What We Believe About God

I am continually fascinated with the fact that when people have difficulty with the concept of God or claim they are agnostic or even atheistic, invariably they are reacting against a concept of God that I too reject. But evidently they have never been introduced to another more meaningful understanding --or they really don’t want to be bothered for which there are other deep reasons that don’t really have to do with God at all.

We will be exploring the "mystical" tradition about the nature of God that rejects the "supernatural theistic" concept which is untenable in our modern/post-modern world.

There is deep within the Christian tradition a concept of God that is wonderfully relevant to the present day and that is completely functional within the modern scientific world view. It can be called the “mystical” view...simply that God is truly present with us all the time and is even now urging us from within to accept the love. It is a view that says that we can have a direct personal relationship with God. That God is not some super-being somewhere that is completely in control of what happens physically,etc. God of the mystical tradition is the God who is the all-pervading Spirit, the unconditionally loving Spirit that is real, but which is different from anything we can comprehend, but still is as close as our breath to our lives.

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