MYSTERY AND BEYOND
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Who is “GOD”?
Supermanager?
Six-day creation?
Prayer of petition?
Children suffering?
God in my Bones
Four Components
1. Root Encounter
How exciting is Wonder!
Journey into the Unknown
Face to Face with Whom?
The Breath that is Me
The Touch of Tenderness
2. Clearing up
3. Articulation
4. Celebration
Why Religion?
The Mystery of Life
Human but real
Psychological needs
Concepts of God
The ultimate questions
Dogmatic creed of science?
Values honoured by scientists
Our roots lie in mystery
Our true self
Failures of religions
To love ourselves
Conscience – from where?
Human Dignity
The individual person
Free and Autonomous
God does not interfere
Conscience points to God
Conscience and evolution
The Reality we respond to
Is morality absurd?
Humanist Conscience?
Does religion hinder progress?
Does religion erode responsibility?
Morality and self-interest
Is God personal?
If we have mind, so has ‘God’
‘God’ grounds our personal self
Is our universe personal?
Is ‘God’ a person?
Images of ‘God’ in Scripture
Three ‘Persons’ in the Trinity?
God makes contact from within us
‘God’ in sacramental realities
Religious experiences? True or false?
The effects of meeting Christ
‘Incarnation’ on other planets?
God in our world?
The universe demands an explanation
God’s ‘mind’ and truth
Our dependence in ‘being’
We touch God in love
Does evolution disprove creation?
Causality and the whole world
Is belief in creation stupid?
The root of our self-worth?
No larger frame of meaning?
Belief and wholeness
A psychological need for God?
Can arguments convince?
Is God Love?
Evil in our universe
We ourselves inflict evil
God shares in our suffering
Evil can be transformed
Did God design Hell?
Love in our universe
Love means forgiveness
Love means happiness
Love means life
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