The last columns have been about coming closer to, and “seeing” God. The following verse tells about people who saw God so closely that they could not do their holy work.
1Kings8: 10-11 “When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled his temple.”
As usual, Catholic Fundamentalists seize upon any quantification of the physical reality we can find in Scripture and say: “Aha! God fills a building whose design and construction He inspired. That building, the Temple in Jerusalem, is duplicated in size by the Sistine Chapel, which is 40′ x 130′ x 68′ in height. So, we may conjecture that God is that size when He appears on earth as a cloud.
That’s the size of a tall, rectilinear barn. If we were to see a squarish cloud that size and shape, we would want to keep an eye on it, and show it to as many as we could. Something very special would be happening.
Cloud Computing
As readers are aware, Catholic Fundamentalists believe that our Iron Age vocabulary keeps us from getting closer to God. We have an easier time understanding the power He has when we use words that express His abilities in terms with which we are familiar. When we call Him “The Loving Programmer”, and realize that He can program particles and compile them into systems and beings, we understand a little better what some of His capabilities are.
Thinking of The Son as “The Program in Human Form”, is an aid to understanding the total fullness of His Being.
When we speak of The Holy Spirit as “The Holy Wireless Connector”, we more quickly have a deeper understanding of the relationship between Father, Son, and the entire Creation Program that He connects.
As we consider the few, short preceding paragraphs, we may envision God as an incredibly more powerful version of what many companies and organizations use to process information on a daily basis, “cloud computing”. This is the sort of helpful step forward in visualizing God’s reality in our own minds and in drawing closer to Him that we find when we start trying to describe God with words that describe the current technology with which we’re all more familiar. The time for trying to understand God by calling Him “The Great Clockmaker” or “The Great Physician” is past. Catholic Fundamentalism’s use of current technology translation can be a big help in getting our souls closer to God.
P. S.
Catholic Fundamentalism’s search for quantification includes questions about the size, appearance, duties, and comparative energy level of the saved human soul compared to the unsaved. The entire reading from November 2, 2010 follows, with the “quantification part” highlighted in black: Wi’s 3:1-9
“The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them. They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought an affliction and their going forth from us, utter destruction. But they are in peace. For if before men, indeed, they be punished, yet is their hope full of immortality; chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of Himself. As gold in the furnace, He proved them, and as sacrificial offerings He took them to Himself. In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble they shall judge nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord shall be their King forever. Those who trust in Him shall understand truth, and the faithful shall abide with Him in love: because grace and mercy are with His holy ones, and His care is with His elect.”
