Tim Suttle’s God

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My professional life exists at the intersection of creativity, God, and the church; which means my career has been made by trying to describe the indescribable. I work with words–whether with songs or prose–that are patently inadequate to the task I’ve been given.

When I was young, I thought my job was to help people see God. Now I think my job is to help people let go of the God they mistakenly think they see. I cannot tell you the number of times each week I say, “God’s not like that.”

So, here’s my best attempt at an apophatic theology of God. My attempt to acknowledge the reality that God can most accurately be described by saying what God is not…

God is not a thing in the universe. God is no-thing, but nothing exists apart from God, and nothing has its source outside of God.

God is not a being like other beings, not a thing among other things. Yet, God is not impersonal. God is not like me, though I am made in God’s image. God does not have a body, has no parts, is not the sum of any parts, and God’s being is indivisible. God is unbegotten, unseen, and indescribable. God is not a concept or first principle, but nothing can be explained or comprehended without reference to God. God cannot be understood, summed-up, categorized, or explained. Yet, God is undeniable and inseparable from the human experience.