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ciao aisha , buon ramadan.

well, everything in chinese culture might be seen as a commentary to the i ching.

actually you said that "we are talking of the same god". nevertheless,i'm not going to disvalue syncretistic experiences, as well, incompatibilities can't be denied. i suggest you to take a look at jan assmann's essay "moses the egyptian". he coined a brilliant expression, concerning...

physicists do try to describe truth, and still physics and hebraism are two different things. "to search truth" is too vague to assert that tao and yahweh are the same thing.

be specific, please. which resemblances did you trace between the tao te ching and the torah? as to the "bob dylan issue", i agree with you. the exegeses will draw you up to the text, but can't go further. so, allegory is much more than a reader's elaboration , it emerges from the capacity of...

Everything outflows beyond time. And yet, does anything lay behind the One? Child's question, the taoist answers - not bent over the fields of this greedy God of ours, the "Because".

"tao" means "way", that is the "way" reality is. a conception quite close to the baudelairean "analogie universelle". yahweh instead - even if we interpret it as an allegory of "being" - remains "other" compared to the world , transcendent over the "creation".

i think not. the only thing religions have in common is rejection of death. but perception and relationship with the "unknown" - the most important features - change very much among cultures. for example, the abrahamic god will never be comparable to the tao

indeed the question arises when believers themselves claim any rationality for their faith, that is when they apply measurable concepts as time, or space, or will, or existence - or their own overcoming - to the indemonstrable idea of god. in this case , for example, your argument would be...

the whole , simple point is : if you believe in god in deterministic terms, how do you distinguish between reality and phantasies? i mean, methodologically.