C3, S5, P8: It was of great assistance to me to read John Dominic Crossen’s book, “How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian”. In it he uses the term, Bipolar God. I believe that God created human after the nature of God and then humans turned right around and created God or Gods after their own split nature. In early pre-religious thought, that started to develop between 70 to 30 million years ago, there are depictions of spirits etc. The early Hebrew people and the early pantheon of Gods of ancient Greece and Rome all exhibit the bipolar nature of God, both loving humans and wishing to destroy them. The story lines vary but whether represented in one God or many, the dual natures or qualities of God, both punishing and loving are evidence to me that we have created an image of God like us. This section of the course explains that because everything humans make, involves perception and projection, evaluation and judgement it would make sense that the God we “made” and many of us were taught about is a reflection of projection and judgements. The Course is very singular in saying there are no exceptions to the loving nature of God. It has been both refreshing and difficult to wrap my mind around this concept and take it to heart. Later in the Course it talks about our fear of God, and this too is very evident of our ego projections on the nature of God. When we contrast the Hebrew story of Genesis 2 and the story of the prodigal child in the teaching of Jesus, we see a marked difference in the nature of the God/Father they portray.
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