Hi there,
So look, I am not sure if this will affect your arguments in any way and I certainly am not welcoming people who just want to negate God, for the sake of it, but I wanted to point out that "God" is not God, but Wisdom. What do I mean by this? I mean that saying "God is God" is not something God says, true enough He called Himself "I am that I am" for the sake of the Jewish people, but if you understand what I am saying, that was His way of saying "this exodus is wise". Why? Because "God" is just a title, a placeholder.
The thing is that God is no respecter of persons (NT), so when you come to the conclusion that you know who or what God is because of the title "God" you are not actually in a dialogue with God at all, you are discussing Wisdom, as in, you are discussing, is it "wise" to give a name to a supreme deity, who may or may not even be interested in the title. That really is my point, God is not necessarily interested in the title "God" at all, that is man's thinking. Man thinks "Aha, I have this name for God, now if I can just find Him, He will have to own up to it", as if you can "catch" God sinning or something like that. But that's not how it works.
"God" is a key, a door-opener, a switch starter, for thoughts about what God could possibly be like, what He could possibly be capable of. It is meant to stir thoughts, emotions, into action, around possibility and the meaning of existence, questions which you would ask God, if He did indeed answer. And that's the thing, you don't even really know if He will answer, if indeed any time you are talking to Him its not just some sort of cosmic feedback of the law of the conservation of energy, but at the same time its self-fulfilling, drawing you to believe more, both because you've believed already and because you don't know if believing a little more will eventuate into something fantastic.
It's a journey...
...but not one that hinges on "God".
So look, I am not sure if this will affect your arguments in any way and I certainly am not welcoming people who just want to negate God, for the sake of it, but I wanted to point out that "God" is not God, but Wisdom. What do I mean by this? I mean that saying "God is God" is not something God says, true enough He called Himself "I am that I am" for the sake of the Jewish people, but if you understand what I am saying, that was His way of saying "this exodus is wise". Why? Because "God" is just a title, a placeholder.
The thing is that God is no respecter of persons (NT), so when you come to the conclusion that you know who or what God is because of the title "God" you are not actually in a dialogue with God at all, you are discussing Wisdom, as in, you are discussing, is it "wise" to give a name to a supreme deity, who may or may not even be interested in the title. That really is my point, God is not necessarily interested in the title "God" at all, that is man's thinking. Man thinks "Aha, I have this name for God, now if I can just find Him, He will have to own up to it", as if you can "catch" God sinning or something like that. But that's not how it works.
"God" is a key, a door-opener, a switch starter, for thoughts about what God could possibly be like, what He could possibly be capable of. It is meant to stir thoughts, emotions, into action, around possibility and the meaning of existence, questions which you would ask God, if He did indeed answer. And that's the thing, you don't even really know if He will answer, if indeed any time you are talking to Him its not just some sort of cosmic feedback of the law of the conservation of energy, but at the same time its self-fulfilling, drawing you to believe more, both because you've believed already and because you don't know if believing a little more will eventuate into something fantastic.
It's a journey...
...but not one that hinges on "God".
Go figure
