{"id":235440,"date":"2026-04-17T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-god-john-polkinghorne"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:04:41","slug":"what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-god-john-polkinghorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-god-john-polkinghorne","title":{"rendered":"What does it Feel Like to be God? | John Polkinghorne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YdkSu079hcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>God is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. But what is God\u2019s private mental life like? Can we reach in to appreciate God as a supreme being? It may seem absurd, or arrogant, for finite human beings to strive to imagine what an infinite God is like and even what God may feel like privately and inside. But that is what we do.<\/p>\n<p>John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Big Questions About God playlist:<br \/> \u2022 Big Questions About God \u2014 Closer To Truth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/closertotruthtv\">@closertotruthtv<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.podbean.com\">https:\/\/closertotruth.podbean.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get access to over 5,000 videos by signing up for a free Closer To Truth membership:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-god-john-polkinghorne\">Continue reading \u201cWhat does it Feel Like to be God? | John Polkinghorne\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. But what is God\u2019s private mental life like? Can we reach in to appreciate God as a supreme being? It may seem absurd, or arrogant, for finite human beings to strive to imagine what an infinite God is like and even what God may feel like privately [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}