CAROL SAID SHE MADE A COMMENT BUT I CANNOT FIND IT IN FACT I CANNOT FIND THE BLOG OF THAT NAME BUT I DO REMEMBER HAVING THAT IDEA AND NOT GOING ANYWHERE WITH IT.
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1 comment:
Just so Carol - or anybody else - has something to start with.)
In my view, God is not a personality, God doesn't do anything, anymore than a circle or a photograph or a mathmatical formula do anything. God is the perfect essence of the mystery of the universe -- approachable, as Jesus taught, by the individual, humble person. But God and the God shape is totally divorced from the Jewish rabbi, the Catholic pope, the Anglican Archbishop, and the Muslim imam, etc. Overwhelmingly, church hierarchy is the domain of man, not of God. (Having said that, many religious texts and authorities, such as many of the saying of Jesus, point in the right direction, but the implication of what these insights mean have to be ignored by the religion as a social/commerical organization. When Ranu's mother died there were prayers every night for a week; one the prayers described a person approaching an altar with flowers to place them on the altar as an offering but asks himself, "how can I put God upon God?", which, I think, is true -- and not just in the "God is everywhere idea on monothesim, which is true enough, but there is no separation between God and all else - there can't be -- but the link is so perfectly obscure that we can never understand it.)
God is the shape of the the core of the unknown universe, which shimmers and shakes and moves as we contemplate it and our relationship to it.
God doesn't do anything: he/she/it is not at the keyboard of a giant computer setting the weather for tomorrow, determining if little Jane Doe will survive her operation tomorrow, or ruefully contemplating the huge pile of prayer requests in his/her inbox that he will have to consider.
The shape of God is not a thing, and the God thing itself is beyond understanding. Therefore, the concept of perfect or not doesn't come into it.
Love,
Rick
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