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Mibber Who?

WITH THE MYRIAD INTERPRETATIONS of what and who God is for believers, one must examine the fundamental questions that might allow us to make sense of Christian Doctrine.

Imagine someone says, "Mibber is loving and wise. Mibber is the essence of all matter and energy. Mibber has no limits. Mibber is all powerful."

When hearing statements such as these, it is not our first inclination to ask "What does that mean, in relation to this "Mibber"? or "How is it that Mibber can be all these things?" your first question is naturally, "What is Mibber?"

First, we must define an object before we can even begin to examine the other questions that arise once we understand the essential nature of that object. The same is true, or at least should be true, of the Christian God. I find it aggravatingly fascinating how Christians make announcements and declara-tions about what God feels, thinks, does, and intends...but have no explanation for the nature of God. What is God? Who is God? How do they know this information?

In one breath, they say that God is mysterious and unknowable and in the other, they say that God is loving, or God is wise, or all-powerful. How can they know any of this if they don't even understand God and have never met him/her/it in person?

No one has ever had a real conversation with God. No, not even Neale Donald Walsch. Claims to the contrary have been grossly exaggerated. Claimants have only had mental processes which they ascribe to an encounter with this invisible entity. One could just as easily-and with as much credibility-say that one has had a conversation with a tree, or a dog, or Elvis. The difference with the latter is of course that we do have actual evidence of the tree, the dog and Elvis.

But again, there is this pervasive, almost cellular habituation attached to the God-paradigm. As a species, humans have had belief in supernatural beings as part of the fiber of everyday reality. Prevalence doesn't, however, make it real.

Further, why would a person chose to believe in something impossible? If something is black, it cannot also be white. If something is square, it cannot be circular. This is akin to the statements most Christians make about God, the essence of which is, "God remains dry when immersed in water." On the face of that, unless it is trickery, this is contradiction at best, and deceit at worst.
The very first explanation that springs to the lips of the devout is some variation of "God moves in mysterious ways." I'll say! Any being who can exist but be invisible, embody the essence of love, yet be angry and cruel, and analogically remain dry while immersed in water, is certainly beyond comprehen-sion and so advanced as to be worthy of our attention. Except for one thing: there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's almost certainly not true.

And since no one can prove the existence of this god, we are left only with a choice to believe in something not only unproven and improvable, but in something that is illogical and fraught with contradiction at every turn.

Pardon me while I lean toward the more rational approach.

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