Doctor Mike

Yet those things are completely compatible.

They're totally compatible.

That God makes us to have free will and not free will at the same time, it's okay.

I mean, it just means thinking a little bit outside the lines.

So God is outside of the creation.

Yeah.

God is outside of the creation.

God is, you know, in the Hebrew Bible, God is I am.

It's the fundamental I am.

It's the fundamental is.

God pre-exists before everything.

This is the Jewish God.

This is the fundamental monotheistic God.

By the way, this was a big idea that there was an I am.

There was a force behind all of that, a nebulous force that we can't really understand.

And then we anthropomorphize at our peril.

You know, it's like the guy with the beard, the guy in the sky with a beard who gets mad.

You have to understand it somehow, but it's nothing more than a metaphor.

So that's in the Jewish and Christian and Muslim faiths, the understanding of God is metaphoric in much the same way that we have to use metaphors for all sorts of other things like love and other things that we can't quite, almost all of the right brain concepts we actually describe metaphorically.

So for example, you want to tell somebody you're in love with that you're in love with her, that you write something down and it's inadequate to the actual feelings that you have.