Who is God?
Is He this or is He that?
Is He tall or is He fat?
Is He black or is He brown?
Is He up or is He down?
Is He here or all around?
Is He secret or is He known?
Is He more than can be shown?
Is He even more than that?
Is He…that cat in the hat?
Do we explain Him or do we contain Him?
Do we put God in a box?

       The Bible opens with the Old Testament saying, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 – KJV

       This first section closes with the scroll of the prophet Malachi who writes,

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” Malachi 4:5, 6 – KJV.

       I present to you the box, the conditions within; the who, what, when, where, why and how of the box. That’s as far as we go. We live within the box. Isn’t it funny that Christians (for the most part, myself included) and unbelievers both put God in a box? A nice little package all tied with a bow. We know where we put God and we open or close our box as we see fit; some deny the box without even realizing the box they are in…thus, the box.

       The Christian interprets the scriptures holding to what he or she defines as relevant: sometimes a long thin box, sometimes a short fat box but still a box. The atheist denies the existence of God: the smallest of boxes that looms ever larger, ever heavier as the evidence of time reveals His existence in the most natural of terms. The agnostic creates his own idea of God – God could be this or He could be that, why He could even be the cat in the hat; don’t limit him – or her! We can’t seem to know God though we see Him as bigger…but still in a box. But boxes are to be opened because they contain something…enter the gospel.

       Now this ‘container’ has a bottom foundation, four sides and a top or a lid leading in and out of it. Concerning the foundation and the corralling sides we see boundaries that are plainly seen, containing an essence, a truth that helps us to distinguish direction, to give us a bearing toward action and consequence. This box demands more than mere behavioral responses such as not putting our hands in the fire because contained within it are not mere physical properties. There are records that define history, establishing a starting; a reference of place, origin and progressions seen from a perspective inside it, causing wonder about the outside. Let’s call this the Old Testament.

       In the New Testament Matthew and Luke start with genealogies, more records, more box material. Mark’s gospel opens without one.

“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; as it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” Mark 1:1~3 – KJV

       This is the prophecy of the last piece of the box, the lid, prophesied by another within the box, Isaiah, et al. And the postmaster put a label inside the lid of the box,

“Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” Isaiah 40:3 – KJV

       So we look up at the label and read of our need to prepare for something but what? John’s gospel opens,

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1 – KJV

       The Scriptures close with John’s revelation:

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” Revelation 22:21 – NIV

       – all box stuff!

       Sorry to burst some bubbles but there is a box. There is a bottom, it has a foundation, an absolute beginning, a support that man has been trying to explain away for centuries with theories (the root of the word “theory” is?) – the latest to be dying out is Darwinism: unable to support itself yet still claiming validity calling upon faith from the scientific community. Science is science – it is not based on faith but empirical facts that are discovered. How can a  community that accepts only ’empirical’ facts ask anyone to take their theories on faith? They have many fences to sit on; and their fences divide them; science is merely the pursuit of existing truth.