Where is my God?
The New Testament, from what I've seen, says very little concerning God as an anthropomorphic entity.
The Old Testament, as I'm sure I've told you at some point, or more likely more than once, is borrowed from older sources.
So where is God? If you can't trust what is said in the New Testament because of ecumenical politics, and the Old Testament is essentially Sumerian mythology fixed-up with new names and a rather sloppy editting job, from where does a man derive his concept of the Almighty?
I can stare up at the stars and know - this is past simple belief - that there is a God. No doubt in my mind. But how exactly can a man explain his belief in an entity that lies beyond the grasp of language, if there has never been a definition of what this entity is? Must I grapple with an incredibly inarticulate - relatively speaking, of course, because I find that for other ends, English is a wonderful device - cudgel, when to describe my Creator I would need something infinitely more precise than a scalpel?
You might wonder why I desire to explain the unexplainable, to articulate the inarticulable, so strongly. I've heard that you can only truly know that you understand something once you find that you can teach it - my math teacher used to say that all the time several years ago. Probably still does, now that I think about it. I think that this might be it - can I truly know that I understand this God when I'm incapable of explaining him - and these days I'm actually leaning more towards "her" - to others? Maybe it shouldn't matter. But then, I can't quite look up at the stars and not feel some compulsion to share what little I know with those I care about.
The Old Testament, as I'm sure I've told you at some point, or more likely more than once, is borrowed from older sources.
So where is God? If you can't trust what is said in the New Testament because of ecumenical politics, and the Old Testament is essentially Sumerian mythology fixed-up with new names and a rather sloppy editting job, from where does a man derive his concept of the Almighty?
I can stare up at the stars and know - this is past simple belief - that there is a God. No doubt in my mind. But how exactly can a man explain his belief in an entity that lies beyond the grasp of language, if there has never been a definition of what this entity is? Must I grapple with an incredibly inarticulate - relatively speaking, of course, because I find that for other ends, English is a wonderful device - cudgel, when to describe my Creator I would need something infinitely more precise than a scalpel?
You might wonder why I desire to explain the unexplainable, to articulate the inarticulable, so strongly. I've heard that you can only truly know that you understand something once you find that you can teach it - my math teacher used to say that all the time several years ago. Probably still does, now that I think about it. I think that this might be it - can I truly know that I understand this God when I'm incapable of explaining him - and these days I'm actually leaning more towards "her" - to others? Maybe it shouldn't matter. But then, I can't quite look up at the stars and not feel some compulsion to share what little I know with those I care about.