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10) “Be still, and know that I am God"And there are others such as:
Psalm 62:5 “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.”
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God, What is it?
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10) “Be still, and know that I am God"And there are others such as:
Psalm 62:5 “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.”
SaintUriah
Member
Yes
Inside and outside No matter how it is done it reproduces itself one of several options
Under The seventh sky mean inside and known Under world
One of several options? What options are those?
SaintUriah
Member
Holy Spirit
Spirit of God is person uncreated by god
As Angel demos Humans Their skins are created by god
but come from him as free Without skins
has Divine abilities from god
I think they show the same God. The same God is merciful and loving, but doesn’t allow evil to continued forever, which I think is good and loving.
Also, gravity is insubstantial force, still some people believe it exists, even though they can’t see it directly. We can see it by its effect and I think the same is with God (Love). To understand what it means, I think it would be good to read the Bible and understand how God is shown in it.
But they don't personify it, they don't impute intention or conscious activity to gravity.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Here is the OP:
It doesn't appear limited to anthropomorphic gods.
Let me illustrate one of the paths that led me to this concept of God.
In college, my belief in God was seriously upset by a philosophy professor who was very good at breaking down religious assumptions. I spent a good portion of a semester in an existential malaise. But, I managed to use my new ways of thinking and expanding interest in mysticism to redefine God. As follows:
-"God" can be defined as omnipotent, omnipresent, and a creating and destroying being with consciousness.
-To be omnipotent and omnipresent, a being would have to be the Universe itself.
-Since life forms are conscious, and are inextricably a part of this Universe, this makes the Universe conscious. Looked at as a whole, the Universe may as well be God.
Another way:
-People interpret God differently, even in the same religion. Some see God as all good and wondrous, others see a mix of good and evil and both beautiful and terrible. Or forgiving. Or vengeful.
-How a person sees God is a reflection of their own personality and how they view the world.
-Therefore, God becomes a mirror, reflecting the relationship of the individual to the Universe.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
What?
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
Tell that to the thousands, if not millions, of innocent folks who Yahweh killed or commanded to kill in the OT alone.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
as Moses was about to return to his people
tablets of law in cradle of his arm....he thought to ask
What Name shall I say to them?
they will want to know Whose law this is?
God replied......say to the people
I AM!
and they with understanding will know Whose law this is
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Hey!...….wtf
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
What does that all mean?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I was paraphrasing scripture …..to be concise
and apparently......you are one of the many that don't understand
dfnj
Well-Known Member
God is not a thing. Why do atheists insist on defining God in a particular way. Things have boundaries. Every major religion defines God as not having boundaries or limitations. God is both immanence and transcendence at the same time. God is both knowable and unknowable at the same time. God is NOT a thing.
Just because you use a toilet everyday does not make you a master plumber. God is a word that does not have a simple definition. It is not a word you can understand after a few days of Sunday school as a child. God is more than just your simple way of thinking about God. People spend their whole lives studying divinity and mythology. There's actually quite a lot written on the subject.
Consider the following idea for God:
"Dionysius describes the kataphatic or affirmative way to the divine as the "way of speech": that we can come to some understanding of the Transcendent by attributing all the perfections of the created order to God as its source. In this sense, we can say "God is Love", "God is Beauty", "God is Good". The apophatic or negative way stresses God's absolute transcendence and unknowability in such a way that we cannot say anything about the divine essence because God is so totally beyond being. The dual concept of the immanence and transcendence of God can help us to understand the simultaneous truth of both "ways" to God: at the same time as God is immanent, God is also transcendent. At the same time as God is knowable, God is also unknowable. God cannot be thought of as one or the other only."
Apophatic theology - Wikipedia
In the spirit of Apophatic theology, God is NOT a thing. God is word that is a representation of an idea.
dfnj
Well-Known Member
Oops. I made a stupid boo boo. I meant 46
What does this mean? Is God out there or is God coming from within when we are are peaceful with our thoughts?
dfnj
Well-Known Member
You could argue nobody is capable of reading scripture and interpreting it in the divine way in which is was written. It is the nature of human language to be imprecise and ambiguous. The Bible may be the word of God but nobody is capable of reading it as such unless you are the second coming of Jesus.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
It's not my "native" language. Unless it's direct rather than abstract, poetic, I won't understand it. I'm not sure why God needs to have mystic language especially eastern mysticism.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
but I would not
maybe you can see?......my plea of ignorance is gone
and anyone daring to quote me.....
heaven then is sure.....you have heard such things
they will ask......who told you that?
why did you agree?
(and even if you don't)
they will deal with you for having agreed
or denied
and then....they come looking for me
maybe with swords drawn