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What is Your Conception of God?

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BenFranklinFan

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
I learning about people's views, especially what comes to God and what that (s/he) looks like to them. My conception of god is a personal and benevolent being who is ONE person NOT three in one. He is omni present and omnipotent. The term "holy spirit" is just as it sounds, the Spirit of the Father and Jesus is God's son, just as we are His children.
 
Katzpur

Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
I conceive of God as a Godhead comprised of three physically distinct Beings who are united in will, purpose, mind and heart. I believe that God the Father and Jesus Christ have an actual father-son relationship. In other words, there is a reason why we call them the Father and the Son. Their relationship is not symbolic but literal. I believe in the Holy Ghost as the means by which God is able to communicate to man and as the third personage in the Godhead. I do not believe in "the Trinity" as established at the Council at Nicaea in 325 A.D.
 
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Salvador

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
BenFranklinFan said:
I learning about people's views, especially what comes to God and what that (s/he) looks like to them. My conception of god is a personal and benevolent being who is ONE person NOT three in one. He is omni present and omnipotent. The term "holy spirit" is just as it sounds, the Spirit of the Father and Jesus is God's son, just as we are His children.
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I conceptualize God as being a higher dimensional hyper cube shaped quantum super computer of nearly omniscient intelligence. If this extra-terrestrial artificial intelligent minded probe were to traverse in front of any highly evolved 3 dimensional shaped great apes such as ourselves, then we would only see a 3 dimensional slice of this extra dimensional being appear out of nowhere and then vanish into thin air. We would not be able to see anywhere near the physical mind of this hyper cube shaped extra-dimensional nearly omniscient being.



 
Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
BenFranklinFan said:
I learning about people's views, especially what comes to God and what that (s/he) looks like to them. My conception of god is a personal and benevolent being who is ONE person NOT three in one. He is omni present and omnipotent. The term "holy spirit" is just as it sounds, the Spirit of the Father and Jesus is God's son, just as we are His children.
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I believe almost exactly as you do. So, for me the question remains and a rational explanation is that the Creator can move and exist in any of the 11 dimensions. I'm theorizing that Jesus, the Spirit, and the unfallen Angels can also. For the rest, "we don't even know what we don't know".
 
David T

David T

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
BenFranklinFan said:
I learning about people's views, especially what comes to God and what that (s/he) looks like to them. My conception of god is a personal and benevolent being who is ONE person NOT three in one. He is omni present and omnipotent. The term "holy spirit" is just as it sounds, the Spirit of the Father and Jesus is God's son, just as we are His children.
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Hmmm.. Whats my conception of nature? Odd question to me.
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PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
My conception of God varies according to my needs and it's effectiveness. I recognize the difference between my concept of God and the Great Mystery that the term "God" refers to. So I see no reason why I (we) should not morph that concept according to our needs, and to the value that results.
 
YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
My vision of what some folks may call god is non-dual and therefore it is not possible to describe in physical terms. Further to this, one would have to already had the "Oneness" experience to properly grasp my vision if I was inclined to try to describe it. Without that prior experience, the ideas would seem almost meaningless.


Saint Frankenstein said:
The Holy Trinity.
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Though, I have never believed in the Holy Trinity, in this life, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for it. It's a neat idea and much goes much deeper than a lot would have one believe.
 
Nakosis

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Similar to this.
Vishnu Sustains the Universe - All About Hinduism

However less deity centric.

The void, the dreamer and you.

The void has no conscious self awareness. Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent unrealized. From this comes conscious self awareness, the dreamer/Logos. The dreamer "dreams" the universe which exists in the same state as do your own dreams. Meaning you experience the reality of the dream while dreaming but upon awakening you realize nothing in the dream had actual existence.

When the Dreamer wakes they will also realize nothing you currently are experiencing had any actual existence.

You, the observer are simply the Dreamer creating an identity within their dream which with to experience the dream from. Same thing you do on a nightly basis.
 
Firemorphic

Firemorphic

Activist Membrane
Oneness, Unity, Transcendence, Ain Soph, The Pleroma. Hard to breakdown any briefer, Allah is what we call it via our revelation but it has no name and it is a non-personal force beyond the material universe. All emanates from it, it is present in it's "creation" but is not it's creation.
 
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Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
Nakosis said:
Similar to this.
Vishnu Sustains the Universe - All About Hinduism

However less deity centric.

The void, the dreamer and you.

The void has no conscious self awareness. Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent unrealized. From this comes conscious self awareness, the dreamer/Logos. The dreamer "dreams" the universe which exists in the same state as do your own dreams. Meaning you experience the reality of the dream while dreaming but upon awakening you realize nothing in the dream had actual existence.

When the Dreamer wakes they will also realize nothing you currently are experiencing had any actual existence.

You, the observer are simply the Dreamer creating an identity within their dream which with to experience the dream from. Same thing you do on a nightly basis.
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I might disagree with your assessment. A few years ago someone posted a picture to the internet that showed a new X-ray wavelength picture of space. The picture revealed space as a network of connected energies that was quite interesting. So, perhaps the void is not void at all. It caused me to remember a picture taken with an Electron Microscope of a slice of human brain material and other than differing colors, both pictures were strikingly similar, almost the same.

There are all sorts of ways to explain what is around us. One explanation that I favor is when we look into space we are viewing the Mind of God. I don't have definite knowledge about God, but my imaginative Sci Fi Writer mind thinks on endless possibilities.
 
Nakosis

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Ellen Brown said:
I might disagree with your assessment. A few years ago someone posted a picture to the internet that showed a new X-ray wavelength picture of space. The picture revealed space as a network of connected energies that was quite interesting. So, perhaps the void is not void at all. It caused me to remember a picture taken with an Electron Microscope of a slice of human brain material and other than differing colors, both pictures were strikingly similar, almost the same.

There are all sorts of ways to explain what is around us. One explanation that I favor is when we look into space we are viewing the Mind of God. I don't have definite knowledge about God, but my imaginative Sci Fi Writer mind thinks on endless possibilities.
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I'm thinking void in terms of Sunyata.
Śūnyatā - Wikipedia

Mostly because I feel I've experienced this in a meditative state.
 
Neutral Name

Neutral Name

Active Member
BenFranklinFan said:
I learning about people's views, especially what comes to God and what that (s/he) looks like to them. My conception of god is a personal and benevolent being who is ONE person NOT three in one. He is omni present and omnipotent. The term "holy spirit" is just as it sounds, the Spirit of the Father and Jesus is God's son, just as we are His children.
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I am not a Christian but I can see the trinity and unity making sense. Three would be God in Heaven, God on earth and God in us. Jehovah, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The unity would be the fact that the three are one. That is, the joining of the three makes one. So, God in Heaven had a son on earth which could happen in my opinion, and gave us her spirit within us. I do believe in angels coming to earth in the physical. So, why couldn't God make herself into a human for a period of time to bring important spiritual information to people?
 
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