Psalm 29: The Path of the Bible

verse 3: The voice of the Lord echoes over the waters. The God of glory thunders, and the Lord strikes the great waters.

To accomplish something, a person must sweat, but God accomplishes everything with His words. In Psalm 29, plants, animals, water, earth, sky, and humans respond to God's voice. God governs nature and the world. God exists above the world and encompasses it. These descriptions portray God hierarchically. In terms of power, God is omnipotent. The Bible condenses all these expressions into one sentence: God is the creator of the universe.

The Creator God is the pinnacle of Christian faith. There are two paths to reach this point. One is from above to below, starting from the reality of God. The other is from below to above. One is the result of human thought or religious projection, leading to the belief in a Creator God. The other rejects human thought projections and attempts to start from the reality of God. This path may seem like the one from above to below, but it cannot escape human thought abstractions. Christians, and theologians alike, choose one of these paths or awkwardly place their feet at a middle ground. They walk their own paths.

Understanding a requested God is easy. However, the reality of God beyond human thought is not easily grasped. Thinking about thought is not enough. Famous philosophers have already introspected the three self: the 'real me,' the 'me who denies reality,' and the 'me who observes the real me and the reality-denying me.' The engine of this structure only revolves in place or contains the illusion of desire and hope for ascension. Isn't this sufficient verification if the result is still the same after spinning this engine for thousands of years?

One thing is certain: the reality of the Creator God is not a projection of human thought containing desires or hopes. The Creator God must be a non-human, all too non-human other. The Creator God walks His path, independent of human understanding. In the end, only the mission and revelation of the Creator God remain. The Bible sees the Creator God as having made contact with the world. The Bible does not know the safe space of religious observation and application. The Bible clings to Jesus and stands on the edge of a cliff. This is how narrow, uncomfortable, and biased the Bible is.