By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
Who or what is God?
According to Paul, "even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth -- as in fact there are many gods and many lords -- yet for us [sc. as Christians] there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist" (1 Cor 8:5 f.).
Elsewhere, Paul says of the one and only God, to whom glory is to be ascribed forever, that "from him and through him and for him are all things" (Rom 11:36).
But, then, who could the one God who, for Christians, is the Father possibly be except "the One which is all," as distinct from "the one among the many" (Whitehead), which is to say, precisely, the Whole, from and through and for which are all things?
22 November 1996
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