I still do. I will until breath or thought are no longer mine. An intellectual idol if ever there was one, not of silver or gold, but of self-satisfaction and reassurance. Safe, warm, self-satisfied, self-established, self-proclaimed, self-determined, self-assured, and false.
Psalm One of the defining qualities of the True God is He is utterly transcendent. We do not define Him, in any way, form, or iota, nor, be forewarned and wary, should we ever be tempted to try.
He defines us. He does not need us. We need Him, desperately. Classical catechesis teaches us if God ever stopped thinking about us, we would vanish into nothingness.
He loves us, surely, but voluntarily loves us; the only true love, and utterly not out of some necessity. That would be some sort of co-dependency.
And I am unaware God is co-dependent. After the Resurrection, and even with the compilation, eventually, of the canon of Scripture, i. Details, details, details. Details are important. If, as the conventional wisdom goes, it is all about relationships, then details matter. Not so well, I confidently posit. And so, it goes with God, in that most important Relationship, upon which all depends, details matter. While the Church certainly faces its challenges in our own day, the first thousand years of Christianity were plagued by, among others, Arianism.
