Category Archives: God

It must be true that God exists Part 3: God is God, but as we are persons, we can only understand God as a person All this is assured in the sense that there is no doubt about it. This experience exists and is testified to by countless millions of people. A final observation onContinue reading “It must be true that God exists. Part 3”

It must be true that God exists Part 2: It’s all about the quality of the experience Well, if we put to one side for the moment the whole concept of God, as interesting but unproven (despite the assumptions that I made as a teenager) what firm evidence do we have? Well, what we’re ableContinue reading “It must be true that God exists. Part 2”

(A theological reflection in 5 parts) It must be true that God exists Part 1: I was told I could meet God and I did, so God must exist When I was a boy I was told that God exists. I had no reason to reject this: they were adults and I was only aContinue reading “It must be true that God exists. Part 1”

Why God needs to be God It is vital that God exists, otherwise, I am God, and the love that I claim God has for me, and I – to lesser extent – have for him is really just me loving myself. Let’s consider why this is so. I believe devoutly and devotedly in God.Continue reading “Why God needs to be God“

That black cat Part 4: Accomplished – reunited at last! However, thinking for a moment, the illustration was always ridiculous because haven’t we all accepted that God is nothing like a cat. Some of the ancient Greek images suggest that they may have thought of the gods in concrete terms – that Zeus, for example,Continue reading “That black cat. Part 4”

That black cat Part 3: Deceitful – say what you mean But this relies on the cat being there, and we are still confronting the punch line of the anecdote that “the cat isn’t even there”. So, is this an accurate illustration? Of course, the honest answer is: “We don’t know!”. Some people say they’veContinue reading “That black cat. Part 3”

That black cat Part 2: Tragic – despair, for all is emptiness However, we must return to the punch line: “the cat isn’t even there”. If this is true, then it is an utterly heart-rending condemnation of humanity’s wasted efforts in a futile attempt to find what is not there. If we just take thisContinue reading “That black cat. Part 2”

That black cat (A theological reflection on the search for God, in 4 parts) That black cat Part 1: Comic – difficult but worth having a go There is an old saying – relatively amusing – that searching for God is like a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat –Continue reading “That black cat. Part 1”

Part 2: We are searching for someone who has already found us So, there is nothing there really? Just darkness? No, this is to misunderstand completely. Think of a person trapped in a dark prison cell in solitary confinement. There is no contact with any other living person for years on end. Then, one day,Continue reading “God: hidden in plain sight. Part 2”

God: hidden in plain sight (A theological reflection on the search for God, in two parts) Part 1: Don’t push; finding God is easy – once we understand how to see This is perhaps the most difficult task of all – for all humanity, and certainly for me. It is like trying to see behindContinue reading “God: hidden in plain sight. Part 1”