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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2005-05-23 11:39 PM

What is God?  OK, Who is God?
Is there an answer to those questions?
(Religious interpretations don’t count.)
Does the universe hide God’s identity,
presenting as proof of credentials
(that such an entity exists at all)
the created “order” of things?

Finding a car on the side of the road
does not prove the existence of General Motors:
just that someone made it.
Ah but what if it has a brand name?
OK – what’s God’s brand name? The Bible?
That makes me laugh so hard it hurts!

Let’s take God as a trinity –  pretty basic:
Spirit, Father and Son (sorry ladies, men only!)
One: Spirit that animates all things – including God!
Two: a Father who is the dreamer
Three: a Son – the created part of God’s thought –
the one who interacts with all his creation
in his dream.

Let’s break it down some more: gods.
Animated by Spirit, they come into existence.
Alone – so they think.
They dream companionship: a new world
(as big or small as you want it to be)
They project themselves into their creation:
The “son” is the inter-actor in their dream.
And they also observe themselves interacting.

Some “push” the dream, make impossible demands;
create rules of conduct, maximizing polarity:
these are the dictators:
you don’t want to find yourself created there!
Then, they wake up – the dream ends
and they go on with their regular routine:
for many of them, that means kindergarten...
Yes, gods are usually just kids playing.
Simple, isn’t it?

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2005-05-24 12:11 PM

I don't interpret God within the narrow parameters of the traditional trinity, and rather than break the concept down into units of understanding more palatable to humans, I prefer to expand the concept of God outwardly...into the unknowable realms.
The more people try to define God, the further away they seem to get from anything beyond some petty control freak. LOL, but always, we seem destined to ponder, identify, quantify, or label God. I nearly always stop at the question, IS there a God?

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2005-05-24 12:55 PM

Not sure if the answer lies in knowing what or who...more like...if there were a God...would you believe in him...as the Bible says...and I know some don't believe in that...and that is a choice to believe or to not believe..."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life"...James

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

3 posted 2005-05-24 07:15 PM

The face of God...
When we need to know him, I guess we do...usually on our knees, and apparently...
We recognize him.

Such great concepts here.
TD

Canuckster
Member

since 2002-01-09

Posts 285
New Mexico, USA

4 posted 2005-05-24 11:38 PM

Hard questions and well stated.

But in the end, what it all boils down to is who's creative act yields who?

For all atheists who do not believe in God, there remains the question of whether God believes in atheism.

never try to teach a pig to sing
it wastes your time AND annoys the pig

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