You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
The word God exists. The idea (actually as many people that believe a god God exists many ideas) about God exists, but the problem is that they all fail to recognize where the idea came from.
You have mastered the exciting language of the Brits (and Americans), regardless of the fact that you forget some comma. But where does the current meaning of the word meaning come from? Or any of the words in the previous sentences? Yes, they evolved. But you nor I can imagine where these words came from anymore. There are people that put their whole life into finding out where certain words came from. They get very good at it, but still have to accept that some words were created by someone in the past, where they will never find out why and how.
Now, lets look at the word God, YWH or Allah, or Odin, or Shiva, or any of those things. They represent a character in a story. Most often a creation story and/or moral dictate stories. But what these stories actually convey is: We don’t know the way the actual universe came to be, but we know our ancestors name the things the way we address them now. This is within words, meanings and intent. That is why all stories in creation myths (mostly named ‘holy books’) are basically references to how people at in a certain period put their ‘ancestors’ in a character or characters to denote the history of their clan/group/culture.
So, does God (the Abrahamic god) really exist? No, because it is a name for all ancestors humanity has had and they all died. They created our language and moral systems, they created the models we now recognize as concepts and social structures.
If yes, how can I connect with him? Well, as you read above, it isn’t a him, it is a they and they HAVE existed. How to connect with your ancestors? By not making them to shame and accept the gift of all of history of humanity and help advance in the best way possible.
For more indepth on the correct translation of the Abrahamic scriptures in this sense:
20th Century version – of Abrahamic scriptures
