In the Image of God No one can describe the ultimate. We lack words for that experience of eternity, vastness, that state and place and existence that is both embodied and a disembodied. Whatever this essence is that we think of as the divine, it exists beyond seeing and hearing. It is like a knowing without thought. In other words, God is awesome, magnificent, and terrifying, and it is utterly foreign. No account of this holy being, whether whispered in private conversations or written down in books, comes close to revealing its essence. For this endeavor, language is futile. So is painting, music, dance, and even fairy tale. Not that…
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Shattering Images of God
The First Cause It may be an illusion, this world we inhabit: a virtual reality machine, a dream, a joke. But if so, who’s running it all? If it’s all smoke and mirrors, surely something is tending the fire, polishing the glass? Perhaps the Big Bang is truth, and a singularity randomly popped into existence, just as quanta wink in and out, without someone or something controlling it. Alternately, quantum fluctuations may have created a series of Big Bounces, resulting in one multiple universes. Some people imagine there was no beginning, that space always existed. When conditions were right, time manifested, and the universe-building began. No god required. It’s hard…