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I am going to copy the short weekly homily printed on Page 7 of The Cavalier Chronicle, and comment on it. This homily was from the paper, distributed on 11/8/23 and the homily was form November, 12, 2023, and it was from the 1992 Revised Common Lectionary. Its title: I Pledge Allegiance.

 

Homily: “Whose orders do we obey? To whom do we confer our loyalty? Through the generations, people have determined to serve the Living God.  No other god suffices. Hear more of the Living God this week in church. When worship ends, service begins. The Lord our Go we will serve, and Him we will obey. Joshua 24:1-3a 14-25.”

 

My response:  We should receive and obey orders from the Divine Couple, from Jesus, from the Holy Spirit and other benign deities, as well as their angels, the Good Spirits. We should confer our loyalty to all of them, though we may only worship one of these deities.

 When worship ends, service begins; if we maverize and our life of self-development extends the cosmos and the reign of God, we are serving the good deities and that is very fine and commendable.

 

I learn something new about Christianity every time I read these “simple homilies.” This phrase, the Living God is brand new to me.

 

 

I googled this phrase and an entry came up: The Official Christianbook.com-Christianbook.com Official

 

Here is what they wrote: “The Living God is a term used to seperate The Creator God, the Almighty, the Highest, from the many other gods that do not inhabit eternity as Yahweh does and always did. He is the only giver of life and possessor of life. All life comes from Him. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.”

 

My response: Living God refers to Yahweh, God the Father, The Creator God, the Father of Jesus. He is living, real and inhabits eternity, unlike other pagan deities that never existed, were not real or do not inhabit eternity.

 

This monotheist God does not like us following other deities, but I think they give life and possess life, though maybe on a smaller scale. I think the Father or the Mother mind if we worship other deities as long as they are real, still exist, still respond to worshipers and are good.