January 18, 2017
By Max
B. Frederick, AnOldScientist
“For [as] the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and
my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Yĕhovah elohiym , ca. 700-680 BC,
Isaiah 55:9 (KJV)
When we quit pretending to know more about God than God himself reveals to us, suddenly reality and the ancient scriptures seem to have a lot in common.
When we pretend to know more about God than we do, then we get into trouble.
A popular line of human logic goes something like this. If God is perfect, then the interpretation of his word will be perfect. But, in reality we see it is not perfect. Why is the interpretation of the bible not perfect? Why do we have so many differing denominational explanations of what the bible really says? Some would say, “No real God would allow His word to be so denominationalized,” so this proves that such a God does not really exist. The alternative is, God is only a product of human imagination.
Could it be that we have wrongly defined God out of existence?
If, in fact, the God of the bible does exist, He is not following our rules constraining Him. Here is the first principle of the existence of God. If God is the invention of man then, in reality, there is no real God. But if God really exists, He cannot be the invention of man.
Is there any such thing as a concept of God that is in accord with both the bible and reality?
When you
look at the technical writings about close encounters with the
physical God of the bible, there is a lot of information about just
what God really is.
Explore the
list of technical features of God as revealed in these close
encounters.
Job’s
Whirlwind
Moses’
Burning Bush
Moses
on
Elijah’s
Still
Small Voice
Elijah’s
Chariot
and horses of fire
Paul’s
Bright Light on the Road to
John’s
Description of the Throne Room
Exploring
that list reveals an existence (the God of the Bible) that has more
in common with the original technical meanings of the words,
Yĕhovah elohiym, the words the ancient scripture
of the bible uses to name that existence, than it has in common the
words LORD God into which they are translated, or
with any popular concept of the God of the bible.
But then,
that brings us to the original question.
Assuming
God is a reality, what is God?
When we quit pretending to know more about God than God himself reveals to us, suddenly reality and the ancient scriptures seem to have a lot in common.
Unfinished
Writings of Max B. Frederick on the Mystery of the Physical Features
of God:
Close Physical Encounters with the Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Life Form.doc
Comparing the Biblical Accounts of the Origins to.doc
Description of God as Found in the Scripture of the Bible.doc
Faith. Evidence. and the Very Nature of God Rev 2.doc
In The Image of God 2011 06 30.doc
Law of Conservation of Energy.doc
Physical Attributes of Resurrected Life.doc
Physical Sightings of the Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Life Form.doc
Science and the Bible Discussion Group Meeting October 21 2010.doc
Technical Words Describing God.doc
The God of Religion vs The God of the Bible Rev 1.doc
The God of the bible is the one and only true and living God.doc