‘One God’ - Religion
Sr Rose Mary Kinne OP; Hassal Grove, NSW; Australia; 3/2/08; The Catholic Weekly
There have been a number of letters (Letters, CW Dec-Jan) trying to define ‘God’. Jews, Christians and Muslims believe in One God. Each faith affirms there is no other God. This belief is attested in each faith’s sacred books and in their traditions.
Christians differ from Jews and Muslims in the way they see Jesus Christ - Son of the Father, the one who promised the Holy Spirit, one who is truly man and truly God. Most Christians believe in a Trinitarian God but have struggled for 2000 years, trying to understand what ‘the Trinity’ means. The Apostles and the New Testament writers did not use this term.They lived the reality, as we try to do today.
St Thomas Aquinas reminds us that God is mystery - greater than, more than, beyond what our words can describe. Love of God and love of neighbour, including ‘the enemy’, is where we find God. We are united with Jews and Muslims in our beliefs in one God and. the experience of the love that God has for us and we for God. We differ in the concepts we have of God.