They have chosen instead to define him, ignore him, and keep him in his place. To believe in God does not mean that we rest on a definition. Or as Anne Lamott articulates, “The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is certainty.”7 In the story of creation, Adam was given power to name all of the earth’s living creatures; thus it was assumed in the ancient world that when you named something, you then had power over it. This concept is one of the earliest signs that the God of the Hebrews, the God of