Finding God : Ten Jewish Responses Finding God is a book about ten different viewpoints on the belief of a god in our religion. Each one of them believes that there is only one god (save Kaplan, who had a terrific viewpoint I enjoyed very much, and Buber borderline). To me that was unfortunate, because though it was an extremely novel approach, I felt it to be slightly close minded to not select any completely atheist (again Kaplan came close) responses, in one of the few religions that has a large atheist active population. But as that was not a subject addressed, I will not go into it. The first opinion in the book was that of the bible. According to the bible god indeed exists and is one. It goes further to state angels exist. It gives god a name, that being yud hey vavh hey. It never describes god though it speaks of seeing or meeting god in some texts. It says that the world was created and is controlled by god. According to it God answers one’s prayer. Finally it tries to explain evil by simply saying it is beyond our comprehension, which to me is a play on the Christian saying The Lord works in mysterious ways to explain anything they cant explain that makes their religion obsolete. The second opinion is that of the rabbis. It is very reminiscent of the bible, except it says that we cannot know god. Other than that it is almost entirely the same opinion. The third opinion is Philo Judaeus‘s, or spiritual monotheism. It believes god is a spirit or an intelligence, or in other words a soul. It believes god can exist but cannot be described by humans. It also believe prayer is talking about god, not talking too god. It does not say god has complete power, rather humanity brought things upon itself and must solve them itself, which I find to be a nice concept. The fourth opinion is that of Maimonides, or the neo aristotelianism belief. It believes god is pure intelligence and cannot be called on earth, as language on earth is not expansive enough.
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