I AM

I AM : M. M. Ninan
only have apologetics for what we believe. We can justify but not
prove the existence of God.
So in the Statement “I am that I am”, God refuses to give an
explanation of himself, simply because God is beyond reason. Out
of this ambiguity arise the various philosophical and religious
traditions. In India all these forms are equally respected from the
Advaitic (Absolute oneness = Only god is reality) and Dvaitic
(dual absolutes= both Brahman and Prakriti are absolutes) to
Sankhya (Materialistic = only matter is real)
2. Second God himself being uncreated cannot have inherent
properties or character, unless God
himself is a community. An isolated
absolute one God cannot exist - however
we define existence. God internally is a
multiple personality. This is where the
Trinitarian aspect of God comes in. This
subject area is vast enough to merit a
separate treatise.
3. God can be known by us only through his actions.
God was saying to Moses, that you cannot
understand me as I am. You can know me
only through my actions. You can know
me through my interaction with people,
and through my actions in history. You
come to me. You experience me.
Experience God in history, as God who
YHVH ELOHIM
The Lord Gods
We can know God only
through His actions.
acts through history. Thus the Bible is a revelation of God, because
it is the history of a nation which tells us how God acts through
people - how God transformed the lives of those who committed
themselves to him; how God dealt with people who refuse to
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