God's Experience Of Man

Heraclitus says that the diving being is like a playing child. By this he means, I believe, that the deity does not "work" for a living, rather he plays..meaning that there is no such thing as a matter of life or death for the deity; he just does, and it is all rather like playing: if someone dies, raise them up and play again tomorrow. He also means that there is some incredible innocence with the deity which we find hard to understand. The innocence of the child, not corrupted by evil...yet, his actions not yet coerced into working by the sweat of one's brow...just filling one's day with play, is an image we cannot deal with. Heraclitus is saying that God may be aware of man's sinfulness, but He cannot "know" this sinfulness in the same sense that man is aware of it, and sorrowfully "knows" it. Since God cannot know evil in the same way man does: that is, He cannot carry it with Him as part of his individual history of life!!; it seems God cannot experience the good that man experiences, either. if God is so innocent, then He is the paradigm of the being in an ivory tower. If a man exhibited such non-involvement in humanity, we would shun him. Yet our God does, and we assume we know Him...intimately even, although He is remote in the sense that we do not know His mind. We do not. How could we? God himself strives to relate and understand being-in-the-world , because if He were to live in the world, He would be limited, circumscribed, and prone to death. Thus, He sent his Son. He spoke to the Prophets. He created man to meditate and gain his release. There is a book titled "Towing Jehovah", wherein God comes to Earth, dies, and thus forms a rather large corpse - about the size of Baffin Island - to be removed from shipping channels. God is always coming to Earth. He is always dieing... and we are always dragging the remnants of the divine off to some dump.