From a shared awareness of the existence of a source of creation, all of our traditions teach the virtues of reverence toward, and humility from the knowledge of, that reality--even if we often fail to behave in line with those beliefs.
If we see God as the ground of our being (instead of a supernatural being as discussed in my earlier post Reimagining God), then Jesus can be viewed as a unique (but human) man in whom this ground was not a distant source of existence buried under layers of ego, but was the very center of his being.
And because of that fact, we will always be a source of insight into their existence.
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Process theologians, beginning with Alfred North Whitehead, write of God as that creative power within the universe, a power that is both the source of existence and its boundary as well.
I read Genesis, not as a scientific or history textbook on how the universe came to be, but as a mythological interpretation of God as this creative source of existence.
Instead of hiding away in basements like hunted animals, wrapped in rags, sick and hungry, their very existence a source of anxiety and a deadly threat to their loved ones.... Just imagine — daylight, sunshine, people everywhere and an unseen, unheard of, legendary luxury in the officer's hand — cake!
semicristata" has been a source of some skepticism since its existence was first postulated by Stanley Walker in the late 1950s [ 13, 22].
In this sense, the active intellect is allowed to play a shared role in God's creative, sustaining role as source of existence (in whatever way that process is ultimately understood).
I have come to understand God, not as a transcendent Zeus-like figure, but instead as the infinite creative source of existence.
