Jesus Asks about God
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Something itched Jesus a bit as he went home. Abba had spoken of God. The word God rarely came up in their talks for reasons that seemed obvious to Jesus.
“Abba, what do you make of the word god or God with a capital G? We find other names like Jehovah, Elohim and Yaweh. Yet when I come to you, it is your name that I say. Is there a God besides?”
“Let’s clear this up,” Abba replied. “These names are what people came up with when they cry out. God is commonly used.”
“They are not all you?”
“No. I am the universal truth, the word that points to beauty and to truth which are one. I point to fairness and justice. I point to love and freedom. The person seeking these can converse with me. Merely by seeking, asking, knocking. Otherwise people can imagine any deity they wish and see him or her as real. Why else do we have so many legends and testaments? And so many vengeful and small and disastrous deities?”
“You have competition?”
“There is a lot of static, a lot of noise, a lot of confusion. Most religions and priests do not help.”
“So I should teach people to call on you.”
“Of course. Or on any of the names I stated. Beauty. Truth. Fairness. Justice. Love. Freedom.”
“The rest of these gods are false.”
“They are, Jesus” Abba said. “They tell people to execute their enemies. I say seek a way forward that is good. Many do not bother to seek me at all. They do not repent. They do not seek forgiveness. They are caught in the downward steps to harm and hurt.”
“Gods are not real.”
“They are real, Jesus. But finally false. They will vanish. When you and I talk, Jesus, we are on solid ground. Our talk has value. It is beautiful. We will be there.”
“No god behind the flame?”
“Forget the flame, Jesus. Some things none can know because they are unfolding. That is what ‘I am who I am’ means.”
“We move,” Jesus said. “We also die.”
“Yes.”
“We live on.”
“Yes.”
“And you remain the voice of what is real.”
“Yes I do.”
“There are things even you, Abba,do not know.”
“I cannot know what cannot yet be known.”
“There is no all-powerful, omnipotent deity.”
“There is a good creation, Jesus. What is is good. What is evil ends. Isn’t that enough to know?”
Jesus thought about god while walking home. He saw creation moving in amazing ways. He saw into it. Close up. And he saw Abba as anchor, rock and friend.
