Good one, Neal. It makes me wonder, however, how you feel about “the thirteen attributes of God,” and the other Torah-given aspects of divine nature that are presented as a given therein and in other Jewish texts. Do you know that God is One? Do you know that God IS? Are you making distinctions between what you know and what you believe? If so, what do you BELIEVE about God? As you can see, your “comment” inspires many good questions!
I wonder about those things too. 😉 Seems to me that I know (or feel I know) a bit about what some traditions & individuals have said about God in the past (I particularly like Rabbi Jack Gabriel’s appellation “God As Context,” which term he would merrily sprinkle throughout his blessings) and am learning more about what Judaism specifically has to say in that regard (it’s still my favorite metaphor, and one which I’m finally beginning to glimpse well enough to get some of the better jokes; i.e., appreciate it as a complex music instead of simply an intellectual puzzle or normative principle). But that’s still only self-consistent consensualism. None of it applies where God “is.” Nothing said applies at all. And by the time you say it, God’s already moved on.
Good one, Neal. It makes me wonder, however, how you feel about “the thirteen attributes of God,” and the other Torah-given aspects of divine nature that are presented as a given therein and in other Jewish texts. Do you know that God is One? Do you know that God IS? Are you making distinctions between what you know and what you believe? If so, what do you BELIEVE about God? As you can see, your “comment” inspires many good questions!
I wonder about those things too. 😉 Seems to me that I know (or feel I know) a bit about what some traditions & individuals have said about God in the past (I particularly like Rabbi Jack Gabriel’s appellation “God As Context,” which term he would merrily sprinkle throughout his blessings) and am learning more about what Judaism specifically has to say in that regard (it’s still my favorite metaphor, and one which I’m finally beginning to glimpse well enough to get some of the better jokes; i.e., appreciate it as a complex music instead of simply an intellectual puzzle or normative principle). But that’s still only self-consistent consensualism. None of it applies where God “is.” Nothing said applies at all. And by the time you say it, God’s already moved on.