What can we know (or think we know) about the nature of God? A correlative question would necessarily be (in light of my foregoing discussion) Can we accept the following hypothesis: "God is immutable, human comprehension of the nature of God is not"?This is how I ended my last post over 2 weeks ago. I can't say I've given it a lot of thought in that time. I had hoped for some comment, but none was forthcoming. So, I'll answer my second question. Yes, I accept the hypothesis that God does not change, but human comprehension of the nature of God does, indeed, change.
Once we looked around, and we connected with a divine reality, we figured there must be many of them to explain the forces about us....
Then we began to allow that understanding to coalesce into the understanding that there was but one divine reality that explained all of them... But we weren't yet ready to comprehend our own natures sufficiently, nor were we able to fathom something that was not essentially a grander us, namely we anthropomorphized our understanding of God... and the concept of the old man with flowing robes and a beard was born!
And on this old man, we placed our own faults and failings, while trying to declare him to be without faults and failings... so we contrived this concept of the angry God, wreaking vengeance and violence on the world on our behalf.
Our comprehension of the Divine paradigm changed, mutated to accept oneness. In time, some came to see that the divine paradigm was changing once again... this time to embrace a loving Divinity. And this space and my time are too finite to delve into the entire evolution of humanity's understanding of the Divine.
So, what can we know (or think we know) of the nature of God?
I'll throw out one or two things that I am comfortable in saying I know.
First, I'm comfortable with the notion/understanding that the Divine is ultimately responsible for the coming in to being of all creation... hence I'm comfortable in saying that this Divine Other CREATED all things. The method, however, of this creation is at this time incomprehensible.
Second, I'm comfortable with the notion that God is limited by God's own Will. In other words, while God is not limited by external laws of nature or other forces imposed upon the Divine, God has chosen to impose upon God's self, limitations.
So, thirdly, I can say I'm comfortable with the concept that God is Love, and the source of all Love.
Now, it's your turn. Can you add to this list?
