God is creation. God is reality. Accept it that way. Quit praying to make God give you a miracle. Accept life as it is and create with it. Your existence, in consciousness of what is, is the true miracle. That you see things as they are and not as you want them to be is a miracle of consciousness. Consciousness is the awareness of things as they are and the acceptance of things as they are. 
Most people resist and reject parts of reality. Most of Jesus' disciples seemed to have wanted Jesus to be superhuman, the son of God. They wanted Jesus in their concept to show extraordinary powers to come down off the cross.  


Did The Historical Jesus Ever Use The Term God?


Did he? Did Jesus ever use the direct term, God? There is evidence to indicate that we simply do not know. "Our Father, hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come," and so on. This very early Christian prayer may have originated in some form with Jesus because God is not called God in it but is called Father. As far as scholars know, using father as a name for God was Jesus' own innovation and not in use by other teachers, seers or rabbis. Note that Jesus does not say God here, or have us do so.

Is is entirely possible that one of the spiritual tensions that Jesus created with his many followers was his lack of the use of the term, God, the Unspeakable, but the substituted use of other terms for God. When Jesus was gone due to death the tension would be unbearable and the disciples would have to call Jesus God, the closest equivalents being, Son of God, or Messiah.  

Now at last humans had a direct physical example of God as a human being. Now, no longer was man made in the image of God. God had become fully human, and so God was now made in the image of man, Crucified Man. The crucifixion itself did and did not lead to the resurrection experience. The Crucified Man now became a symbol of the Crucified God. God is now caught on the cross as man. Ecce Homo, applied to the cross: "Behold the man!" God is now man. God is no imprisoned in what there is no escape from, The Cross.

Jung has done an excellent analysis of this archetypal shift in his brilliant book, "Answer To Job ", though there he did not analyze the historical Jesus elements which we do here. Jung preferred to stay with the Christ archetype in his psychology and analysis. He indicated this in a personal conversation with my teacher, Dr. Elizabeth Howes, and would always enquire how the historical Jesus was doing, indicating his support for her ongoing work. 


Did Jesus Ever Define God?


Back to Jesus! He never defined God. He may never have used the term, God, directly in his own discourses. Another thing the historical Jesus did was use many substitute words for what his listeners would recognize as talking about God. But a fish as God? "Our Fish, who art in the oceans?" Is this not going too far? Not at all! Jesus gives a parable teaching in the gospel of Thomas about a fisherman who hauled in a large catch of fish but sorted them out, took only the biggest fish for himself, and threw the rest back into the sea. Yes, Jesus taught about the nature of God and human together, but he never defined theologically what God meant, and maybe never used the term itself.  

What is the one thing that an enlightened human being is to most take to in life? Not life itself? No, take that which sustains life and which comes to you as the Greatest Value. Fish in the sea of life and from the catch that comes your way, don't try and keep everything. Take only the one thing essential to your day. You define what that is. Here, Jesus represents it in a fishing metaphor. Jesus does not define God. He enacts God, both in his person and in his teachings. 


The Jesus Teaching, Be Perfect As God Is Perfect


Listen to this Jesus statement. Jesus says, "Be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect." Matthew: 5:48. There is scholar's debate as to the meaning of the word "perfect." Walter Wink points out that "perfect" is not a word in Aramaic or Hebrew, but only in Greek. It has the meaning, such as the perfection achieved esthetically in making a Greek vase. Other possible meanings for the word from Jewish languages of the time include, whole, complete, finished, entire, without blemish. The original Greek word used is teleios. Jung points us to the teleological principle, that there is an individuating force in the deeper psyche that if we follow this we realize our own true nature. Could this be more Jesus' meaning? We don't have to get hung up on words, do we?

Where Walter Wink of the book," Powers and Principalities ", and other theologians and Bible scholars get hung up is in trying to attribute to themselves an authority about Jesus and God they don't have, or are afraid to have.