Wednesday, May 4, 2016

MONISM VS. DUALISM





One woman I meet on a college campus assured me:

·       I am god but so is everyone else. We are all one without distinction. And because we are one, we can live in total love.

I responded that I respected her commitment to love and agreed that we need more of it. However, love depends upon the existence of more than one being. If we are all one, then by loving, I am merely loving myself, right?

Has God always been love? If God is not triune, then there would have been no object for His eternal love until He created us. To love Himself only would not have been love but narcissism. And if God is narcissistic, then perhaps we should also be narcissistic.

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