This blog will be a springboard for intellectual, post-modern reason and honesty. It covers faith and doubt as well as the significance of meaning. "God is where you let him in."
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
A "Transnatural" God
Wait! Before you conclude I don't believe in God, PLEASE, understand that my problem is with the Orthodox-literal view of some "being" out-there, some-where. I DO believe in God, but it takes far more faith than you might first image. No one can scientifically or rationally "prove" there is a divine power "that makes for salvation" (Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan). The death of Osama bin Laden, the composition of a poem, your first kiss - all of these could be explained in terms of natural cause-and-effect. Viewed, however, from a much larger context, these things assist one in deriving strength otherwise lost in a debate over minutia and opinion. The existence of a "transnatural" God interprets the above mentioned events as the accomplishment of divine ends; bringing justice, beauty, and love into the world. Only a great deal of "kavvanah" (intention), joined by a persistent energy to living in harmony with the divine principles of the cosmos, can one know from personal experience how very real God is, conceived transnaturally. JKH
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