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It's a concept that was created 1000's of years ago. It sprung up from the evolution of the modern human...all we got out of it is what we see today in the form of organized religion. These religions make the claim that god or several gods are responsible for EVERYTHING...the good the bad and the ugly. The only way to reconcile with this god is to obey it and the end result is war, oppression, dividedness, self-righteousness and many untold horrors that occurred and are still occurring today in the name of someone's god.
The world would be much more evolved today without the oppression and violence and the fear the church felt towards the ancient scientists blasphemy towards their god. It most certainly set us back a few hundred years since it took scientists much longer then it should have to get their knowledge out there.
Yes, Every time we evoke agape love within our consciousness we add to our "spiritual body" making it more mature and more ready for our rebirth as Spirit upon our death.
What? I would ask Who, myself.
I'm getting more and more insight...it revolves around Infinite, Eternal, Love beyond
human imagination, Purity, Innocence, Genius all beyond comprehension.
But if I were to make everything around me I see into mirrors...and break them all into tiny pieces...each teeny piece would hold ALL of God within it...as all the other pieces would, also;
Holograms of the 'Whole'...then, I would be getting closer to the magnitude of this Being.
Do you have any holographic bookmarks or stickers, with a face, let's say?
With a razor cut one into 4s....each quarter will have a face on it.
Billions upon billions of bits in this existence..and each contains the Whole...with
Universes of different dimensions, endlessly...each teeny bit of broken mirror.
How could anyone not be in love with such a Divine Genius? (pls don't answer that.)
What? I would ask Who, myself.
I'm getting more and more insight...it revolves around Infinite, Eternal, Love beyond
human imagination, Purity, Innocence, Genius all beyond comprehension.
But if I were to make everything around me I see into mirrors...and break them all into tiny pieces...each teeny piece would hold ALL of God within it...as all the other pieces would, also;
Holograms of the 'Whole'...then, I would be getting closer to the magnitude of this Being.
Do you have any holographic bookmarks or stickers, with a face, let's say?
With a razor cut one into 4s....each quarter will have a face on it.
Billions upon billions of bits in this existence..and each contains the Whole...with
Universes of different dimensions, endlessly...each teeny bit of broken mirror.
How could anyone not be in love with such a Divine Genius? (pls don't answer that.)
Yes and...
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Originally Posted by TroutDude
We don't know.
It doesn't know.
It's in its infancy.*
<snipped>
yes.
I don't think you meant this the way I'm taking it Trout, but I think MissH's description and yours go hand in hand. And I don't think God will ever stop growing.
Yes, the Holy Spirit of Agape love.
Yes, Every time we evoke agape love within our consciousness we add to our "spiritual body" making it more mature and more ready for our rebirth as Spirit upon our death.
Which is really odd that Jesus took the time and went to all the trouble to come here in shoe leather, just to tell us we must be born again, when heck, He could have just waited to tell us that once we were spirit , ie. dead, when it REALLY mattered. Peace
The first thing that popped into my head was a scene from the movie "Dead Poets Society."
It was the scene in the classroom after Robin Williams (his character) was ousted from the school and a more traditional, straight-laced, and infernally boring replacement teacher was brought in.
When it was discovered that Robin Williams had had his students rip a bunch of pages out of the textbook, the replacement teacher decided to start the course all over again ... and thus he began with those words that exuded boredom, yawns, and intellectual misery:
"What is poetry ..."
But to answer the OP's question, God could be anything anyone wants it to be. Of course, that doesn't make it true ... but people believe in the weirdest things with no thought whatever to whether it actually makes sense.
It's actually easier to answer what God is NOT -- which poses a bit of snarky irony.
Because it's damn near a certitude that what the vast majority of people call "God" is NOT God.
If God exists, he (I'm using male pronouns just for comprehension ease so don't throw any rotten eggs) would be far more than the primitive, one-dimensional "gods" found in the world's major holy books.
God would not be vain, narcissistic, jealous, and perpetually angry -- God would not be driven by ego, issuing such demands as "worship me" and "love me" and "put me first."
God would not play mind games with Abraham, allow Satan to torture Job for the sake of a bet, send bears to rip apart half a hundred children, accept the blood sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, flood the earth in an act of genocidal rage, murder the first born of Egypt just to coerse "Pharaoh" to let the Hebrews go, or tell his followers like Joshua to wage an aggressive war just to grab land -- and to butcher every last man, woman, child, baby, and animal in over a dozen different cities.
No, a real God would never do those things -- would never act like a corrupted human being with unlimited power.
A real God would find eternal torture as abhorrant as I do and would never even consider that for a punishment -- especially as punishment for failing to worship him. In fact, a real God would almost certainly take himself out of the equation entirely and simply tell the word to be the best person you can, abide by these few simple rules, and treat your fellow human beings well. Worshiping him, praising him, loving him, joining his religion -- none of that would matter to a real God. Only our actions would matter, not whether or not we spend our lives putting him first and obeying hundreds of silly rules.
A real God would never have the concept of sin. There would be right and wrong, but only as it pertains to how we treat each other, not how we treat God.
Yeah, I could go on at length about what God isn't -- because a REAL God would be indescribeable with any human language. A real God would be an experience unique to itself and thus impossible to relate to anyone. Except we wouldn't have to because we would ALL know his existence and we would ALL experience it.
Unlike the "fake" Gods who apparently pick and choose arbitrarily who gets to have an "experience" and who gets left out in the cold.
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