| What is God
Posted: 1/23/2008 3:03:15 AM | | Aquinas actually says we can't know what God is in this life. He argues that only (providing we die in a state of grace) will we be able to see the divine essence through the light of glory, in heaven. Mathew Fox in the book 'Sheer Joy' contains a good selection of the quotes from Aquinas about the classical 'via negativa theology' which says what God isn't, as opposed to what God is. | |
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| What is God
Posted: 1/23/2008 7:30:52 AM | Who is God? seems like a harder question then what is god. Who would indicate that there is some relationship with what ever it or he/she is. Many people say they have a personal relationship with 'him' however they struggle to say who he is or even what he is. I'm pretty sure i can come up with a good representation of anyone I have a relationship with and they would agree with most of what i would say about them. Even in describing them I cannot say with certainty who or what they unless i use terms we have agreed with as portraits of some one or something which always seems to fall short of an actual absolute definition.
Without relationship there is nothing. So for someone like myself I cannot say that I know who God is. When i call out no one answers, when i search i find nothing but images of something people call god. So all i have to relate to is an empty image which can't be a substitute for some one or something real.
The idea of a god or even a universal intelligence is very attractive but believing just for the sake of believing doesn't make sense to me. Even in the attempts to create relationship with belief in the past has not produced a better understanding or a relationship that was reciprocal. It more seemed like image worship then anything. | |
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| What is God
Posted: 1/24/2008 4:03:37 AM | God is the searching for God.
God is calling out to God.
God is the lust to know God.
God is the curiosity, the adventure, the not knowing what happens when we die.
God is the realization of the realization that we haven't had yet.
God is the opening of the opening. | |
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