The Question of God

by I.M.Knosp

Aside from our inherent ways tied to each tribe, clan or house the belief system that has most impacted our kind is that of Christianity. But the form of Christianity of any given time period is not identical to the ones before it, after it or to the side of it. But one commonality is that the origin of the figure of Jesus and by extension the deity in which he is meant to be the manifestation of (or son depending on who you ask) and that is Yahweh (Or Jehovah or Elohim Depending again on who you ask, what day of the week it is and whether the moon is feeling constipated). The reason this is key resides within the question of God. The God of Christianity is not an amorphous or philosophical being. He is a specific deity from Semitic Tradition.

Those who deny this figure as the central divinity of the Christian Faith are either heretics, liars or fairly commonly misguided monotheists. God to many Christians is in fact an amorphous being, more likely to be pictured akin to Jupiter or Zeus in appearance. He is a feeling, a universal soul, a God of Goodness as it were, not Yahweh but more a concept or general divinity. Other modern depictions may show him as a cluster of stars, female All-Mother, a simple beam of light or the classic Old testament depictions of the Burning Bush. But at their core the God of the Old testament is not the God Christians think of when they venerate, the god they venerate is more akin to a generic figure. Many of them are in fact praying to something more akin to a tribal god. Not on purpose mind you, but more as a cultural artifact. It is remarkably difficult (and potentially dangerous) to remove a peoples idea of divinity.

The reason this matters is that in many cases when one discusses religion with Christians you are not discussing the realities of the religion or the deity in question but the perception, which is often more hopes and dreams than dogma and doctrine. For all their bluster, for all their proclamations of the one true religion, the one true god. They haven't quite agreed on what any of those things are yet. As a result when dissected from the outside looking in what stands before you of Christianity is a discordant mess reflecting half understood ideas of the Clergy and half remembered traditions of the folk faith.

Neither truly pagan, Nor Truly Christian. To separate the two as clinically as possible is to lay bare a tormented and contorted paganism and a foreign and to us often repugnant Semitic Tradition. At the intersection of these two is where the idea of God lies and in so doing reveals that the God of the Christians is no God at all but a clouded figment. Most could not tell you his name, fewer still could describe him, even fewer would agree with the first two.

The Question of God in Christendom is one the Christians themselves have failed to answer. Yet this is not so within our inherent ways. The divine nature within ones own blood line, the history of his people, those who rose to Godhood against all odds, or those Gods who were born of the Divine nature (the need) of their people themselves. These are countless and precious, invaluable in the value of life itself. If one seeks the divine, "God" as many will call it, then they need look no further than those around them, before them, after them. Divinity is replete throughout our kind and the world around us and the realms beyond. From the smallest babe to the grandest of heroes and all those divine relatives of ours both named and unnamed. It is to them we should look and not to a mere concept cloaked in the illusion of spiritualism.

This Article Was Originally Published on Substack on June 24th, 2024