Jean-Luc Marion writes about this from the theo-philosophical perspective as well. Essentially, we all are victim to creating God as an idol, and even the use of the word God an individual or community uses is not God but xgodx (he actually strikes it through with an x).

As a metaphor, if God is always culturally bond, he will always be incarnate in community via the host culture. So, what then is the correlation for us freeing ourselves from ourselves to seeing YHWH more fully? Is that even possible? Is our individuality (slowly giving way to participatory and communally cultural ways of seeing the self) possible to step outside of to understand God? Or do others who are more communal and incarnate YHWH as the bride of Christ our only mirror?

Thanks so much post; we need these conversations…

So much ground to be plowed in God’s Garden!! What a blessing it is for me to pull a plow alongside with Christians who know the Mercy and Grace that is God. Thanks for your post!!