God figure as the anti-hero .....

a parable where Jesus isn't afraid
to have the god figure look disreputable.

A certain judge (grk=krites) (the god figure)
who respected neither public opinion, or god.

He breaks all the rules of the judging business,
to become a self-serving agent of grace.
This is god being God.

He is not stuck in a god box
and He is not stuck in a theologians box.

There was a widow (chera)
who asked the judge for a
favourable judgment (ekdikeson)
against her adversary.

the widow is a loser in this life,
but she thinks she can be a winner
by getting some marginal justice.

For a while (epi chronon) (earthly time)
the judge tells her that her case is worthless.

Afterward (meta tauta) (God time)
the judge had a change of heart.

The judge reasons :
simply because she is giving me trouble (tsouris)
I will grant her favourable judgment
so she doesn't wear me out (hypopiaze).

The God figure is willing to be perceived as unjust,
so as to get a world full of "loser" "winners" out of his courtroom.

Yes, those losers-who-think-they-are-winners,
who are still mired in their futile pursuit of
the spiritual buck,
the moral buck,
the intellectual buck,
the physical buck,
or the financial buck.

While we were yet sinners
Christ died for us. (R5)

This God doesn't even wait for us to accept that we are losers;
He simply goes ahead with His own plans for us in His Time (kairos).

Like the prodigal father,
He just wants us to stop being wet blankets,
and let the party begin !!!

(parable in L18)
(more reading in "Kingdom, Grace, Judgment" by R. Capon)
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