Crazy as they come

 

I may return to Jacob Böhme in the future, but here, let me just say that if what I read about his theology in "Kristendomens idéhistoria" by Alexander Radler is in any way representative, the man was a nutter of monumental proportions. He seems to have believed not only that evil comes from God, but that God has a split personality?! So is this where Jung got all those weird ideas in his Job book from? Or the "mature" Schelling when he got more Goth somehow? 

Ahem, no, dear Jacob, what you "saw" during your visions is either the Devil himself or, more likely, the fallen world-soul crying out for redemption. That´s not God. That´s us crying out for God! An atheist would say that you just saw the void in your own id and then interpreted it in a proto-Jungian way. But when you look into the void, guess what...

How can you be sure of your salvation if God isn´t perfect? If indeed God himself needs to be saved? And what kind of God is this, who needs a shoe-maker from Görlitz to save Him?