Michelle Breland: Personal Topic (1)

I found the discussion that followed the viewing of Decalogue I and V to be very interesting. Even though we have covered [to an extent] the mysteriousness of God, I felt like I had an epiphany when Dr. Redick mentioned that “God is mystery” as opposed to God is mysterious. Given what we have learned at this point in the class, that statement made sense but only on the surface. My mind kept going to the semantics of the words: God, life and mystery. What if the word God, and all that it encompasses, is just a synonym for life and mystery. It is not a higher power or something divine; it is just a word that we created to make sense of life and all of the things that we do not understand about it.