“Four Ways of Viewing God” - Rob Bell talks with Peter Rollins

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As discussed by Peter Rollins & Rob Bell

1. God as Super-Being
   This is understanding God as a bigger version of ourselves. If I am finite, God is infinite. If my knowledge is limited, God’s knowledge is limitless.

2. God as Hyper-Being
   This is the most orthodox view of God. It is grounded in the understanding that God cannot be conceptualized. God is bigger than anything we can say about God. A sunken ship contains a fragment of the ocean. But the ocean contains the entirety of the ship. We contain but a fragment of God. God contains us in our entirety. We are entirely saturated by God.

3. God as Ground of Being
   You encounter God through giving yourself to the world in love. God is that which you discover in the act of love itself. At the very moment that you think you have lost God because you have been busy loving the world and the people in it is the precise moment you find God. The question is not where is God? but rather where are we?

4. God as Event
   God is the name we give to that which calls us to greater love, freedom, hospitality, kindness. It might be summed up in the words gravity & grace, as described by Simone Weil. The world is ruled by gravity. That is to say that the world has what appears to be a natural way of being, where we meet violence with violence and hatred with hatred. Yet there is also grace. Grace is peppered throughout gravity and is that which keeps us from returning an eye for an eye and allows us to offer peace when met with violence, love when met with hate.

   SOURCE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-robcast/id956742638?i=1000373087539