Deism, Theism...

In the Christian tradition, there is an unfortunate tendency to view God as an individual, personal “He.” Unfortunate for at least two reasons:

1. It limits God (as not-she and not-neuter). What good is a limited God? God must be an It to be truly unlimited.

2. It separates God from Man. One result of this is that Man isn’t considered to have divine nature. So he has no responsibility to discover it. Convenient: eat drink and be merry!

But man must have divine nature. The biblical god even said “I am who am.” Well, I surely am a who am, you are a who am, every aware being is a who am, so how can there be separateness?

One explanation for this tendency to personalize God as a separate masculine being can be found in Haiku God theory. One form of Haiku God is electromagnetic energy – defined as positive male energy, as opposed to attractive female energy (see March post “About Energy”). The greatest source of this loving, aware energy happens to be the sun. It provides the energy and awareness for life to exist on earth. It is our “creator.” “He,” as love, also provides compassion. But it is important to note that the sun, one of countless centers of positive energy, is only one of the three forms of God, the others being matter and dark energy (see March post “Dark Energy). It is dark energy, the ground of the other two, which is the transcendent form of God, the form which, as undifferentiated and unknowable, is beyond individuality and beyond any attempt by man to describe, categorize or conceptualize It.

It’s probably not harmful to view God as a person for a while, as long as it is just a stepping stone to viewing God as It is by actually experiencing It within. Then all views, concepts and beliefs vanish into the pregnant void of dark energy (which actually is light!). Try it.