“You should have seen it! It will go down as epic in Church ball.”
“I was THERE and it was pedestrian, man.”
“WHAT?! No way. Everyone had the jaw on the ground!”
“You’re full of exaggerations today.”
“If there’s anything that can’t be exaggerated, it’s what happened on the court.”
“Yeah, right. You can exaggerate all the time about your game. But you can’t exaggerate the nature of God.”
“Whoa, big change of subject. You trying to get heavy on me again?”
“Well your head is big right now, it can fit big ideas, can’t it?”
“Hah. Okay, shoot.”
“Well, to exaggerate is to talk it up bigger than it is, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, it’s impossible to do that with God. There isn’t anything even imaginably better.”
“You mean better for us, right?”
“No, I mean for anyone, anywhere.”
“Well then why do we care?”
“Because it’s awesome. Listen, what’s better, to have sinned, or to have never sinned at all?”
“To have never sinned.”
“What’s more moral than never having sinned?”
“I don’t know.”
“Mmm hmm. OK, so what’s better, to know everything or to know only something?”
“To know everything.”
“Can you have a greater knowledge than the knowledge of everything?”
“No.”
“Mmm hmm. Ok, better to have all power, or to have only some power?”
“All.”
“Can you have greater power than all power?”
“No. This is stupid, man.”
“That’s my point. It’s obvious that there’s nothing more moral than never having sinned, that there isn’t a greater knowledge than the knowledge of everything, and that there isn’t a greater power than all power.”
“So?”
“So you can’t exaggerate when there’s nothing left to exaggerate with.”
“And… ?”
“Well, the God of the Bible is called the ‘Most High’. If you said there was a higher God than him, he’d have to be Kinda High, not Most High.”
“Are you bashing my religion, man?”
“Maybe. I mean, I can obviously exaggerate your god.”
“What? How?”
“Well, what if I said that your god never sinned?”
“You’d only be speculating.”
“Mmm hmm. And what if I said your god always knew everything?”
“You’d be wrong. He had to learn to become a god just like all the other gods. But that’s deep man. It doesn’t concern my salvation.”
“And what if I said your god always had all power?”
“You’d be right.”
“Really?”
“Sure.”
“Did he create the planet his spirit-grandfather was born on? Wasn’t he in spirit-baby-diapers or something?”
“Oh gosh, you always bring that up. Here we go into bashing mode again.”
“Dude, you know me, I love you bro.”
“Yeah, but I hate it when you disrespect my religion.”
“Well, at least hear me on this. If you tried to disrespect my God by exaggerating him, you couldn’t. You couldn’t even if you tried. And I mean tried hard. It’s not even possible with my God. He is the Un-exaggeratable Most High.”
“Fancy name.”
“But if someone tried to bash your god, they’d have an easy time, because it’s easy to think of a God greater than yours.”
“Dude…”
“OK, I’ll stop now. But just think about it, OK?”
“Whatever. I guess.”
“Think about it next time you exaggerate your game. I AM watching the same game, you know!
“But not really. You have to be on court to get the full effect.”
“Mmm hmm!”