Punctum Saliens

According to the psychological standpoint man cannot get outside his own psyche. All experience is therefore psychic experience. This means that it is impossible, experientially, to distinguish between God and the God-image in the psyche.

Edward F. Edinger
The Creation of Consciousness: Jung’s Myth for Modern Man

The Bible, it seems to me, (and especially the O.T.) is all about how God relates to people. And it was recorded by those people to whom God was relating. So, we end up with several layers of mediation: God — absolute truth, unchanging, eternal — interacts with people who mediate this interaction through their psyches — including all their biases, prejudices, preconceptions — and then record this interaction. We then have other people (like you and me) reading about those interactions but we are mediating what we read through our own psyches — including all our biases, prejudices, preconceptions — to arrive at “God” which is really just the God-image in our own psyches (reflected from the God-image in the Biblical writer’s psyches). And some people have the nerve to say that this IS God.

Suppose my daughter, in a few years, starts writing about me in a journal. Then, 20 years later, you read this journal. How close will the picture you have of me be to the “real” me? Now think about someone reading this journal in 2000 or 4000 years! Unlike you, they will have almost nothing in common with my daughter — culturally, socially, technologically. How close will their picture of me be to the “real” me? For them to say that they know me, in any definition of the word, seems almost ludicrous.