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Because the blatant contradictions and inconsistencies within their beliefs about God are so obvious that they cannot bear to contemplate them. It is better and safer to ignore them and claim God's way are not our ways or God works in mysterious ways and other such excuses.
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Originally Posted by Tzaphkiel
there are no inconsistencies with God, because God is one and God is unity.
if someone sees "contradictions and inconsistencies" then their "beliefs about God" are the problem.
Glad that you agree with me. Contradictory and inconsistent beliefs ABOUT God ARE the problem. For a Christian, God IS agape love according to Jesus. That means that anything contradictory or inconsistent with agape love can NOT be from God or Jesus.
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There is no place where God is not.
Period. Full stop.
If you can't see God in everything, then your "beliefs about God" are problematic.
Well, I cannot see agape love in bashing babies' heads on rocks or gutting pregnant women with swords or gassing or machine-gunning millions in a holocaust, so I can NOT see Christ's God in everything. YMMV.
Glad that you agree with me. Contradictory and inconsistent beliefs ABOUT God ARE the problem. For a Christian, God IS agape love according to Jesus. That means that anything contradictory or inconsistent with agape love can NOT be from God or Jesus. Well, I cannot see agape love in bashing babies' heads on rocks or gutting pregnant women with swords or gassing or machine-gunning millions in a holocaust, so I can NOT see Christ's God in everything. YMMV.
we are not in agreement.
by your own admission, you are not able to see God in everything. you claim there are places where God is not. therefore you deny the one-ness and unity of God. you are mired in duality. you claim there is something other than God. therefore you deny God.
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Glad that you agree with me. Contradictory and inconsistent beliefs ABOUT God ARE the problem. For a Christian, God IS agape love according to Jesus. That means that anything contradictory or inconsistent with agape love can NOT be from God or Jesus. Well, I cannot see agape love in bashing babies' heads on rocks or gutting pregnant women with swords or gassing or machine-gunning millions in a holocaust, so I can NOT see Christ's God in everything. YMMV.
The post of yours above and the post of yours beliw show clearly the "contradiction and inconsistency" in your beliefs. You've painted yourself into a corner.
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
Since God IS consciousness, He certainly has a Will. But everything that exists is NOT willful. Everything is part of God. To use the analogy to our own existence compared to the cells that comprise it, none of the cells and biota that comprise us are part of our Will. They are just part of our Being. It is no different with God. Everything exists because God exists and is part and parcel of Him. However, I believe our consciousness is a special part of God's Will because we reproduce His consciousness (or at least that is what we are supposed to do). That is why it is so important to produce love in our consciousness because God IS love. YMMV.
The post of yours above and the post of yours beliw show clearly the "contradiction and inconsistency" in your beliefs. You've painted yourself into a corner.
We can not agree because you accept a very brutal God and I do not. Everything that exists is part of God's BEING, but everything that exists is NOT by the WILL of God - just as everything in your body exists because of your BEING but not everything is the result of your Will.
We can not agree because you accept a very brutal God and I do not. Everything that exists is part of God's BEING, but everything that exists is NOT by the WILL of God - just as everything in your body exists because of your BEING but not everything is the result of your Will.
You see brutal.
I do not.
I see God in everything.
You do not.
I see the infinite caring and wisdom and comfort of God in everything.
You see brutality.
That's the difference.
God is not brutal.
Just you.
You see what is in your heart reflected back at you. A clear heart like a clear lake reflects beauty. A disturbed troubled heart of stirred up mud clouds all beauty.and only the mud is seen. You see brutality because that is what you carry in your heart.
Everything that exists is part of God's BEING, but everything that exists is NOT by the WILL of God - just as everything in your body exists because of your BEING but not everything is the result of your Will.
Except, it is.
Everything in your body and your life and your world exists because you chose it. It is a result of your intent desre thought words and feeling
You are responsible. You chose it. Orherwise it would not be there.
That is the power of Creation. Creation by God. Creation by us learning to responsibly use the free will given us.
What you focus on you become. Every time you perseverate on graphic violence (it seems to be one of your favorite foods) that is what you are creating on the planet and that is what you are literally growing in your mind and in your life and in your body.
Last edited by Tzaphkiel; 11-27-2017 at 01:03 PM..
Let's take a closer look at what you were quoting Mystic as seeing "brutal:" "Well, I cannot see agape love in bashing babies' heads on rocks or gutting pregnant women with swords or gassing or machine-gunning millions in a holocaust, so I can NOT see Christ's God in everything."
Frankly, I'm disturbed that you DON'T see "brutal."
So the question is ... which of you is doing this? And which of you is projecting that the other is doing this?
There are clearly good, beautiful, exalting things in the world as well as bad, ugly, debasing things.
By acknowledging unpleasantness no one is suggesting there is nothing good; by acknowledging the good one does not negate the bad.
God is generally presented to us as the author of all that is good and right with the world, but clearly and unambiguously embraces the unseemly and even acknowledges the authorship thereof.
If "god is in everything" then it seems the least you can do is acknowledge that god is not 100% good, that the mixed bag of our existence reflects the mixed bag of god's character.
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