Defining God

[nathan_slatter]

Perhaps it is as easy as believing that "He is". Perhaps the blasphemy is in our making God into our own image by proclaiming that we KNOW God, and while I do not believe that we can know God in that capacity (fully) we can know some things about him (his wishes, for instance). Here's the big question - if we can't know each other completely unless we are open to one another, and even then we maintain privacy from one another, can we completely know He who created us?

I can't help but think about my marriage. My wife and I know one another and the way we know each other isn't about lists and pretentious explorations of what to do's and what not to do's, rather our relationship is based on living with one another and learning from that life about one another. The purpose of our lives together isn't rules and regulations but about living - learning happens automatically and naturally. I've had friends in the past whose marriages were based on rules and regulations with pretentious, contrived, rituals - their marriages usually failed. But in these relationships, either one or both weren't committed to the other fully so there was no KNOWING of the other person - only a farce of love or marriage.

Perhaps the answer to defining God isn't about definition but about seeking, knocking, and asking. I saw a cartoon the other day that showed a guy sitting at a desk, books piled about him, with Jesus standing beside him. The guy at the desk looks to Jesus and said, "Can you come back in a few hours? I'm trying to get to know you better." Reminds me of myself. The need to know Jesus and trying to do so with books and commentaries alone.

[A.W. Bowman]

Originally Posted by nathan_slatter

Perhaps it is as easy as believing that "He is".

LOLOL Love ya Nate!

Sometimes definitions are not about words, but about relationship and how one expresses himself within the context of that relationship.

Now we are getting down to it!