If a stranger asked you to describe God, do you think you would? What would you say? Would you feel comfortable asking a stranger to describe God?
What events in your life have caused you to rethink your understanding of God or cause you to question if God exists
After reading Sacred Encounters did your description of God change? If so, how?
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Can One really talk about God.?"God is Holy Other" Otto argues; And If that is true... that God is "Holy-Other"-How can we talk about God? The dialectical is matched with ambiguity. The literalist makes notations and coins them in-to dogma while the non-sensationalist would agree with the transcendental-realism of Otto. Yet to a stranger and myself, "All real living is meeting"... There is the face of God. Otto should had read more of Buber. What caused this turn in my life...A death of a mother and Ich und Du.
I see God as the goodness in individuals, society and all living beings. The difficulties we experience when we ask those hard questions like "why is this happening" and we can't find an answer - the answer beyond that I see as God. God for me is not male or female, but a sacred and peaceful mystery. This God I can recognise as something that is loveable evn though I see God as mystery.
To me God is rescuer. I had a Protestant Ulster background, so desperate to know if it was real and empty enough on military service in another country that my search took me to kneeling at a huge crucifix one night and exploring Catholicism. God was beyond my ideas of 'religion', so vast 'Holy Other' yes, but very approachable.