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If God is energy.
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Yours is higher!I might not have the IQ of Einstein
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Last time i actually did messured my IQ it was between 110 and 120 did not Einstein have higherYours is higher!
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Supposedly over 160, but they say that at such levels attempts at measuring is darn near impossible.Last time i actually did messured my IQ it was between 110 and 120 did not Einstein have higher
BTW, I've been told by many that my IQ is in the single digits, but I don't know what they're implying?
Hm.
If God is energy, and the goal in the life of some religious folks is to be united with God, perhaps all the disciplines that one is told to upkeep is so the body is compatible with that energy, not because these things are bad...
Just my own random pondering.
If God is energy, and the goal in the life of some religious folks is to be united with God, perhaps all the disciplines that one is told to upkeep is so the body is compatible with that energy, not because these things are bad...
Just my own random pondering.
an anarchist
Your local anarchist.
This is a tangent and may be a bit off topic.
I believe God is energy and through various religious practices it becomes possible to unify yourself with that energy.
From my understanding, Paganism is tapping into this energy source without going through God. The energy that is in nature, the pagan derives celestial energy through their practices. I believe this is why there is the common teaching against Paganism in religious texts, if Paganism is viewed this way.
I’ve had a Pagan tell me it’s not like this, but from my understanding of spiritual practice, this is how I perceive it.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
You may be on to something with your thought
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
If God are in the nature too, are not the pagans also actually tapping in to Gods energy?
Pagans are too vast to accurately say "Pagans do this". Some Pagans worship nature. Some do not. Some worship a specific form of God/dess. Others do not. Some have no desire to 'tap into an energy source'. Some get awfully New-Agey and are really into those ideas.
Pagan is really a blanket term.
No. Energy is a property of matter. Mass and energy are equivalent, not matter and energy.
InChrist
Free4ever
That’s the big question...”IF” God is impersonal energy that can be tapped into and manipulated by humans or “IF” God is a Living, Personal Being who created humans and on Whom we are dependent for each breath.If God is energy ( do not need to be the abrahanic God) and everything is build or created by energy, would'nt that mean a human being should be able to "tapp in to" the energy of God?
Is that how a human being can awaken to God from within?
Just a thought in my mind
Einstein (and Spinoza) was closer to identifying God with the laws of physics as opposed to something like energy or a force.
If we weren't able to distinguish between physical and spiritual i think that science would come to an end.
For example someone was saying in a different area of the forum words to the effect of evolution via natural selection is not true because of the ghost in the machine. If we can not distinguish between the physical (ie the machine or brain) and the spiritual (ie ghosts) our ability to determine how physical things came to be composed would come to an end.
Where would this lead? We could have people claiming that gravity doesn't exist it is just ghosts pulling things together or all sorts of utterly non-scientific statements being made adding to our confusion and obstructing scientific investigation.
It seems far simpler and more logical to me to be able to distinguish between the physical and spiritual.
In my opinion.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
So if there's no matter, there's no energy?
In the general sense of 'matter' that includes all fundamental particles (like photons and neutrinos), that is correct.
Just like there is no such thing as momentum without matter, or charge without matter. Energy is a property of matter. So is mass. But not all matter has non-zero mass.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
But you can't get from nothing to something without energy.
Which means you don't have nothing.
In those theories that have 'something from nothing', the total energy of 'everything' is zero.