Stopping to Think

Over at the Southern Evangelical Seminary blog, my good friend Levi Kilian (who has guest blogged here before ) has a piece entitled God and Morgan Freeman. Head on over and give it a read. It's a little lengthy and somewhat dense, but very worth your time. When we speak about God, is the question, "Who is God?" an appropriate place to begin? From Levi's article: [A]s important as the question “Who is God?” is, before we can answer it we must first ask the question “Does God exist?” If we don’t deal with the question of God’s existence, then there is no God to know about in the first place. Asking “Who is God?” presupposes that he exists. If we can know that God exists, then we can begin to delimit Who he is—i.e. whether he is the God or gods of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. Are all truth claims equal? Could it simply be possible that all religions are true in their own way?  Contrary to what Freeman implies in his method, not every religion ...