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Old 12-03-2018, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Salt Lake City
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Maybe because it's hard to picture the Omni-Everything-Creator-Of-All as that guy in the mirror in the morning.

It's easier to imagine Him as "the Force"?
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Old 12-03-2018, 08:08 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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It's easier to imagine Him as "the Force"?
I can't imagine a "Him/It," at all.

If I could, I'd probably believe. Believing is only a step or two from imagining.
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Old 12-03-2018, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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Don't you 2 ever watch Star Trek Next Gen? They not only imagine Entities, they use Special Effects
and make them into something we can see!

An Infinite Being whose consciousness is everywhere...what's so hard? That It's a big 'ball' of Light?
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Old 12-04-2018, 02:16 PM
 
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My understanding is that Adam and Eve, upon eating the apple, changed themselves and humankind forever.
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Old 12-04-2018, 02:18 PM
 
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I have a Christian Scientist friend who says our spirits are perfect, and they pray to get more in tune with their spirit selves, which are perfect, but as human beings they can never be. I may not have phrased that exactly right, but pretty close.
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Old 12-04-2018, 02:50 PM
 
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My understanding is that Adam and Eve, upon eating the apple, changed themselves and humankind forever.
They did that or was god FORCED to do that to them?
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