Just think what an awesome web site it could be! The ultimate epiphany. God presents God in virtual reality: the words of Scripture, the magnificent artwork, the great theological debates, the glorious music. And think of all the links. God the Spirit would have to link to not only all the communities of worship but to every single human being created in God's image and to all of creation as well. No person and no thing could be left out or God would not be God.
Best of all, we could finally understand God. Oh, it would take forever, but it would all be there if God revealed God's self on the World Wide Web. We could even look at God's "source document" and find out how God did it all.
That's what fascinates me about web pages: you can find out how they work. I always want to know how things work. As a child I liked to take apart toys and put them together in new ways to do new things. I like figuring it out -- how a machine works, why people act the way they do, how certain ‘facts' are proved. I like understanding how to change things -- how to teach a dog a trick, how to make a web page a new color, how to turn water into wine (I haven't got that one yet!). I was absurdly excited when I figured out how to put animated hamsters on my web page. I want to understand. Most of all I want to understand God -- I want to know how God works.
If God had a web page, we could figure it all out. We would know God. Knowledge is power. If we understood fully, we'd be in control. . . . Ah! there's the hitch. There's the sin. If we are in control of God, then it's not God we are dealing with. God is always more than we can understand, just beyond our grasp. God is intimately close and at the same time a mystery beyond us, so we are always filled with longing. But God wants to be known by us, so God reveals God's self to us:
When God chose to reveal God's self, God didn't send an understandable and controllable source of information, God sent the mystery of a human person. To know God is not to understand and control God, but to be in a personal relationship with God. God's Epiphany is not a web page, but a person.
The Epiphany -- God manifesting God's self in Jesus -- is not about understanding how God works. It is about love. The way to know God is to love. Go, search that one out. But don't look on the Internet. Look for Christ's image in each person you meet. The epiphany is there, waiting to be known in love.