Feb. 11 Daily Question

Who is God?

God, in certain schools of thought, is perceived to be the representation of what is divine and what is supreme. For us, he is the creator of all and the object of our faith for everything we’ve been entrusted to. To many God can be the answer to many questions that arise at the terminus of our understanding, capacity, or ability to know and understand. As Bonhoeffer points out, it is easy and common for got to be someone “whom we insert to fill the gap at the limit of our own powers,” and someone who we come to when we need or do not know (Ratzinger). For many reasons, it is challenging to answer the question of what is God, let alone who. God can be many people, God can be one person, or God can be nobody, but for all intents and purposes, God is the quintessence and ultimate expression of the divine. Without saying who God is, there is substance in just a name, and there is a lot to say about the God who names himself the one who is. He exists on a level that is personal, the plane of “I and You,” and not on “the plane of spatial” (Ratzinger). Despite such divinity and the fact that God’s power is boundless, He can be accessed at any place wherever he is let to be found. A belief in Him entails the “courage to entrust oneself to the power that governs the whole world without grasping the divine in one’s hands,” adding to the component of the fact that his divinity can only be understood to a certain extent (Ratzinger).