God is not competing with the world, as was made evident when he took on human form, Barron explained.
“God and a creature come together in such a way that neither one is compromised. How’s that possible? It’s possible only if God is not a competitive being among many,” he said.
“God is the sheer act of ‘to be’ itself,” he proclaimed.
Barron said that the closer God comes to humanity, “the more alive we are, the more ourselves we are.”
Barron pointed to the prophet Moses’ encounter with God in the burning bush as an example.
“How does Moses see God but in this great image of the burning bush, which is on fire but not consumed? The closer God gets to creation, the more luminous and…
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