THEOLOGY MUST BECOME ETHICS - Part 2

People Become Barney:
Consider this scenario – You have a baby boy… Like a good parent, you believe in feeding your child, so you do so… Now imagine being that little baby boy… You see mommy/daddy presenting you with your food day after day… The tasty daily delicacies always comes by means of this little shiny object – a spoon… So you grow to love seeing the spoon…

Now we have all watched little kids laugh hilariously when mom or dad do that little thing where they put the spoon in front of their kid’s face, then remove it quickly… Kind of teasing their child in a joking way… Hopefully you know what I’m describing…

The reason a little child laughs so hard is because they really believe that the spoon is appearing and disappearing… Their mental capacity actually makes them think that the spoon exists when they can see it… but when they can’t see it, they no longer believe it exists… Kind of like Barney…

Mental Maturity/Immaturity allows you to discern truth from lies…

Getting a Little more Personal:

In the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the author goes to great lengths to talk about the basics of making money… It’s a great read… very helpful to me while I was in my early 20’s… One thing I’ll always remember is one little section that talked about how people will start to believe HUGE lies in the hopes of making lots of $$$… This is why people often fall for scams and such… because of the HOPE of making lots of $$$…

They start to revert back to mental immaturity in hopes of getting something they really want!!!

Or stated another way – we ignore reality in order to better ourselves…

Tying It All In:All this talk of Barney, spoons, and money scams got me thinking…

It got me thinking that I am Barney…
I am the kid who thought the spoon disappeared…
I am the adult who got suckered into a money scam…

I AM THE ONE WHO HAS IMMATURELY IGNORED REALITY

More to come tomorrow…

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