Jeffrey Davis

Do you think that is the over-arching mantra of religion? Christians say to Muslims, “Our God is THE God, and our book is THE book.” Muslims return with the same rebuttal. (Never mind that both religions stemmed from the same man, Abraham.)

Last night I was having a conversation with some good friends, and one new one, when a topic like this came up. The question was, “Is God a belief system?” My friend Rick who writes at a new thought provoking blog, SpiritualLiving.net, posted some intriguing, gut level questions after the conversation. Here are a few of them:

Is God a belief system?

Some might say Islam (Muslim faith) doesn’t = God.

Others might say Buddhism doesn’t = God.

Still others might say Hinduism doesn’t = God

But…

Does Christianity = God? Is God a belief system?

…

If God isn’t a belief system, what is God?

[Read the rest of Rick's post]

My friend Jim, author of Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God, also alluded to this conversation in a post at his blog this morning.

So what do you think, is God a belief system? If so, as a new friend from last night asked, “how’s that working for you?”

[Note: that last question can be read with disdain and sarcasm, but that was neither the tone last night nor is it here.]

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