Hoewel je bij het godsbeeld van beide Joden kritische vragen kunt stellen, dat snap zelfs ik als niet-theoloog, vind ik het toch een prachtig verwoorde beschrijving in metaforen, van (een deel van) de betekenis, de verklaring, de schildering van (een deel van) de eigenschappen van God.
Onder dit voorbehoud dus, iets om in filosofische zin eens te proeven en over door te mijmeren. Reageren en tegenspreken mag ...
God is the Oneness
That spans the fathomless deeps of space
And the measureless eons of time,
Binding them together in act,
As we do in thought.
He is the sameness
In the elemental substance of stars and planets,
Of this earthly abode
and of all that it holds.
He is the unity
Of all that is,
The uniformity of all that moves,
The rhytm of all things
And the nature of their interaction.
God is the mystery of life,
Enkindling inert matter
With inner drive and purpose.
He is the creative flame
That transfigures lifeless substance,
Leaping into even higher realms of being,
Brightening into the radiant glow of feeling,
Till it turns into the white fire of thought.
God is in the faith
By which we overcome
The fear of loneliness, of helplessness,
Of failure and of death.
God is in the hope
Which, like a shaft of light
Cleaves the dark abysms
Of sin, of suffering, and of despair.
God is in the love
Which creates, protects, forgives.
He is the spirit
Which broods upon the chaos men have wrought
Disturbing its static wrongs,
And stirring into life
The formless beginnings
Of the new and better world.
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