Most of us have an idea of God. If we have any ense at all, we accept that this idea has limitations. We get into trouble and or give up when god as we limit god fails to perform as demanded.
We give lip service to that phrase of Paul's " see through a glass darkly " found in I Corinthians 13: 12. We do so until the crunch comes: Then we break the glass. We function mostly like small children.
In writing all this, I confess that I have faced little of the slings and arrows which Shakespeare says speaks of in Hamlet.
For me, God holds us together even in the midst of all that looks not like goodness.
Lumen de Lumine that shines in darkness which compreheneth it not. That also provides another point of consideration. The believer always resorts to the caveat that human cognition lacks the capacity being a thing created to comprehend the thing creating. D. T. Suzuki in his book Zen suggests the cauldron of naming or using techniques approriate from inside the created order to describe that which exists outside the created order. One thinks of imaginary numbers. But, history does not show an instance in which a mathematician has gone to the stake for taking exception to the use of imaginary numbers.
We, in our various delusions and mental illness make god a monster.
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