I've looked it up in Dictionaries and even looked at atheist texts
and it looks like God is supernatural by definition. That is my best take on it.
So if you know that me get it all wrong
then please help me understand what
is the better way to explain how God is supernatural?
Here is the background. 2013 I live in Sweden and I saw this TV series
"What is religion?" by Erik Sandstrom.
I saw this TV series in Swedish so it would be beyond me
to translate to English. I barely can express myself in English
and to translate somebody else feels very demanding.
I don't want him to get mistranslated and misunderstood.
So the following is my understanding of what he says
and not word for word his own thought so hope you can read
the text with that in mind.
Erik Sandstrom works for Swedish Television but is a freelancer most likely.
He traveled the world in one year and made numerous interviews
and then put together a TVseries about "What is religion" and
from the first episode I try to retell his conclusion from that
one year journey he did.
Background. He was and still is atheist
but he says that he had to rethink his view
on religion. "Religion works every time"
That surprised him and he try to understand why it works.
He says "religion works when the believer put their doubt aside
and decide that what the religion teach is true to them. And that
this is so for all religions. The important thing is that the believer
decide on that it is true and then act on that faith in their religion
then it works for them. Every time. "
Not word for word but my best take on what he really said.
I am a former atheist myself and I am not a theist and not agnostic
I am somewhere in between or past the dichotomy of theism/atheism.
I find his words to be very true. All my experience support his take on it.
Here is my own words trying to summarize this view.
the following words is me trying to get how it works
for a true believer in God. I express my understanding
I don't believe it like that but I think it is how it works if one believe?
What I like to ask as many believers as possible.As a believer in God I am committed to
the hard to fake counter intuitive faith
that God is supernatural by definition of
religious traditions and as an act of faith
I will cooperate with like minded friends
for to spread that interpretation as the truth.
Can you agree with this part?
"God is supernatural by definition of religious traditions"
Maybe the grammar or logic is false? Can you help me
to get it right?
Now I did try to find out if it is like I say. I did a lot of reading
of what supernatural is supposed to be on atheist sites.
Richard Carrier wrote a whole book about his take on it
and Austin Klein on atheism.about.com also try to explain
and I looked at dictionaries too.
so now I ask you as a true believer in God. Can you agree?
In what other way can God be supernatural
than by faith and definition alone?
An important reason I ask is that I do want to find myself
a decent religion to believe in and to find words for what it is
that one commit to and thus I want to get your view and experience.