Late last night, I was looking at Isaiah 31.
Isaiah 31:3 is a thunderclap to God’s people to not trust in men. And just thinking about this verse, I know why. The contrasts between God and men is unfathomable.
On Sundays, I have had the privilege to teach an energetic group of 4th – 6th graders. What an opportunity to minister!
This morning, I read to them some of the words that I penned last night:
Man is not the same kind of species as a pig. God is not the same kind of species as a man. God is sovereign Ruler over all his created species, including man and pig.
If God became man, it would be by far the greater condescending act of humility than a man becoming a pig. If man became like Yahweh, the Christ, it would be like a pig now acting like a man, no more wallowing in the mud.
I don’t wallow in the mud. Yet I long for that new day when I wallow no more in sin, free from all physical taint of the wicked mire. I am thankful for the absolutely unique, incomprehensible (but personal and intimate) bridge between species . . . Jehovah, God-Man.
It snowed today in Idaho Falls, and I can hardly wait for Christmas, the celebration of the Incarnation.
So, friends, among the precious rows of kids, we had a good discussion about God, men, pigs, and mud before we moved on to another biblical text.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 
Todd
I’ve been a bit ill and unable to get online for some time. But I’m getting better, so you may hear more from me.
A good topic. I know the Protestant feeling of God. In fact my last post is on this very subject of the difference between our gods. To move you to an entirely new perspective is to completely revolutionize your whole spiritual meaning. You like your weird, unfathomable god. This mysterious, totally inconsistent god stretches your mind beyond your normal day to day life. It’s like watching Star Wars, but even better. But is he the real God?
You know, as well as I do, that when the Bible talks of man or men the word used refers to mankind: A fallen people. Is God like normal mankind that cheat and steal etc. But not all men are like mankind either. The spirit frees, as Paul informs us. We can become Christlike in our actions and thoughts.
Welcome back, Doug.
Is all “Protestant feeling of God” . . . “like watching Star Wars, but even better?”
No, not really. Maybe, some in Protestant stone halls and spired cathedrals might think this, but not me.
And on “becoming Christlike” . . . I know I won’t be creating life, resurrecting life, saving life, and judging life, etc. just like Christ. I love him and trust him as the one completely sufficient for all these matters, now and forever.
There is only one Man set apart from all other men.
Todd
Thanks.
You make statements of your opinion of what you can and can’t ever do. But the reason Protestantism ever started was because the Catholics did this very same thing. Whatever the priest said became the mind and will of God. Protestantism cannot (theoretically) create doctrine without claiming that it actually originated and can be supported from the Bible.
I would certainly support your last paragraph. But what has that to do with your point of whether the Father is a man, other than that you agree that Jesus Christ (the Son of that Father) is a man?
Doug, I know our debate is over whether the Bible is the originating source for supporting the idea that God the Father is a man.