Answering Tough Questions

The question, “Who is God?” seems like the most preposterous question for any human being to answer, because who are we, mere mortals, to even attempt to describe who God is. The objective of this and the following articles is not to try and define God as though He were definable, but to find 4 different ways of arriving at the answer to this question, ‘Who is God?’ The first way would be to find all there is to know about Him based on what He has done throughout the history of mankind. The second way would be to find all that He said about Himself. The third way would be to learn from those who had a personal relationship with Him. And the fourth, and to me, the most compelling way would be to share all that I’ve come to know God to be by my personal relationship with God and this would be built on the first three approaches as well. Knowing about God through Creation God existed even before He created this world. He wasn’t created – He existed from time immemorial. We learn from ...

The question, "Who am I?" is one of the most unanswered questions in life and yet the answer is one of the most sought-after answers by all humans. It begins to be asked at different ages and stages in life and until it's answered, it will continue to be asked. It isn't asked very consciously, but it's asked all the same.  There are several routes that have been taken to help asnwer this question and while some of them seem to answer the question (either immediately or in time), eventually most people realise that the answers they thought satisfied, didn't quite satisfy after all, and then the search begins all over again. Before we attempt to answer this question, let's look at some of the routes people take to help answer the question - "Who am I?" Profession Knowledge Pleasure Prominence Power Position Influence Popularity Physical Appearance Possession and Wealth Pleasure-Renunciation Skill Perfection Parents Children Past / Background Relig...