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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Amazing, thanks for that huge, on-topic insight 
Anyway, I consider "God" to be a word which has been ascribed to the idea of a higher power in western culture. I don't think that "God" is necessarily *the* name. In fact, I'm not so sure that "God" has a name. Fact is, we, as humans, have some sort of inherent need to name things and, therefore, we find names for "God." In western culture, especially in Christianity, we call it "God" now, but other names have existed such as "Yahweh," etc - as noted above. I don't think that "Allah" is inherently wrong, no more than I think "Krishna" is inherently wrong. Since I don't believe that there is a single "correct" name for what I refer to as "God" - indeed, I'm not sure I believe there is any name at all - I think the whole debate over the issue is pretty pointless. It completely detracts from the real issue of who "God" is when we insist on applying human things such as name and language onto the topic. |
Good point SM70...Hard to put into words, but I was raised in a traditional Christian family, taught traditional Christian beliefs, yep, even went to traditional "Sunday School". I had good, loving, understanding parents. pastors, and Sunday School Teachers.
But . Far past childhood now, I realize that the mistake they all made was attempting to make me identify "God" as a person.
I was a pretty good kid, minded and respected my parents, and other adults, and I'm sure that in my mind "son while you're with Mr. Smith, you mind him", was very similiar in my juvenile mind to "Uno, you mind God". Heres where I bog down, I feel that it caused me to think of "God" as a being, rather than a force ...therefore when I gained adulthood I tended to think "nobodys perfect", rather than think that whatever created us did it by igniting a spark, and that the created in turn are bound to do as good a job as possible of maintaining and improving that creation. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail...but they are striving nonetheless. If it feels good to call it "God" then I'm sure nobody to dispute it, but to me that entails a far too singular description.