History does not exist in a paradisical world where time has no meaning. Without birth, death, and all the violence in-between, there is nothing to record for the bliss of every moment is continual, without disturbance. Life in paradise is peaceful, joyful, without need or desire.
Truth is the judgment of the cross on the world, in this world we crucify God daily to our systems as we face our struggle to survive in a hostile world. When truth is silenced, the voice of God is crucified.
The Lord taught his disciples to pray with a model prayer. The prayer affirms the oneness of humanity under the love of God our Father. The prayer teaches us that God’s reality is apart from the daily experience of humanity.
In Scripture, it is not the language of law that communicates God, it is not the philosophers strenuous exercise in dialectics that communicates God - it is the prophets poetry, the wiseman’s story, the language of the song….
The early Pentecostals learned to refine their preaching and worship in a manner that led to people feeling free to release their pain through exuberant and ecstatic worship. I would also say God’s spirit was there to aid them (the sincere) along the way, not merely show up to help after they had reached their cathartic state.
