Purpose Driven Life 11

My normal practice is not to think of God as a person. The anthropomorphic god seems prone to over simplification or misinterpretation – perhaps to apply human frailty to God. But on the other hand both our experience and our language is based on person to person relationships. It would be near impossible to discuss or describe our relation to God without the use of the analogy of a person. There is also richness to expressing my relation to God in terms of human relations. Certainly the Bible used such terms frequently.

So I will no longer complain about the book’s use of an anthropomorphic view of God. This is also part resignation since it appears that this book will use this context to convey much of the truth it has to offer.

Free of my normal stilted language, so much more of the experience of God flows. It is the language of prayer and praise. I wonder if the change in language will have a change in my relationship.