Questions for God

maguru wrote: There is the reality of the opposites, chaos, fear and darkness. Is god not the source of those also?

No, that's of the ego.

maguru wrote: If we all have personal gods who loves and knows us better than we do ourselves, where would that leave us? Pretty much where we are now and have been for thousands of years. Arguing over the real god. Doh!

Not exactly. If we are all separate beings then a single God can have a personal relationship with all of us. God would just explain it to us so we wouldn't argue. If it is as I believe that we are all one in Spirit, and Spirit is the only true reality then there are no divisions.

xcerca wrote: I think the simple answer to this is that there is no such thing as God in the Anthropomorphized since, making God into a "Man" that "Lives" "In" "The Heavens". This may be someone elses understanding of God, and as someone elses it is subject to always being distant from you, the same way that every other God man has created over the Millennia eludes us.

If you understand God as the infinite experience of infinite dimensionality, and all of the energy it contains, then "God" is right there in front of you, inside you, "God", "Created" "You".

The reality of it is that we are all part of this Unified field, and as a metaphor, "You are a drop of water in an ocean, but is all the ocean is, is drops of water"

The thing that eludes us I think is when other people Anthropomorphize "God" , and then you cannot find that literary version.

Check this out and see if it resonates - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

I believe this is exactly what we do. We project our personal characteristics onto others, in this case god but we do it with everything. This is where the concept of ego comes into play. An egotistical observation is one of the projected self from within one's own little world. Literally everything is a reflection of some aspect of our character.

So my version of god is very similar to yours. It's all or nothing for me. This is a part of my character reflecting back from my image of god. I also don't personally believe there can be nothing. Nothing cannot be known, so no point. I go for god being everything. I also see no point in trying to figure out what god thinks. I will only hear my own beliefs gaining momentum. :evil: I am more interested in how god works here and now.

Angelman wrote: "Maguru" wrote

There is the reality of the opposites, chaos, fear and darkness. Is god not the source of those also?

There are as many realities as one want's it's all about free will and choice. The power to create what you will is an integral component of life and as part of that life with creative abilities we have created chaos, fear, and darkness etc, which are just light of a different colour !. we/I get the light pure and colour or cloud it with our own creation/s, your electricity provider is not responsible for what you do with the power it provides you. one can always choose again the reality of oneness over the reality of opposites.
Happy every Day
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Maybe it's in the connection/unity of opposites that oneness can become a reality.

SubsidingInsanity wrote:

maguru wrote: Why and where would god wait and hide? Where is he not?

He's not in the physical universe.

No, that's of the ego.

Not exactly. If we are all separate beings then a single God can have a personal relationship with all of us. God would just explain it to us so we wouldn't argue. If it is as I believe that we are all one in Spirit, and Spirit is the only true reality then there are no divisions.

I'm lost for words. You have a whole belief system backing up your answers that I do not share. I will just say one thing, you will not know god until you know yourself, accept yourself (ego and all) trust yourself and have faith in yourself. This results in just being. These are the attributes that I believe is the spirit of god.

Maguru,

Your words are the true focus here. Accept yourself, trust yourself, have faith in yourself. If these words are true, as if they were on a table and a study group was analyzing them, then you are right. If there is ego contributing to your trust and faith, then you are wrong.

As we introduce our words to the whole of society, how do we say it? How many can say the words and have the study group agree they are truth? 5%?

Wade