Open_Minded
Nothing is Separate
Well the thread title about says it all ... 
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Are we God - or some expression thereof?
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Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I'm god. I don't know what the rest of you are, but it sure ain't expressions of me. I just assume you're all there for my amusement.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
How are we defining God?
Open_Minded
Nothing is Separate
I'm open minded ... no pun intended.
Are we God - or some expression thereof?
Yes.
We are all in the slow process of realizing our Oneness.
Yes.
We are all in the slow process of realizing our Oneness.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
I'm open minded ... no pun intended.
So, you're saying you're not defining the term.
Okay sure, I'm God. I also breathe God, eat God, and defecate God.
As He is in Himself, no.
God created me, giving me a separate essence from His. On that account, I am not God. He is infinite, whereas I am finite. I am contained within a body and three dimensions, whereas He in Himself is without a body and has no dimensions. He is all-knowing, whereas my knowing is conditioned and forever limited. He is in everything, whereas I am in one place. He is Nowhere, whereas I am here. He "IS" whereas I participate in the being I received from Him.
I could go on but I think you get the picture :sleep:
However in God "I" existed as an idea in His mind from all eternity, before he created me in time.
We are therefore the expression in time of an eternal idea in God's Mind.
I therefore am, in a sense as concerns my eternal being, God in God. Everything that is in God is God. He has no parts.
In time, in multiplicity, as a creature I am not God.
In eternity, I am god with God.
By grace I can become what He is by Nature. God.
His energies can divinize me entirely so that I and Him become one "I" indistinguishable from the other, like a candle flame before the light of the Sun. When the Sun shines, the light from the candle is indistinguishable from the sun's greater light, even though they are different in kind, that greater light overpowers the lesser until it vanishes and is reduced to nothing.
God can do this with us by grace.
God created me, giving me a separate essence from His. On that account, I am not God. He is infinite, whereas I am finite. I am contained within a body and three dimensions, whereas He in Himself is without a body and has no dimensions. He is all-knowing, whereas my knowing is conditioned and forever limited. He is in everything, whereas I am in one place. He is Nowhere, whereas I am here. He "IS" whereas I participate in the being I received from Him.
I could go on but I think you get the picture :sleep:
However in God "I" existed as an idea in His mind from all eternity, before he created me in time.
We are therefore the expression in time of an eternal idea in God's Mind.
I therefore am, in a sense as concerns my eternal being, God in God. Everything that is in God is God. He has no parts.
In time, in multiplicity, as a creature I am not God.
In eternity, I am god with God.
By grace I can become what He is by Nature. God.
His energies can divinize me entirely so that I and Him become one "I" indistinguishable from the other, like a candle flame before the light of the Sun. When the Sun shines, the light from the candle is indistinguishable from the sun's greater light, even though they are different in kind, that greater light overpowers the lesser until it vanishes and is reduced to nothing.
God can do this with us by grace.
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The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
All things have a piece of God IMO. That's because (I believe) God is a nexus.
John Martin
Active Member
Well the thread title about says it all ...
Just as the Sun radiates its light so also the Lord radiates this creation.
By knowing that we are both the Sun and its ray
We find peace in our hearts.
Me Myself
Back to my username
Breathe
Hostis humani generis
Are you becoming a pan(en)theist or something?
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
Nope and nope.
Mankind cannot be equated to god as either physical or spiritually or even implying we are expressions of god.
We have no similar qualities with god as far as I know. If we are truly expression of god I must say that he is quite frightening
Mankind cannot be equated to god as either physical or spiritually or even implying we are expressions of god.
We have no similar qualities with god as far as I know. If we are truly expression of god I must say that he is quite frightening
chinu
chinu
We LOVE somethings,
And God also LOVE something,
Itsn't this the equal attribute between God and its creation ?