Who is and who is not our God

A critique of Bishop John S. Spong

Note. Before you read this prayer it is highly recommended that you read the Preparation for talking with God, here.

Note. I start my daily prayers with this prayer, after reading my Preparation for talking with God. The explanation of the prayer is below, and you may read it first. 

God and good Father! You are not the God of the physicists, because that God is a God without life, simply a mathematical requirement, not more than a link of a chain of phenomena. Their God is a God that does not see, neither hear or have love or compassion on his creatures. Their God is no more than an unknown of the physical world; a "dead" God, not You, the glorious God and the God that must be glorified, who talks and communicates with us.

Oh loving Lord! Nor are you the God of philosophers, because this God is only a concept: the necessary Being, the beginning, the cause of everything, the prime motor; that is a God that does not love nor "feel;" a cold God, who does not have compassion on human pain. He is "above" and doesn't care for us. You are not so, Father, who dialogues and sympathizes with us.

Instead our God is the Holy One, infinite, eternal, immense, powerful, incomprehensible, and at the same time the personal God that Jesus experienced; the God of faith, whom we can, not only believe, but also know and experience, and even get some kind of "familiarity" with him. He, who is (analogically) Abba, Father of all human beings, knows us individually and truly loves all of us as children, without distinctions.

More in the book.

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