Isaiah 7 Part 2

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Isaiah 7

Okay, so I've been thinking about this since yesterday.  The footnotes mention that the curds and honey is a food you eat only after all the good food has been eaten, so it's what happens when there is famine.

And here is a potential interpretation that I have come up with - an interesting chance to have an example of prophecies speaking to your way of seeing God at the moment, actually.

God is judgmental in the Old Testament, we certainly can't deny that.  He gives us rules and He judges us by those rules and by the way we act.

But once Jesus comes, He tells us to love one another and reverses a lot of the Judgment.  For one thing, He pays the price for us, but even before that - it becomes about Love rather than Rules.

I think when God became Man, that is when he learned to "reject the bad and choose the good" - which can for your money mean either that God stops using negative reinforcement and instead showers us with love and blessing and forgiveness or that this is when God really decides what makes a good person and a bad - not being of a particular tribe, not being of a certain belief, but Love of fellow man.

And yes, God is omniscient, which makes all this interesting.  BUT, does that mean that experiences still can't teach God what makes a good or a bad person?  After all, to Him time is all of a piece, so He would have known it from the beginning even if He learned it when He came as Jesus.  And that's...circular, so I'm going to jump out of that line of thought before I get trapped.

I find I really like that idea.