God has forever redefined power in the Trinity! God’s
power comes through powerlessness and humility. The Christian God is much more
properly called all-vulnerable than almighty, which we should have suspected
and intuited by the shocking metaphor “Lamb of God” found throughout the New
Testament.
Unfortunately,
for the vast majority, God is still “the man upstairs,” a substantive noun more
than an active verb. In my opinion, this misunderstanding is partly responsible
for the quick expansion of practical atheism and agnosticism we see in the West
today. Rational and sincere people wonder, “If God is almighty and all-loving,
then why is there so much suffering in the world?” If God is all-vulnerable,
then perhaps God stands in solidarity with all pain and suffering in the
universe, allowing us to be participants in our own healing. This does not make
sense to the logical mind, but to the awakened soul it somehow does. – Richard Rohr
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