The question “Who is God?” is a very difficult question that has no simple, straightforward answers. Perhaps one of the best answers to this question is stated in Exodus 3 when God says to Moses, “I am who I am”. This seemingly basic answer tells us as humans a lot about God in that there is no way to properly describe God because he is incomparable to anything else known to man. Additionally, the fact that God does not need to do any further explaining to his comment in Exodus 3 reveals that God is the all-powerful figure in the world. In Exodus 6, God says “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them”. This quote suggests that we do not fully see God and that we only see and understand parts of God. This adds to the complexity of describing God.
In his article, Ratzinger states that man’s encounter with God stems from things such as loneliness and security. Although these two traits cannot define or describe who God is, they provide context for God’s role in the life of man. As explained by Ratzinger, man’s loneliness causes the need for a void to be filled, so man turns to God for a belief in a higher power to create some sort of reasoning within the world. Further, a belief in a higher power, God, creates a sense of security for man by serving as a source of unity and oneness. These two things help reveal God’s purpose for man in the world. Through the connection of God’s purpose and his brief and vague explanation of who He is in Exodus, we can begin to form an idea of who God actually is; however, this is a question that will never be answered fully.
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Well first and foremost, I agree with your idea with the fact that “Who’s God” is a complicated question to answer since there are a variety of possible ways of coming to a conclusion and there’ll be trouble trying to come into a consensus. Moreover, I disagree with your idea that God was trying to depict himself as the all-powerful figure in the world since he gave his power to Aaron and Moses which in a sense teeters the attention away from God in my opinion. Can you help me get to how you reached your conclusion?
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The concept of God does have a lot of mystique already, but I like how you specifically found evidence of his mystique in the Bible – it’s not that we just don’t understand God, but that God is difficult to understand in the first place.
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I thought that you had a very well-thought out response to the prompt. I really liked your section regarding the quotation, “I am who I am”, which I consulted a little bit in my response. Beyond the incomparable nature of God as a divine, all-powerful being. I wonder if you think that by giving himself this sort of identification, that it can help his followers to make a greater connection with him and call onto him more directly, strengthening the relationship and communion between God and his followers.
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Your explanation of the second quote presents a very interesting point; the idea that we do not fully know and understand God. This would mean God is in control of what we see and how we see him. For example, he is the one who finally chooses to name himself to Moses and chose when to do it after being asked by several people and not doing so. This does make defining who God is more complex.
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I like your interpretation of Ratzinger’s idea of loneliness and security being being the root of mans encounter with God. God fills a void that no other being in this universe can fill, and that void needs a sense of purpose and unity.
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