Who is
God?
There are many stories about God.
Some of them seem to contradict each other.
Even within the same religion, organized around the same Holy Scriptures, people find reason to argue.
But if you feel and channel the Holy Spirit of God—realized in yourself—through your words and actions—you will be able to communicate so well, it will be as if you are the master of tongues—
Able to speak to everyone—even strangers—in terms they can understand. (Acts 2:4)
It is not the Truth of God which is complex.
The Truth of God is Love and Righteousness!
It is we human beings who are complex—almost limitless in our diversity—and our capacity to find fault with one another.
We argue over our own human understandings, our own human words.
Through the Cage of our Words, we imprison God—telling Him Who to Be!
We only accept the Revelations of God that we choose—blind to all the rest!
Meanwhile, God tries His best to inspire all His People through the different words that we, inspired by God but still ignorant of His Greater Glory, have made.
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Much of the Bible does not claim to be the Words that issued from God's mouth directly, but stories, poetry, history, and philosophical discourses—all amidst the prophesies uttered in human words by human men and women.
All of them inspired by God, certainly.
But limited by the impediments of the human beings themselves, struggling to phrase His prophesy.
Even the Holy Quran, which tradition tells us was a direct locution of God, came through the translation of the Angel Gabriel, which was translated then by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to his wife Aisha, who then wrote it down as the First Holy Quran.
The Word of God surely!
But one that went through three “translations” (Gabriel's, Muhammad's, and Aisha's) before it was then translated from Arabic to all the languages of humankind.
Thus, even the Words of Christ Jesus, Who many in our world feel embodied God, and spoke for God, only came to us through the scribing of human beings, the Gospel Writers and the Revelator.
And these have been translated from those Writers' original tongues more than several times before they reached our eyes and ears.
God is looking out at us from this Cage of Words we've put Him in.
The Words mean nothing if they do not bring you to the God behind them.
The time has come to set Him and all the rest of us free.
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So, Who is God?
What can we be certain of, with all these stories about Him?
Our understanding of Him came from His first worshipers, the Hebrew People.
They were given a Law by Him—a Law which many devoted people still struggle to keep to this Day.
This understanding of God in many people's minds became a God of Mercy.
Yet, there was still the Old God of Law—a God of Wrath—a God insisting on Righteousness.
But there was this New God of Jesus, Whom He called “Abba”—a baby's word for Father—akin to the English word “Daddy.”
How could the God Who drowned Pharaoh's armies in the Red Sea—the God Who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—be a “Daddy”?!
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Clearly, there are two Versions of God that we have today:
The Old God of the Law—Who forbids not just adultery, fornication, and homosexuality—but eating shellfish (Lev. 11:12), doing any labor whatsoever on the Sabbath on pain of being stoned to death (Num. 15:32-36), or wearing any clothing mixing wool and linen. (Deut. 22:11)
Jesus came to emancipate us from this Law! (Rom. 8:2, Gal. 5:14)
He was the New Law—the New Sign of the Covenant! (Jn 1:14)
Belief in Him, and following after His path to Righteousness, replaces adherence to the more than six hundred commandments of the Law.
His Gospel of Forgiveness had but two commandments:
Love God, with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength—
And love your neighbor as yourself. (Mt. 22:35-40, Mk. 12:30-31, Rom. 13:9)
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Love, and forgiveness by Jesus of other people's failings, is most of the Story of the Gospels.
He cast out devils. (Mt. 8:16, Mk. 1:34, 1: 39, 16:9, Lk. 4:35, 8:29)
He saved a woman caught in adultery from stoning. (Jn 8:1-11)
And He Himself broke the Law of the Sabbath often, healing people and casting out devils. (Lk 13:10-17, Mk. 3:1-6, Mt. 12:2, Jn. 9:16)
The Religious Authorities of Jesus' time condemned Him for breaking such Laws, in order to heal people physically, mentally, and spiritually. (Mk. 3:4, Lk. 6:7)
They served the Old God of the Law.
Many people still strive to live according to the Old Law, to this Day.
They condemn homosexuality, fornication, adultery—and stand divided from those who live these lifestyles.
Many people are begging for forgiveness and acceptance in our Day.
Others fear for the world today, which seems so against the Law of God.
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But God does not want the spirit of contention and discord amongst His People!
You can find this in the Old Testament. (Prov. 6:19)
In the New Testament. (Rom. 16;17)
And in the Holy Quran. (Sura 5:48)
All religions that are of God preach peace.
But—we are a world at war!
If God is to be freed from out own prejudices—the Cage we make of His Word round ourselves—and allowed to shine out of each of us into the world!
He must inspire us through, and despite, our different Stories of Him.
If we cannot determine Which of Our Holy Books is right—
Then we must read them ALL!
Or, invite those who love God through other Holy Scriptures than we have bring their wisdoms to us.
For all the Scriptures of humanity are Holy. (2 Tim. 3:16)
But the Scriptures are not meant to divide us. (Titus 3:9)
So, how can we be sure what we believe about God is Right?
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We must give ourselves over to His Holy Spirit, and let His Inspiration fill us—each of us called to the Spirit of Prophesy! (2 Peter 1:20-21)
Then New Scriptures, exploring and connecting the Old, and reflecting personal, divine revelations each human being is capable of and called to, must be written and shared in Our Day!
With our new words, our own part in the Continuing Revelation of God, we can help God free Himself from the Cage of Words our own human frailties have made of all our Holy Scripture.
By letting Him speak through each of us, now.
We exercise our right and duty to contemplate further the mysteries of God and the need for us to love one another.
“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Mt 18:18)
We—each of us—have authority over how we see God, and how God inspires us.
Only we can tell if God is with us—by feeling Him in our lives—
What we say and believe must first of all be true for each of us—if for no one else!
The more channels we get in a cable-tv package, the more chances we'll see an inspiring show.
The more of God's “channels” (the more of His Holy Scriptures) we have access to, the better chance we will have of really seeing God.
It is for us to read, and for us to write.
Then we, who have so long bound God in our Words, can now loose Him, set Him free!
Free, finally, to be Himself.