Don't Put God In A Box

[ResidentAlien]

How many times have you heard this? When someone says don't put God in a box, aren't they really saying don't put God in the Bible? In other words, the box is the Bible.

 

[tourist]

I guess it's a matter of appropriate packaging.

 

[Fundaamental]

How many times have you heard this? When someone says don't put God in a box, aren't they really saying don't put God in the Bible? In other words, the box is the Bible.

I've found it comes from people with a narcissistic personality to control people around them or a narrative

People test God and limit him. to there control or there order of putting things in order.

 

[Lanolin]

wasnt He in the ark of covenant or was that not a box.

 

[Lanolin]

I have not heard this phrase, but there is a movie called The Dropbox, which I recommend seeing. Its about a Korean pastor who saves babies from dying from abandonment by installing dropbox or a baby box in his church. He then looks after them.

 

[Fundaamental]

wasnt He in the ark of covenant or was that not a box.

yup and many times the Israelites limited God when he was in the ark of the covenant,

Maybe they thought they had God under there control at times

 

[Nehemiah6]

wasnt He in the ark of covenant or was that not a box.

No. God was never "in" the Ark of the Covenant. His glory was always above and over it (Exod 25:22). Putting God in a box (metaphorically) is trying to limit God in some way.

 

[ResidentAlien]

God has put Himself in a box because He's a good and loving father. A father who never gives clearly defined boundaries and acts erratically and unpredictably is a tyrant.

 

[Beckie]

wasnt He in the ark of covenant or was that not a box.

Aaron's rod, Manna, and the Stone tablets of the Law

 

[Beckie]

God has put Himself in a box because He's a good and loving father. A father who never gives clearly defined boundaries and acts erratically and unpredictably is a tyrant.

His Box lets us know, if we bother to look in it, are what His gifts are. We can find out if preacher Joe is Godly. Are there NEW Truths? His Box is full of many things, wisdom and knowledge.

I like the comparison

 

[Dino246]

How many times have you heard this? When someone says don't put God in a box, aren't they really saying don't put God in the Bible? In other words, the box is the Bible.

No... what they usually mean is don't limit God by your own understanding and experience. Typically, it is because people don't know the Bible that they "put God in a box".

 

[Aaron56]

If God is limited in any way it is self-imposed.

 

[RaceRunner]

How many times have you heard this? When someone says don't put God in a box, aren't they really saying don't put God in the Bible? In other words, the box is the Bible.

What they really are thinking is that they want God to overlook whatever heresies they are choosing to and believe.

 

[Nehemiah6]

If God is limited in any way it is self-imposed.

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend... Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict. Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart. (Job 37:5,23,24)

 

[RaceRunner]

If God is limited in any way it is self-imposed.

God is not limited; we are limited by the heresies we believe and the sins we commit.

 

[Fundaamental]

If God is limited in any way it is self-imposed.

yup

Psalm 78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 41 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 41 Again and again they tested God's patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

 

[Pilgrimshope]

How many times have you heard this? When someone says don't put God in a box, aren't they really saying don't put God in the Bible? In other words, the box is the Bible.

It really should be the parameter by what ch we learn and understand God within the understanding offered in the Bible’s pages because that’s the way God has presented himself to us by his own words recorded for all to be able to know and hear

 

[ResidentAlien]

One thing I've noticed are a lot of people who complain that doctrine has become obsolete; it's a source of division and conflicts. Therefore, doctrine must give way to the Spirit; the Spirit must be given first place and the Bible second place. But to me this seems like a huge mistake. We don't need more "spiritual" chaos. By the same token we don't need false doctrine. What we need more than ever is to truly understand what God wants to teach us through His word.

 

[ResidentAlien]

Many doctrines are trivial but have taken on a huge importance beyond what they merit. Jesus warned the Pharisees about elevating trivial matters to a place of great importance and ignoring the truly important things. It's not hard to know what the trivial matters of our day are. They're debated here day after day continually.

 

[Blade]

Well how you look at it.. maybe this helps "there is no spoon". haha. So one could also say its a lack of knowledge.

A false doctrine so many times is nothing more then a lack of understanding. More often then not we just have not grown enough to see that meat. But I have not heard that saying...for many many years now