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To define or not to define God; that is the question.

The idea of defining God may sound absurd to some people, especially mystics, who are more concerned with experiencing God. It is actually much easier to experience God than it is to define God. Because you can spend a lifetime researching and studying and reasoning in your mind the concept of what God is, which is useless intellectual gymnastics. It is much simpler and easier to go into your heart and learn to develop an intimacy with God, and in this way God will be revealed to you a little bit at a time.

Most fundamental literalists imagine it may be easy to define God, because they have such a limited concept of what God is, which means they have not experienced this Infinite Reality. They perceive God as some Zeus-like male superhuman being. He has selected a chosen few, but the question is which few has He actually chosen? Many believe he has selected only one religion or one church, and everyone hopes they are a part of it, and if they happen to be -by a streak of bad luck- in the wrong one, the theory is they go to hell, instead of heaven. And you only get one chance, or one lifetime "to get right." What a strange God if He indeed set up such a convoluted system. People of an Eastern mindset believe you have many lifetimes to find God, or to reach enlightenment and then experience God. According to this philosophy yet get many chances to get it right, not just one, in one measly lifetime.

According to some people, it seems as if God's hands are tied and that He has no real power, considering everything is going wrong in the world, and apparently people's prayers are not being answered the could turn this world into a peaceful, loving, perfect world. Things don't go our way, so we blame it on God. But did we ever ask, what is God's way? Our problem is trying to do it our way instead of God's way. But we have to find out what that is. Unfortunately, we are too busy insisting that God should do things our way, although that may interfere with other people's agendas - and that is not according to God's plan.

You see, there's a little thing called "free will," for each person has the freedom to exercise his will as he sees fit. But if he violates another person, he will suffer the consequences, according to the law of karma, which is exactly the same thing as Jesus' axiom, "As you sow, so shall you reap." However, if God violated our free will, then He would be taking away our freedom, our freedom to experience

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