More on the Victimhood of God Part 2

...In each moment we have a choice to make. Are we going to make God more or less present in this world. All things everywhere have the power to make the ideal real. God's very being, His very soul, is found in that ideal. The ideals with which God fertilizes the world are what keep it going. Without this influx of ideals, the freedom that the world exhibits would tear it apart. The ideals that God IS become limiting factors, an object can only stray so far from that ideal. Thus the freedom of objects is limited. It is limited to varying degrees, but still limited. Yet the freedom itself is dependent on the ideals. Without some direction, freedom is pure chaos. Every choice has to be graded off an ideal, to be sensical at all.

What's more, this ideal image ensures the eternity of all good acts. For every ideal God creates has within it an entire history of all the actualized ideals that have come before. God's vision of the future is based on what has happened in the past, and so every positive act, and every suffering that was part of the struggle towards a better world, is contained within the ideal that God exists as. God remembers all that happens, and uses that past history to try to make the world a better place.

Yet it remains true that the ideal is often thrown aside. God dies in the world. But this death is not permanent. If it were, the world itself would cease to exist. God in the next moment seeds the world with new ideals, increased or decreased by what has come before. In every moment, Christ is born, crucified and resurrected.

Jesus, for me, was the culmination of one particular line of ideals God started a long time ago. Jesus is the ideal image of God's actions in the world. Jesus shows us what God is. God slowly, by guiding love and seeded ideals, moved the world forward, until it culminated in a single event: the coming of the man Jesus. In Jesus God pushed back from the other side, and gave us a message of love. Thus Jesus plays an ontological role for me. He is the source of a 'good contagion', a vaccine that is spreading throughout human kind. That contagion is an idea, an idea that came into the physical universe from the realm of ideas. It is the idea that God is Suffering, Redeeming love.