Friday, March 12, 2010

God is Undefineable

It always strikes me as funny when people say, "God said, God thinks or God believes this or that." I want to say, "How do you know?"

For me, we are a small part of the Greater whole. Even though we are created from the Essence of that which created, can one person, or one faith really know what God says, thinks and believes? Or do we project our thoughts and beliefs onto our idea of God? This is one of the age old questions people have asked since the beginning of time.

In the differing faith traditions it is clear that God is beyond comprehension.

I love the writing of Mohammad found in the Kor'an. "If all the trees that are upon the earth were to become pens, and if God should after that swell the sea into seven seas of ink, His words would not be exhausted; of a truth God is Mighty, Wise" (31:27). For me, this means God is so vast, there is not enough ink to write or describe all of the Wisdom of God. This might explain the plethora of books, texts, and documents written about people's experience of God. There are as many experiences of God as there are creations, ever unfolding, evolving and expanding.

In Christianity, Romans 11:33 (KJV), it states, "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"

So for me, when people say, God said, God believes, or God thinks so and so, I just smile and realize there is just one more realization to go into the vastness of an incomprehensible Idea.

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