I’m kinda weird. I am a believing theist, that is, I believe there is a creator God who is the source of our reality, to include all that we experience in all places and at all times. Our reality, however, is not the only reality. Ours is not the God reality. We exist as if in a dark cave (Plato's cave), God is the only light source in our cave but that source or God is behind us, over our shoulder. We can only see or experience the reflections and shadows of that God reality.
Reflections
and shadows are lousy bed partners, we as humans desire certainty. Through the ages we have invented meaningful
stories that give us a feeling of certainty about God but the stories are also mere
shadows of that God reality. The lived-out temptation for us is to value the
stories instead of or more than the God reality. In my limited understanding, there
is no need to defend the stories of Hebrew, Christian or Greek traditions.
This much is
fairly simple. For sure there are more heady thinkers out there but I prefer my simple minded stuff. The more difficult question is, what in God’s name, is this God reality
up too? Are we being toyed with? Later.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
