To me
God as a person-like deity
Is problematic on so many levels
Among other things, this God appears to me so personally
reckless
blood-thirsty
petty
and wasteful
Reckless in creation
That evil
could fore-knowingly become even a possibility
Blood-thirsty in regret
That sin
should require more ransom than repair
Petty in love and justice
That
righteousness should have only select rites and beliefs
And shameless in waste
That
“providence” must end in the waste a hundred billion souls
So, rejecting this God squarely
I took personal faith to task
And sought to understand divinity elseways
In the end, the God I have come to find
Can be described as ultra-natural
rather than super-natural
This God holds ALL things inclusively, mind and matter,
good things and bad
And yet expresses ultimate goodness exactly in spite of
itself
Surviving all curse, surpassing all blessings
This God is more like a zen poet of justice
than a
crusading perpetrator of love
This God enlightens the world from within
rather than
languishing the world from without
Alas, I have found God all around me
Producing love in spite of Itself
How can I describe it to you?…
Today, I throw my hat in for pan-en-theism.
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