G.K. Chesterton wrote an incredible book called Orthodoxy. Here is a quote from this book.
"All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if a thing goes on repeating itself it is probably dead...The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his leg rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy..."
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this is a good train of thought - the obvious rebuttal stands, though, that we rarely think of boredom, weary uniformity, or tediousness when we think of God’s creation – with its assortment of animals, billions of stars, and ridiculous hairstyles on Vernon’s head. So, we must delve further, and realize that while God exclusively creates a variety of things, he enjoys uniformity in the behavior of those things – the sun’s iterations; the consistency of Jesus who is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow; man’s obedience – does the analogy still hold? we should create a diversity of works by the power of the Holy Spirit but act in consistency through the commandment of proverbs 24:21
yes! yes! "anonymous". I agree with your thoughts (especially the strange hair issues I seem to have). I would also say that many professing Christians are unfortunately bored. This is not because God is boring, so I guess it narrows down the problem of the source.
It seems that if Christians would celebrate the infinite brilliance, consistency, and expressions of God, so many would be set free from trying to be original. This does not mean that new things will not manifest (because God is infinitely deep), but all things should lead back to Him. Thus, what should happen is the celebration of God's infinite "sameness" by manifesting thanksgiving in an infinite amount of ways!
Chesterton goes on to say, "There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad."
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