The title of this post seems better suited to my friend Earl’s blog than my own. I don’t mean anything philosophical or metaphysical or whatever else theologians mean by questions like this. I simply mean, what is God like? Who is he in terms of his identity and his relationship with creation. I don’t normally post about my own faith and religious experience on this blog, for a variety of reasons. Nevertheless, I’m making an exception in this case because I believe that Jay brings up some good points. Also, I know exactly how Jay feels.

Although I attend church (and very much love my present church context) I do, at times, find myself wondering if I believe in the same God in which much of Evangelical Christianity believes. The answer is often “no.” This was a pretty scary realization when I originally…realized it.¹ Soon after this, however, I figured that I believed in the God of the Bible, and I’d take him over the theological construct to which much of Evangelicalism clings.

In short, John Anderson pretty much sums up who God is, “God is . . . . a paradox. Vulnerable yet powerful. Tricky yet faithful. Present yet absent.” My God is a paradox, I’m okay with that. I understand that for many people God being a paradox is an uncomfortable thought. I’m sensitive to that, but if one claims to have a high view of Scripture, how can one dismiss the Scriptures’ view of God?