God Is Who I Am (And Who You Are)

Presume there is One God.

If God knows everything I know, then God is who I am, and then some (albeit, an infinite “some”). Think about this.

Let me say it another way.

I am the sum of my experiences. To be sure, by “experiences” I mean to include all internal as well as “external” experience (though I quote “external” because technically all experiences are strictly internal and only seem “external” to us). So all my thoughts, feelings, memories, moods and other characteristics are all, “my experiences”. Even “who I am” as a person is included in this definition of experiences.

So if God knows everything I know, then God knows all of my experiences, including the experience of “who I am”. In order for God to know “who I am”, God must experience “who I am”. And the only way to experience that is to also experience my limitations!

This is important. God cannot know me, unless God experiences “who I am” in the exact same way that I experience “who I am”, with all limitations!

Is that even possible? Well, according to the Bible, yes! What do you think the whole concept of Jesus is about? Over and over Jesus tells us, “I am just a man, not to be worshipped. And yet I am the infinite God, whom you must obey.” Jesus was “God made flesh”, which means “limited god”. Christians admit that Jesus was “limited and unlimited at the same time”. But they conveniently forget the significance and the importance of the limited aspects of Jesus. (Though the book of Hebrews spends considerable effort attempting to emphasize the importance of the Christ's limitations, without which he could not be a mediator between God and man.)

Now think about it some more.

Wasn't Jesus really just trying to tell us that God knows us, and even while knowing us God still loves us? Wasn't the profundity of the message of Christ that we are known, and loved? Jesus was only trying to tell us that our “salvation” depends on our realization that we are accepted (“forgiven”) by God “the Father” who knows us “through the son”, which means “in the limited sense of our being!”

The message of Christ is not some supernatural devine new law or decree sent by God. It is simply an affirmation of our relationship to God “the Father”. A new understanding of the ancient and eternal reality!

You shouldn't need religion to realize this!

(Originally written on November 11, 2010)