Reflections on the Schema

Reflections on the Schema

of interpretations

about God, the world, mankind, and religion

Third Part

7. Does God reveal himself?

That God reveals himself and our destiny is a possibility; we cannot prove it, but it is possible. Some people take revelation for granted: that God used some men and women, mystics, prophets and saints to reveal what our senses are not able to perceive, his being and our destiny. This is a possibility, but cannot be proven.

But if we take for granted that there is a revelation of God we may wonder why there are so many differences in these supposedly revelations.

We read constantly in the Old Testament, "Yahveh said." Anybody could consult Yahveh even for the most trivial things, and Yahveh answered. Some people had special visions of Yahveh or of his Angel. Are these revelations from God? To think that the real God is that "humanized god," who changes the laws of nature capriciously, over and over, is wrong. This god presented by some religions has created many atheists.

8. The personal God

In n. 10, when dealing about the relationships between human beings and God, he is seen there as personal; but at the present time these subtitles might be necessary.

8.1. The concept of God should not be rationalized

Having been educated for many years in the doctrine of the Roman Catholic tradition, I had the tendency to put God within dogmas and categories. Add to this, the "reality" which the traditions and myths of the Judean-Christian culture have become and which we have inherited, it makes it more difficult to "see" the being of God as he is.

It has been very hard for me to get rid of all this, and of the tendency to put everything in platonic, aristotelic or thomistic categories and concepts. We are so immersed into the western culture, that it is almost impossible to think with a basis in a different set of values or concepts.