Less- and More

This same God that created the heavens and the earth and everything in it and outside of it, even time itself, has- most thankfully- a very real personality. This is one area where Christianity parts ways with many other worldly belief systems. They refer to God as a "force"- or perhaps mere "energy". While I can't deny any of that as fact, it immediately strikes me as sort of a half-description, and a rather poor one at that. It's like saying that your mother or your father is "a mass of cells" or "brain matter". You might as well describe a Picasso painting as "colors", or a book of Shakespeare as "word symbols". While all of these descriptors may be true, they are somehow pitifully inaccurate ways of explaining what I like to call the Real Thing. Clearly the person who calls your loved one "a mass of cells" may in fact be scientifically accurate, but it tells me right away that they never really knew them.