God as a Postulate

‘God’ is a postulate

A postulate to the apparently unanswerable questions of life and existence

There can be no reasoning to make God stand before us

No science to factualize God

No logic to make God sound and proved

But still the great questions remain

So still our impulse to yet answer those questions

Our instincts seem to compel us yet to answer

Our intuition demands an object to our ultimate inquiries and ignorances

So if to yet postulate a God

In spite of a complete lack of any truly honest way to test

What this means is that faith is our only means of justifying

Any impulse to still give an answer

For faith itself does not and cannot give any answer

It merely justifies the grounds by which we find our impulse to give one

Again, faith is no method, no process, no scaffolding of steps to a product of belief

Faith is simply our instantaneous heart response
To whatever life and existence brings our way

Thus to have faith simply leads us to reflect again and again on the questions of life

Yet again, faith by itself, in no way can present an answer to those pesky questions

Hence we find ourselves in the position
Of wanting to nominate an answer, to force one

So to try to save ourselves from the ever nagging un-answers

At this point it must of course be admitted

That perhaps a little humility could go a long way toward this conundrum

In just accepting that some things just can’t be satisfactorily answered

But alas we are human, and this will simply just not do, it just won’t do

So ultimately what this means is

If to postulate a God

To satisfy the questions

Which rest on the ultimate concerns of our faith

Then the only conceivable way to seek to know such a God

Is within those confines

Those confines being made most explicit of course

By the ever so poignantly present nature of life and living itself

By which we acknowledge in fact the dynamics of faith itself

And come to find ourselves clearly and distinctly at yet a loss

This as opposed to the analytic and methodological ways

Which we use to verifiably substantiate everything else

By such as category or causation (respectively)

But if to take such a notion of God seriously upon its careful merits

It means but one thing:

That God cannot be mediated

Not by us, or by anything which we might know or hope to know

Think about it for a moment

If God does exist, it is not God which lacks transcendence

Rather it is our understanding which lacks transcending

So if God is not contingent upon our understanding

Then God simply cannot be mediated by us in any sense

Or by anything else that we might understand or know

So God cannot be mediated

Rather we recognize

That we ourselves are the ones that must be mediated

To each other, to our world, and even to ourselves

We require the mediation

If to claim any audacious right to give an Answer so intuitively

Or to posit an Absolute so ideally

Thus if God cannot be mediated

Then God is IMmediate

Closer than our own thoughts

Greater than any contingency or causal type of reference

And we,

Well we have to stop and think about it, ponder around

And struggle to say a word

Or dare to do a deed

Which might somehow try to represent

Yet such a profound immediacy IN God

That should hold all questions and all things

which otherwise must be

imperatively

without cohesive reality

So there it is

If there is God

Then ALL is IN-God

Or else all is utterly without God

For ultimately, there is no way for us

To cherry pick what is or isn’t transcendent

Or what should or shouldn’t

Set us at the brink of faith and wondering.