I’m writing this book because what I’m about to share has helped me and when you have this kind of information that can help why hold onto to it share it. It has helped me and I Know it will help you. I have noticed a pattern from my own experience as a pastors son and now a former pastor and theologian and reading and hearing stories about how the divine has intervened in people’s lives thereby breaking current thinking doubting the efficacy of prayer and reality of Divine Intervention. Preface: Because I’m living and working in a judeo Christian milieu this article will draw on those experiences and much of those stories but is not limited by them as I fully appreciate and accept all religious and spiritual and personal reflections and positions about god as all are working out their own salvation but we may find instances of similarities and moments of commonality especially when we speak of prayer and divine intervention. But my experience is Christian and I relate to god and make sense and have chosen to use a Christian color not over any other. If God is or the divine is the ultimate of all things
If god is greater than that which nothing greater can be conceived or or imagined.
If god is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient; how is it … that … we can put limits on him/her…. so that, we can “fix God”, in a mould that confines him/her to our time, space or quantum physics. If God is unlimited why do we limit him to just one thing! (That is if we can limit him. Because we are limited, we are creatures, but we say that God is not). In fact God is beyond the word God. God is just human semantics utilized to make sense of the divine!
So how is it, that we can just see god as Christians and not anything else?
How is it that god is just Hindu or Muslim. In fact, if god is beyond and transcends all it would seem as if he is that and more. Or that is a cultural expression of the way in which the divine reveals himself at some point in time to a particular set of people who have utilized their own context experience and culture to interpret and represent that (revelation of that ) god either as Hindu Muslim Christian or whatever the culture or the context is
So that when we see god, god is … Christian because those who have served to understand god within a particular culture based on his revelation of himself to them have chosen to use Christian lens
But why then say Your is exceptional and the only way that leads to the divine. Why universalize your idea of God as the only ideal expression of the God as if attain a position of privilege!