Listening to the song Savior by Skillet I heard the phrase "redefine your deophobic mind". I've heard it before but I guess tonight it hit me for some reason. I went to webster.com and nothing is there. Went to Wikipedia and nothing was there. Hrm..what does "deophobic" mean. Google produced an interview from May of 2004 with Skillet front man John Cooper:
Kim - Honestly John, how many people know what deophobic means?
John - Well, deophobic's not actually a word. I just made that up.
Kim - Exactly.
John - But again, you kind of look into it and think about it. I mean, I think when you think about deophobic means, you kind of put the ideas together and it kind of makes sense. But again, that's not really the point of what we're doing. Coming back to Jesus - honestly - how many people understood Him when He said "If you don't hate your father and mother you can't be called my disciple. You're not worthy"? I mean that's kind of my take on it. I just think that it's coming down to what we have decided that Christianity is supposed to be instead of what the Bible has decided.
Number two on the Google list is deophobic.com. They define it as "The Fear of Faith in God". I guess this would be the closest thing to a dictionary definition. Its from the words phobic and deity.
deity
1 a : the rank or essential nature of a God.
phobic
1 a : having an intolerance or aversion for.
That sounds pretty good to me. However, when I hear it and think it over I see it from another perspective - the one that I think most deal with that have a fear of faith in God - the fear that they are human and can't look to themselves for all of the answers. Coming to the grips with the reality that we must humble ourselves before God, ask his forgiveness, and follow Him. This is not our nature and it scares the bejesus out of us! I remember it did me. So what do you do now? Ask someone you know and talk about it. Don't know anyone? Contact me. We all start our walk somewhere. What matters is that it starts.
God Bless.