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Creation, which is known as the first bible, is a primary revelation of the
awesome wonder of that creative force many of us know as God. So far
beyond the scope of human comprehension as to be termed unnamable,
and seen by many only as a spiritual power or force. But the Christian
scriptures give us what we could never have arrived at on our own – this
divine force or God is at its core a marvelous love that wants to be known
and loved in return. In Matthew 11:27, Jesus states, “No one knows the
Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
This is good news, as human beings can now come to know and relate to
the unknowable and unnamable, through faith in Jesus Christ who is that
divine force of love made flesh through the Incarnation.

In Built for God this chapter is aptly entitled “The Mystery of God” as we are
truly dealing with a mystery in both books, and so mystical paradoxical
language is used by both Built for God and the Tao Te Ching. In Built for
God, the Tao becomes God, whose essence is beyond any name or
description. In the Book of Genesis, God identifies God’s self to Moses as
Ego Eimi (I Am). God is Being Itself, Existence Itself, a nameless God
beyond all names, a formless God previous to all forms, a liberator God who
is utterly liberated from the limits that culture and religion put on any Divinity.

What both books are essentially doing in this chapter is exploring our
relationship to and participation in this sublime mystery. A succinct manner
of describing this reality might be to say we are spiritual beings having a
human experience.

a John 17:25; Matthew 11:27; Job 36:26;Job 37:5; 1 John 4:7-19;
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Luke 6:45; Judges 13:18; Exodus 3:13-15; Genesis 1:1-2; Genesis 3:20;
e Romans 8:9-18; Ephesians 4:4-6; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14;
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1 Corinthians 6:19.