Samson was God’s action figure. God had one of his angels
impregnate a woman. The child grew into a man who amused God by his wanton
frolic and murderous temperament. Have no doubt God was amused by Samson’s antics.
Philistines were human beings. Samson slept with their
women. He slaughtered their men. He mass murdered their men and women. He was always righteous in
doing so.
An angel streams the information that is its genes into the
reproductive system of an organic life-form, producing a hybrid. God wrote the
information. He crafted the organic life-form. Samson and the Philistines were made by God. They were his to do with as
he pleased.
God was proud of the hair he made for Samson. It looked
good on the action figure. Samson’s indiscretion led to the hair being cut off.
He lost his strength accordingly.
God was proud of the eyes he made for Samson. They looked
good in the face of the action figure. The Philistines dared gouge out these
delights of God. The offenders were delivered into the hands of Samson
accordingly, to be destroyed for the offense. The beloved action figure failed
its maker but was blessed with the curse of a grim yet glorious end.
God is the Artist. All that he does is artful, whether
you approve or not. If he asks you your opinion, it is for his personal
amusement, to laugh at your answer. Humans are but lambs gathered for the
slaughter. They suffer pain and death. They deserve their suffering. God is
righteous to enjoy it.
There is more to the story. Though God loved Samson and
relished the murder and mayhem, they are not what he is about. Jesus was the
plan that would make all the ideas of God, his Father meaningful… and he came
to fruition.
Jesus is the Word of God, not his action figure. Unlike
Samson, he was not for his Father’s amusement. He was what his Father took
seriously. Samson was a creation interacting with other creations. Jesus was to
venture into the strangeness that changed everything. He was to make contact
with the indescribable, unimaginable thing
that always was as everything unto itself. The strangeness was not one or many.
It was not masculine or feminine. It did not think or feel. It did as it did,
always, and in all sincerity. Jesus was to make contact with it, with this thing utterly unaware of itself or
others. Unlike Samson, Jesus did not fail. Unlike Samson, who did as he did as
but another cog in the machine, Jesus had to go where no rules applied. He dared
where his Father could not go… and he came back… bringing the strangeness with
him… as him. Jesus, as the Word of God, was and is and shall always be God.
Filled with the strangeness that his father lovingly called the Holy Ghost, Jesus
became the Trinity.






