![]() ![]() “Safe? Who said anything about being safe? Of course he isn’t safe. The children ask the Beaver if Aslan is safe. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I agree that we associate Jesus with someone of the character of Mister Rogers. He is a lot more wild than we give him credit for. Now having said all this, I do believe that we have white washed the power and judgement of God. Was there death in the Garden before the fall? Was there a need for carnivores to be carnivores? Was there a need for danger until the serpent entered? I really don’t have definite answers for that but it seems that if Eldredge’s premise is a perhaps a bit skued on this point. We have a world based on God’s commands, God’s love, and one on one communion with God. In the garden we have a world that is perfect. ![]() Perhaps some of the traits we see around us-danger, risk, etc are products of the fall. ![]() I would argue that the world could have been much more tame and not as wild before the fall. Eldredge says that since God created the world and since most of the world is dangerous and wild, then it obviously means that God prefers “adventure, danger, risk, and the element of surprise”. I am a little tepid to accept the adventure part though. I think the premise is quite clear that God definitely has a battle to fight (or better said battle that has been fought), and a beauty to win (his bride the church). I just would have chose somebody besides Mother Theresa to compare side by side with William Wallace.Įldredge goes on to state that God has a battle to fight, and adventure to have, and a beauty to win. I truly don’t picture Mother Theresa very mild. Mother Theresa was strong in her determination to rescue the poor in Calcutta. William Wallace was strong in his stance against the English. I would argue that both characters where strong in their own right. He makes the statement that he would rather be told to be like William Wallace from Braveheart. We are told to be nice, be swell, and be like Mother Theresa. Eldredge says that most people end with the vision of Jesus being “Mister Rogers with a beard”. People get their attitude of Jesus based on how their father was, the kind of pictures we always see of Jesus, and what the church tells us that Jesus was like. He believes that most men have a warped idea of who Jesus is and was. In Chapter 2, Eldredge makes that case that God is “wild at heart”. ![]()
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