Love Revolution

a thought on labels

November 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Does God have labels for people or the authors who wrote about God? The Jewish view was that God shouldn’t even have a name because it might limit him, let alone write things down about him…they had a hard time when it came time to put God on paper, the canonization of the OT was an ardous problem for the Jewish people because they were afraid it would make God one-dimensional. I have been studying psych. for a bit, and one thing you learn about labels is that (1) they have the potential to limit not broaden, (2) they have the potential to be used for good or bad, but the fact that they are used brings opportunity for the opposite intention in the first place and (3) it limits the journey on discovering the potential of the object or the person that receives the label.

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