Our image of God creates us. There is an absolute connection between how we see God and how we see ourselves and everything else; our reality, our truth.
This is why good theology and spirituality are essential to how we live our daily lives in this world. God is Reality with a Face—which is the only way most humans know how to relate to anything. Most people’s image of God is initially a subtle combination of their parents or other early authority figures.
Scholastic philosophy taught us that “whatever is received is received in the manner of the receiver.” This is one of those things hidden in plain sight and still remains well-hidden to most Christians.
Without an inner journey of contemplative prayer and inner spiritual experience, much of religion remains largely childhood conditioning.
John 1:10-13 "He came into the very world He created, but the world didn’t recognize Him. He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him. But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God."
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