Post #46 "Defining Reality"

The subject of Reality and Non-reality cannot exclude the consideration of god or gods or God. Words can be applied to Non-reality as non-reality is image. Words are not applicable for Reality, for Reality cannot be reduced to symbols as it cannot be reduced to image and remain what it is.Creation results when the imaged components of our non-reality attempt to express the inexpressible. We create  the image. We create God! We create many gods. Language gives possession to that described so that what is described becomes the symbolic Word. This is the case for the word 'God". God becomes what we make God to be. God takes on the characteristics the given word suggests. These characteristics are the qualities of our creation. We formulate the word and the word recreates God.

The Reality, however, exists as Reality. Our attempts at defining the Reality cannot have an affect on Reality. No matter what we do, we are unable to affect the Reality. Now apply this to the chaos that called forth creation according to the bible and according to science. Apply this to the two biblical mythological stories we have been using for illustration and discussion. The Reality cannot be possessed by us because we have named it, nor can we know it because we think we can describe it. The God we create simply is not the Reality we sought to capture and possess. The description of the affects of creation cannot be put into words. Words cannot describe and we cannot know Reality. We cannot name or try to define that which we are incapable of knowing. Our efforts throughout history have resulted in the God we have created and recreated over and over again and again. Somehow these results end up with a God that resembles humanity and reminds humanity of itself and all that it desires to be.