the Hebraic sees God in all things. The Platonic divides separates God from all things. I encourage you to examine this topic further.

So I’ll let you do some research into this if you want. But this time you’ll…

Think Platonic! Not Hebraic!

Jake Elliot