Our God is whatever drives our endeavours;
is the source of the target for which we aim, our purpose.
God is thus special and individual for each living person.
Religions form to provide standardised aims and purposes for life
and thus Gods which their adherents are called to follow and to worship.
The Christian God is said to have be that of Jesus,
who showed us the form of his personal God and called us to follow him
- to adopt the same aims in life.

Mankind developed its concept of God to counter our primal fear
of ultimate responsibility for the things seemingly beyond our control;
to explain the inexplicable and justify the irrationalities of nature.

Godly actions are thus wrapped in magical invention,
giving unearthly powers to those with charismatic voices and healing hands.
Despite the discoveries of science, the credulous still pray for unlikely miracles.
and write large the few coincidences between their prayers and reality.

Such Gods exist to meet man's need for someone to blame, to defer to, to worship;
something lying on a greater plane, beyond our bounded existence;
something to explain the mysteries beyond our comprehension;
someone to whom we can appeal when all other hope is gone;
someone to take the blame when we dare not do so;
someone to defer to, fear and worship.

Mankind then developed its concept of heaven, and an afterlife, resurrection,
to counter our primal fear of unbeing and to give some ultimate meaning to life.
With this came the threat of divine judgement and the hope of a new body
and a glorious future for those who toed the line
defined by the priesthood of their day.

Our God is often misconceived in our imaginings as a superior person, a King, a Lord.
Someone to whom we can appeal, who has personal feelings like us..
Yet divinity is truly as far beyond our understanding
as we are beyond the comprehension of an ant or termite.
We live in a completely different dimension;
have a different form of existence.

Creeds give a form to God, which bear little relationship to reality.
Religious doctrine thus camouflages the reality of God with a sacramental mantle,
so that we are brought to question the reality of any divine existence,
because what we are told is based on completely false criteria.
God help us!


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