Why an Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient God?
I feel it necessary at the outset of this discussion to impress upon you that the only conception of a higher power that I am convicted of, and which I derive from the Old Testament book of Genesis, is that there is a directing intelligence in this universe and that man was created by that intelligence in the likeness of it. You will note that I did not say God or Image. We are aware that translators have dimmed and obscured the exact meanings of the original scribes whom we have been taught to regard as “God Inspired”. Therefore I use the more modern words which we more clearly understand. I said I am convicted. How have I become convicted? What is my conviction? First, I became convicted through desire, no doubt implanted when I was an unreasoning child, and second, through need as a member of AA desiring to stay sober, and thirdly, through reasoning satisfactory to me as an adult. I am sure that most of us have experienced a period in our lives in which, while not actively questioni
