How do we speak “as God”?
My dear friends...
I remember that a few days after Communion with God -- a book written entirely from God's point of view in a first-person voice -- hit the bookstores, reporters began calling me for interviews, and many of them led with the same question:
How can you claim to be speaking in the first person voice of God? Isn't that just a bit presumptuous?
It's a fair question. While I am not the first person to have produced such a book (far from it, in fact), inquiring minds still want to know: how can I -- or for that matter, anyone -- dare to place words in God's mouth in this way?
The first thing I answer when asked this question is that I am not placing words in God's mouth. God is placing words in mine.
Furthermore, God is doing the same thing with all of us. I am not the only person on the planet speaking God's words. All of us are in Communion with God all of the time.
I remember that a few days after Communion with God -- a book written entirely from God's point of view in a first-person voice -- hit the bookstores, reporters began calling me for interviews, and many of them led with the same question:
How can you claim to be speaking in the first person voice of God? Isn't that just a bit presumptuous?
It's a fair question. While I am not the first person to have produced such a book (far from it, in fact), inquiring minds still want to know: how can I -- or for that matter, anyone -- dare to place words in God's mouth in this way?
The first thing I answer when asked this question is that I am not placing words in God's mouth. God is placing words in mine.
Furthermore, God is doing the same thing with all of us. I am not the only person on the planet speaking God's words. All of us are in Communion with God all of the time.