8 Words Response

This is a response to a blog post by a teacher of mine, Pastor Hendrickson, who's blog post can be found here : http://immersedinmystery.blogspot.com/2011/08/eight-words.html

Now, I read this blog post which he had created around the beginning of August, explaining a sort of revelation that he felt when he went to a cafe known as the 8 words cafe, which was owned by a pastor of his faith and he was told what these 8 words were, and came up with his own 8 words. Initially I found that the irony of the lucky woman to be getting married had the last name 'husband' to be quite funny. But in any case, if you read through the post at least somewhat thoroughly you will come to the conclusion that the 8 words, are the 8 words that really define what christianity is all about.

Love God with All

Love All with God

These words really spoke to me, as a non catholic, in my own ways. Now to clarify (since I have yet to post my religious beliefs on here, coming soon :P) I do not believe in God, I do not believe in creation, I do not believe in an afterlife or a divine purpose. At the same time I do not believe that our world was created purely as a result of science. So these 8 words seem like they would not make any sort of impact on me, however they did. I took these 8 words and began to hypothesize what I could possibly do with them to conform them to my beliefs.

This won't make much sense until you know my religious beliefs a bit better but in any case here is what I came up with.

Nothing.

That is what is driving me crazy, I find this to be fairly profound. I may just be too tired to come up with something but with every aspect of the christian religions I have been able to tie my religious beliefs to some aspect of christianity (loosely), but no matter how loosely I tie the shoelaces on these 2 commandments, I cannot really come to a good version for myself. I was able to come up with a bit of something, though. So I will share what I have come up with anyways.

There are 2 lines in the 8 words, the first 4 are easy for me to pair up to my religion.

Love God With All - This is basically saying that you must love God with all 4 aspects of your life, physical, emotional etc. - I can relate this to my religion, since 'primal thought', or the God of my religion required absolute devotion to be able to give us exactly what we demand.

The second of the 4 word sets was.

Love All With God - This is where I get lost, please bare with me as I will be explaining this further in a later post(s) but, basically, there is little to no point to love or care for others in my religion, unless it benefits you. Yeah yeah I know it sounds nasty, but when you really debunk it, you realize how charity and helping others is easily the mot benificial thing to do in what I believe, but is certainly not the focus, by any means. For this reason I am unable to make a perfect conformity of the 8 words to my religion.