Is It Possible To Talk About God Without Defining, Confining And Playing God?

This is the most difficult question this blogger has asked and the most difficult one to answer so far.  Before starting this entry, this blogger admits that he had in many instances been self-righteous in thinking that the conclusions he had drawn were at least reasonable.  He could not have been more wrong, particularly with respect to conclusions about God, the Son of God, the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin Mary.  For his errors, he asks for understanding and pardon.

Yet, if he were truly repentant, he would delete the blog.  For some reason, he is reluctant to do so, regardless of the errors he had made and will continue to make.  Such conduct, one can assume, showcases pride, Satan's favorite sin.

To answer the question posed by the title of this entry, the answer is no: it is not possible to talk about God without defining, confining and playing God.  If God is not being talked about, would God be then moved from the forefront of one's mind to parts that are reserved for things that are irrelevant and that one would rather forget?

So which is the lesser of two evils: to not talk about God or to speak on behalf of God and thus playing God?  Is this question ever asked and answered by the Apostles, the saints (exempting those whom had been chosen specifically to have actual visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and/or Her Son, Jesus to convey messages to the world), the popes and the clerics?  What about the preachers of other religions who talk about God?  Are all of them not putting words in God's mouth and playing God?

Is God so predictable that God cannot act beyond those words that are written by man?  Does God not have Free Will, and can God not change His mind?  God chose the Jews in the beginning, then when the Son of God came, did He not heal a Samaritan along with the Jews [1], did He not speak with a Samaritan woman [2] and did he not heal a Cannanite's woman's daughter [3]?

If God cannot be defined or confined, then who and what religion can speak definitively for God?

On what grounds can the Catholic Church claim that every single one of its doctrines is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is therefore from God?  Even something as basic as the Mass, there are differences between the Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo [4].  Without uniformity, how can the Catholic Church consider itself universal?

Perhaps it does not make any difference whether there is uniformity within the Catholic Church or if the church is even Catholic, so long as one has absolute faith in God and has in the forefront of one's mind God, and strives to be holy always and love purely without ulterior motives, and examines one's conscience often, calling to mind one's failures and asking God for pardon.

On the other hand, maybe one is permitted to play God, unless these words were not really the words of Christ but put together by power-seeking sinners: “'The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.'” [5]  And these too: "'Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.'" [6]

With so many conflicting positions within the Catholic hierarchy today, whose words are correct and heard and bound in Heaven?  To separate the words that are bound in Heaven from the actions taken on earth in contradiction to those words comes under the heading of hypocrisy, a topic Christ Himself addressed [7].

Perhaps the answer to the question who can speak for God asked earlier is this: "You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers." [8]



[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A11-19&version=NIV
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+4%3A1-42&version=NIV
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+15%3A21-28&version=NIV
[4] https://www.thoughtco.com/traditional-latin-mass-vs-novus-ordo-542961
[5] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A16&version=ESV
[6] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18%3A18&version=DRA
[7] http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew23:6, also https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23&version=NIV
[8] http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew23:6, at 8.