Professor Richard Rubenstein of Florida State University offered this analogy of our relationship with God: God is the ocean and we are the waves. In some sense, each wave has its moment in which it is indistinguishable as a different entity. Nevertheless, no wave is entirely distinct from the ocean which is its essence. The waves are surface manifestations of the ocean. Our knowledge of the ocean is largely dependent on the way it manifests itself in the waves.
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