I had hoped to follow up on this, and then today I saw two posts in my feed reader and was struck by the contrast between them.
My reaction to Allan’s post was similar to my original reaction to Sabio’s earlier one. What makes a God who allegedly works wonders – whether casting out demons or supernaturally numbering the yards of football passes – a “bigger” God than one who made a world without demons and in which we are expected to learn, discover, and progress to a point where we begin to comprehend a universe far more majestic and more enormous than any Biblical author could have imagined? Is someone who micromanages superior to a leader who delegates? Is a tinkerer greater than an engineer who gets things working smoothly from the start? Is a three-tiered universe and its first cause greater than what we have to envisage in the universe we glimpse through the Hubble Telescope?
The language of “our God” (still) being “too small” has featured in several famous books. But what does it really mean?
What sort of God seems “bigger” or “smaller” to you, and why?