That is a great question to ask anyone! The answers you get will tell you if the one with whom you are conversing even believes there is a God, and if that person does believe there is a God, how he/she thinks about God. By how a person thinks about God, we don’t mean all of the specific details that might surface in the conversation, but the larger context, or framework, of thoughts about God.

The question, when posed, will certainly result in all sorts of details, or characteristics about God. That’s a given – the question will draw them out. The details will always provide the larger framework of thought from which they come, or how a person thinks about God. The descriptions of God that surface in such discussions most likely indicate two main categories of thought, or mental paradigms.

The first of those reveals the tendency of picturing God being like us, just BIGGER. After all, we are created in the image of God, therefore it’s quite logical to think of God that way – isn’t it?

The second way of picturing God is in terms of who He has revealed himself to be through the scriptures.

It’s probably a fair assumption to say that for most, if not all of us who call ourselves Christians/believers/Christ followers (pick your favorite term), our thoughts of God are a combination of the two. The ratio between thoughts of God as a ‘BIGGER us’ and the revealed God of scripture will speak volumes.

Food for thought on a Friday morning………