The word God, Pointer to Mystery

God is a word we use
to refer to a power our minds cannot conceive.

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We are trapped in space, time, and matter.

The power that made the universe
is beyond space, beyond time, beyond matter.

We cannot understand God,
we cannot know what God wants,
because God is beyond wanting, beyond understanding.

To imagine God as shaped like a man,
behaving like a man,
is to mock God.

It is like mice worshiping mouse-shaped gods,
like fish worshiping fish-shaped gods.

To bend God to human concepts,
to fit God into a cage shaped by human experience,
is only idolatry, not religion.

There is mystery at the heart of religion,
because we cannot comprehend eternity.

This is why the first verse of the Tao Te Ching
is a caution:
The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao;
the name that can be named
is not the eternal name.