prayer from the cell: how to insult God

That’ll do it! Or at least that statement I’ve found will certainly insult “God’s people”, of which if you have that view (which I agree with) you are not apparently part of.

I remember coming to my former pastor and questioning Him about God..who or what He is. I told him that through meditation, reflection and study I just had the impression that we projected human qualities onto Him. He told me that that reasoning was rejecting Jesus, and thus, rejecting God entirely. A sinful way of thinking that would ultimately lead to my faith’s ruin. He also accused me of being a pantheist.

I have to confess that a couple of years later, I have found myself free of the label Christian. So, that “line of reasoning” did have a dramatic effect in the course of my spiritual journey. But I shed no tears for the loss of the dogma which I felt bound me to my pursuit of truth in the past. Instead, I feel an incredible freedom to move forward.

Sorry for the length of this!

You set up a distinction that is not necessary to make. We certainly cannot say everything about God with him being other than ourselves. But this does not mean that we can also know him in human terms, especially since he deigned to come as a human being. You can have both the hidden and the revealed God. It is exactly the desire to have God in your own image, way, feeling, imagination, that the revealed God is rejected. It’s all backwards.