Recently during an everyday conversation with one of my British Indian customers I asked him if he was “religious“. His wife was a practicing Hindu but his reply was something like ‘No but I would like to believe that there is a God although somehow we all want to prove it, and yet we can’t can we’.

That position is neither uncommon nor is it new. Two thousand years ago a guy called Paul from Tarsus, Paul the Apostle, whilst he was in Athens saw amongst all the other shrines of the Greek gods, a shrine to “the Unknown God“. He then had the audacity to stand up in the city at the centre of world learning, at Mars Hill, the Areopagus, and give a talk about that Unknown God that they all knew must exist. Within that speech Paul used quotes from two Greek poets. Whilst we today almost certainly wouldn’t recognise that, the Greeks of the day certainly would have recognised Paul’s quotes.

 My point is that here we see Paul being very relevant to his audience when he’d got something new to show them. He didn’t use a PA system to ram his Jewish scriptures down the throats of Greek shoppers in the market places of Athens but went about his business the Greek way and using the Greeks own poets.
Fortunately today there’s no conversion by the sword here but we’ve all had the JW’s knocking on our door haven’t we forcing pamphlets into our faces at the most inconvenient time, and similarly I bet we’ve all heard the preacher in our marketplace telling us to “turn or burn” (today they mean in Hell, not at the Catholic stakes…), and when I was a young lad at primary school lots of people also told me that Jesus saves. I also learned though that Moses scored on the rebound but the only thing relevant to me was that I was looking for someone to save me – from the playground bullies.… All this stuff is just not relevant to peoples lives yet some of the older generation still wonder why churches are emptying. In the past and before I thought for myself I too have been guilty of preaching largely irrelevant messages to people, quoting Bible passages that mean virtually nothing to someone unfamiliar with those ideas.

Nowadays I realise that whenever anyone has something new to bring to anyone, we have to be careful how we go about it, and even when my dear wife wants to show me something important or new, she knows some ways are better than others to get the point across! And similarly today, any strange message a preacher needs to share must be relevant to peoples lives – having the gift of the gab and disturbing people in town centres with loud microphones just doesn’t cut it does it, especially in this day and age when thanks to our media outlets, Hollywood etc there is so much ridicule, hostility and preconceived ideas about this subject and that’s one reason why I set up this site and hopefully in this section here you will find something that’s slightly more relevant to us living in 2024,

Whether your a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew atheist or anything else I could write here, could I encourage you to ask questions and start to think for yourself. I grew up in a Christian environment and recited the Lord’s Prayer at school every day but it was all archaic, anachronistic, and largely irrelevant stuff that just didn’t make sense. But, like the gentleman I mentioned at the start, even after I ditched all this when I left school there was still an ‘Unknown God’ in my life and eventually I started to ask questions.

I started to go to a church again later in life because my parents were Christians. You probably go to a Mosque because your parents are Islamic etc etc. But after a while I started to think and ask myself does what I hear in church match with the reality of life, can I really believe all those things that I was also taught when I was young, especially now as an adult I see all the mismatch and hypocrisy? And does all this religious tension and squabbling whose rule book is better really help us all get along together? Do we really live out what we believe? And DO WE REALLY LOVE OUR NEIGHBOURS? I questioned my whole supposedly Christian upbringing and discovered the modern religious version of supposed Christianity is nothing more than slavery to someone’s rule book. In fact that’s all any religion is really, different religion, slightly different rule book, do you agree? And I would encourage you to question your religion, or your atheism. Don’t just be like a sheep and follow the crowd. Yes, I’ve had to leave behind many friendships when people think I’ve lost the plot but hey, come on, I’ve got a brain and we really owe it to ourselves to use it and start to think for ourselves.

In my line of work I meet many people from such diverse backgrounds. We maybe only meet once a year but I have many great chats with many people from all faiths and all walks of life. As I learn more and more from these chats, as time goes by there will be more articles written on here maybe more relevant to your specific faith or your worldview, and just like Paul was relevant to the Greeks as he was sharing with them about this “Unknown God“, it is my aim to follow this man’s example.

That great Unknown God is probably unknown because of our stubborn and stiff necked attitudes but in many cases, mine included, it’s simply because we were indoctrinated with false teaching from birth and then we go on to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Come on, let’s all do a bit of thinking!

Here’s just one very genuine question that I asked myself, and which I would like to ask all Muslims, not to provoke, but because I’m genuinely curious. If Mohammed came several hundred years after Jesus with a new revelation, logically, shouldn’t we all be Mormons now because Joseph Smith apparently came up with a new updated revelation in the 1800s? Can you seriously tell me what the difference is between Mohammed updating Jesus and then Joseph Smith updating Mohammed? There may be a good answer, and we all need answers don’t we but my point is that I’m just encouraging people to THINK.

There’s no wonder the whole world is so miserable where everybody wants to fight everybody else, if not with their swords then with their doctrines. With this Unknown God though, there are no rules, there is no religion – but there is relationship. The Unknown God wants to know us and to be known by us. The Unknown God wants to become known as Father and wants us to realise we can all be sons, not sons of/from an imperfect earthly father/family but sons of God. The Unknown God is not interested in any religious behaviour, calls to prayer five times a day, turning up for Church Service at 10am on Sundays, confession once a week or any other liturgical nonsense.
He simply wants your heart, and He wants to give you His. He wants to love you, guide you and treat you just as any good father would daily treat his son and daughter. You see the Unknown God is love and…..love is a freewill choice. The Unknown God chose to invite us, will we choose Him? And when we KNOW we are loved by God we WILL love others, we don’t need telling to. Do you love your neighbour? Wouldn’t this world be a better place if we all did?

There is an introduction to this Unknown God on any of the previous three pages in this section, I do hope that if he is unknown to you that you make the choice to check out this invitation to meet him. He doesn’t want to remain unknown to you.