"I am who am" or "I am that I am," though I gather that it literally means something like "I will be that I will be."It is certainly a mysterious utterance and has always seemed to me rather a sophisticated notion for some tribes wandering the desert all those many years ago to have hit upon. I presume it is what inspired the theologian Paul Tillich to define God as "the ground of being."
But what occurred to me was that there might be another and perhaps even better way of interpreting it. Perhaps God is the ground, not of being, but of identity. What's the difference?
from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Patterns and forms are real
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