Jordan Stratford+'s latest post beautifully expounds upon the nature of the Divine, and our understanding of such. I agree with him when he says, "The Divine is just too big to fit into one Personality."

So, can you individuate the substance of God? Can you take "the Force" out of the equation and set it aside and ask it questions? I don't think so. As I understand it, the Divine is a relationship both within and without existence.

For many years, whenever anyone asked whether I believed in God, I would reply that I was an agnostic, because it seemed like the simplest way to describe my ambiguous "beliefs" at the time. I no longer wear that label. It never did fit me very well.

No, I don't "believe" in God; I can know, through direct experience of the present, the reality of God (not necessarily the narrow-minded old man portrayed in some dusty book, but much more). So it is that I love how Jordan articulates the usefulness of metaphor when it comes to understanding the true "One God" through Its many possible facets:

Ironically it is the richness and multiplicity of symbol, of metaphor, that presents us with a way out of obsessive idolatry. Give me my burning bush, my dove, my tetragrammaton, my oroboros, my olive branch and wreath of laurel. Each of these are in a way a person, a mask of God, concealing as much as they reveal. Putting all our eggs in one basket, iconically speaking, results in just the kind of idolatry that the iconoclasm of Judaism, for example, was designed to overcome.