Basics 2: Made in the Image and Likeness - Rev Paul Gonyea

“A lot of the problems we run into in our lives are created, and aggravated, not only by our limited view of God , but by our limited view of ourselves and of the world. In fact, that’s a much more common problem. The average individual seems to see the universe as a triangle, with a distant God up there, with us down here, and with the rest of the world over there, all of it separate. To their way of thinking, everything that happens is a result of either random selection, or the activity of some supernatural power whose mysterious purposes we can never hope to understand. So when good things happen, it’s either good luck, or God was doing them a personal favor. When bad things happen, it’s either bad luck, the devil causing trouble, or God being angry. That’s what a lot of people believe.”