Tell Me Some Things About God
We spent the latter part of Wednesday's class beginning to offer our conceptions and thoughts about God:
--Beyond our full knowledge
--"Our refuge and our strength" (referencing Psalm 46)
--Envision God as tall, ranging above, face unseeable
--Different things at different times
--Creator of everything (thus can be expressed in different ways and be different things)
--Gets along with everyone and everything
--"Leads you but you can never find Him" (reference to Psalm 23)
--"Presence"
--"Peaceful"
--God is working: in school, through people, doing great things
Even this short list contains some remarkable avenues for further exploration and reflection.
We will continue to connect them to the Bible and to the life of Jesus.
What would you like to add?
--Beyond our full knowledge
--"Our refuge and our strength" (referencing Psalm 46)
--Envision God as tall, ranging above, face unseeable
--Different things at different times
--Creator of everything (thus can be expressed in different ways and be different things)
--Gets along with everyone and everything
--"Leads you but you can never find Him" (reference to Psalm 23)
--"Presence"
--"Peaceful"
--God is working: in school, through people, doing great things
Even this short list contains some remarkable avenues for further exploration and reflection.
We will continue to connect them to the Bible and to the life of Jesus.
What would you like to add?
Kaylee and I were talking about God. She thinks of him as a leader, father, saint, and "guy in the sky"
ReplyDeleteThat's great! Perhaps there will be opportunity is Sunday School to share even more.
ReplyDeleteThis is kinda off topic, but me and my friend are FaceTiming, and we started talking about our religion and what we believe in. We got to the point where we wondered what “nothing” looked like. God created everything, but what was there before “everything”? It can’t be a color like white or black, because is nothing there to create the pigment. And it can’t be space, because what created space?
ReplyDeleteNothing could be there, because it is nothing, but what is nothing?
-Lizzie
Some really interesting questions, Lizzie! Not sure we can answer them fully, since Genesis gives us poetry rather than science. But let's consider the depth of meaning in the first of the creation stories. What becomes the earth is at first a "formless void," an emptiness. From this God creatively brings shape and form and substance--all of it life-giving! God brings light through the darkness, and it is good. The references to the deep and the waters are probably riffs off ancient creation myths from other cultures.
DeleteGod eventually creates humanity in the midst of the larger marvel of creation--and human beings carry the "image" of God--we reflect and give substance to God's imagination!
I think the story recognizes God as The Source--God's power is ever-gracious; God's authority is the "authoring" of life. The text is encouraging and life-giving for anyone experiencing emptiness , chaos, lack of meaning; living in the "widerness." God is faithful and offers newness of life!