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Date Posted: 18:18:45 06/28/18 Thu
Author: Carlo G. Soldevilla
Subject: ‘Digong or His Critics?’ by Carlo G. Soldevilla

‘Digong or His Critics?’ - I don’t know if this would be the better title for the poem or Free Verse I wrote below.

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My Poem with the Longest Title --
Who Has Deeper Understanding of G-d and Who Has Deeper Understanding of Faith? Who Has Faith in G-d? Digong or His Critics?

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Who Has Deeper Understanding of G-d and Who Has Deeper Understanding of Faith? Who Has Faith in G-d? Digong or His Critics?
by Carlo G. Soldevilla
Written on June 28, 2018

What had G-d been thinking of on the day Digong gave a remark that G-d is stupid (pertaining on the creation story)?

Shocked? Surprised? Blasphemed?
Was he just listening about the statement of Digong and did not mind the idea of being called stupid?

Man seems to react right away.. more than G-d? Maybe, they are more knowledgeable than G-d?

Here comes the Christian belief of triune: G-d the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 3-in-1 like coffee. Or to be more specific and for the sake of analogy, some gets the egg as an example. It has egg yolk, egg white and the egg shell, and to be called an egg it must be one—inseparable.

Some people think it’s wiser to make the triangle as a good analogy. The triangle is composed of three segments having equal sizes, forming inside it three (3) 60-degree angles.

Based on the Jewish understanding of G-d, ‘There is one G-d’ can be simply described by a single day (24 hours) where you cannot separate the 12 hours for day time and 12 hours for night time. It must be 24 hours, not less; not more.

There’s that Hebrew word ‘echad’ (one) which can also be described by marital union--inseparable. ‘What G-d has joined together, let no man put asunder’ –The bible.

Going back to faith, I always have this in mind: The act or action which justifies faith. ‘Faith without action is dead’ is a nice bible memory verse.
Try to imagine you’re blindfolded,, about -face to the one telling you to sit. You cannot see and the one telling you to sit tells you that there’s a chair right there at your back to catch or hold you when you sit, and that while you’re standing, he/she is telling you to sit. Then you sit as told, having that ‘faith’ that the chair is strong enough to support you.

For my part, I describe faith this way..that even without the chair, if G-d tells you to sit, you will sit. Your faith is not on the chair (on how strong or weak it is) but on the one telling you to sit, and your faith is justified by your act of sitting, after being told to sit. Remember Abraham? His hand held the knife and was raised high, leading to the act of sacrificing his son, Isaac and that’s where G-d intervened (stopping Abraham to do the act of sacrificing by killing his son as G-d told him to). Even without the chair, if you believe on the one telling or commanding you to sit, you will sit. Your faith is on the one telling you what to do.

Finally, these are my three (3) questions:

Who has deeper understanding of G-d and Who has deeper understanding of faith? Who has faith in G-d? Digong or his critics?

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