God is beyond us. The most anyone can say is that they know the extent of the God they have worked to understand through prayer, effort, study and life experience. In this way each of us carries a piece of God to rely on. The complete understanding of God can only happen beyond human life.
The search for God by humans has resulted, like all human endeavors, in a rich and diverse collection of God images. At this point in human history will still live with the idea of a whole bunch of gods fighting it out in heaven for supremacy. So that’s how we let it play out on earth.
Why don’t we ask ourselves what all these gods might have in common? What does the god beyond all our humanly created gods want for us? Expect of us? Why would god not embrace the richness, beauty and strangeness of all human creation? What could we possibly lose by loving god through all the God personas we have created.
No God who loves humanity should be the source of hate and prejudice. Every God should calm the yearning that calls us to stretch our humanness beyond itself to meeting with God. Every culture’s authentic search for god has wisdom for us.
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