God is unknowable to the philosopher, unsearchable by the humanist and inconceivable by scientist.
Try to envision the most complete concepts of the universe developed by Stephen Hawking, or Richard Dawkins or any other popular theory of all existing matter - and you will start to get a blurry snapshot of 6 days in the eternity of who God is.
God is knowable only in so far as he allows himself to be known to each person.
Is this good reason to fail to attempt such a feat as knowing God? Or is it part of the amazing mystery that compels our search for deeper understanding of the God who created all that we can not even begin to comprehend.
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Hear, hear. Now, I was going to introduce to you a book, that on the surface appeared to be by an athiestic smarter-than-god type, but at second glance turns out to be something that I want to read. .. [this version from audible.com. Get it free by going to audible.com/twit and sign up for a new account]
God Is Dead (Unabridged)
By: Ron Currie, Jr.
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Program Type: Audiobook (Fiction); Unabridged
Narrator: Gabriel Baron
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, 2007
Length: 5 hours and 29 min.
Audio Format: Format:4 File size:large (1 hour of audio = 14 MB) Sound quality:excellent This title is burnable
Publisher's Summary
When God descends to earth as a Dinka woman from Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, the result is a world bizarrely new yet eerily familiar.
In Ron Currie's provocative, wise, and emotionally resonant novel, we meet God himself, as well as the Dinka woman whose mortality He must suffer when He inhabits her body; people all over the world coping with the devastating news of God's demise; a group of young men who, fearing the end of the world, take fate into their own hands; mental patients who insist that a god still exists; armies taking up the eternal war between fate and free will; and parents who, in the absence of a deity and the "lack of anything to do on Sundays", worship their children.
On the surface, this is a world utterly transformed, yet certain things remain unchanged: protective parents clash with willful, idealistic teenagers; idols are exalted; small-town rumor mills run unabated; and children often don't realize how to forgive their parents until it's too late.
In God Is Dead, Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuk's blackest comedy, and the thought-provoking ethical questions of Kurt Vonnegut, all with a light touch, empathy, and wisdom that make for an exhilarating experience. Offbeat yet accessible, God Is Dead is an exciting debut from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.
Sounds interesting. Here's a similar story idea, maybe it's been taken... "Who Shot J.C.??"
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