Tuesday
26Sep2006
GOD
Of course God is! No, God is not!
We can't untie this Gordian knot.
We probe, we pull, we twist, we turn
Thus live our lives and all we learn
There is no way to see God's face.
We only need our faith to place
In what it seems we are to be,
Unique realized capacity.
If we in doctrine are entwined
The only fact that we will find,
God is not in religious 'thread'.
When wound up in it, God is dead.
If God there is, then God will be
Within, by being, naturally.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 11:10PM
Reader Comments (8)
wow thats butiful!!
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Thanks! Doug.E.Barr
that was nice you now becauseI thik that is true and because I love Jesus
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That is nice. Doug.E.Barr
I like the image of "gordian knot". If god exists, he is not found in the religions of old but only within-- or in a living person.
I think it is time for us to cut the gordian knot, but only a great conquerer can do that!
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Thanks for your thoughts. I am not sure about needing to cut the knot though. I am inclined to think it has been hacked to pieces; and we are living with the consequences. If anything I think we should retie the knot and unite humanity around uncertainty and wonder. Doug.E.Barr
we ought 2 believe cause we are living proof thanks ::::
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We are dying proof of self-destruction so I am not sure how you can believe "we are living proof" of God. Doug.E.Barr
YOU ARE A VERY CONFUSED PERSON. GOD DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS. AND THEN HE WAS RESSURECTED. NO HE IS NOT DEAD. HE IS VERY MUCH ALIVE. HE IS IN EVERYTHING ON THIS EARTH WHETHER IT BE IN THE FLOWERS OR THE TREES. HE'S EVEN IN YOU AND ME. GOD IS EVERY WHERE. EVERY WHERE YOU LOOK AND EVERY WHERE YOU GO.
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This is one of 16 comments Crystal left. If you are interested in my general response to all of them you can read it here. Doug.E.Barr
With such an interest in philosophy and theological writing surrounding the meaning of life, I am sure you are familiar with C.S. Lewis's theological writings. If not I would highly recommend the read. Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, A Grief Observed and many more.
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I appreciate you initiating a chat. I am aware of C.S. Lewis and I know anyone who has read and recommends his writings is a highly educated Christian. However, I won't be following your recommendations because my interest in "philosophy and theological writings" ended 40 years ago.
I inherited Christianity but rather than focusing on what I was being taught when I was in my early teens, I began to wonder why there were so many varieties of Christianity evident in the city of 30,000 where I grew up. That city was in the middle of Ontario, Canada so except for knowing Jesus began as the king of the Jews, it was only when I took a comparative religion course in university that I began to wonder why there were at least three other major religions and a number of significant 'offspring' that also tried to explain life.
At the same time, I was introduced to the writings of several theologians and several hundred philosophers. The theologians included my uncle, Alvin C. Porteous who wrote "Prophetic Voices in Contemporary Theology" in which he tried to harmonize the discordant voices of Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Niebuhr, and Bultmann. The philosophers were all those contained in Fredrick Copleston's 9 volume history of philosophy. When I finished reading this mountain of indisputable evidence I was compelled to conclude religious/philosophical writings rather than explain life only contribute to mass confusion. So I quit compiling evidence before I got to C.S. Lewis.
Instead I looked elsewhere for the explanation of life. Anyone with a mind open to the explanation can find the shortest version in the subtitle of my website. For a longer version there is "Life: a reaction to the void". It requires about 10 minutes to read the explanation in "The Last Why: the poem" or if rhyming couplets are a problem it can be read in "The Last Why: the precis". "I highly…recommend the read." Doug.E.Barr
thats butiful!!
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Thanks. Doug.E.Barr
this poem is really great....