Erebus
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I am very aware that I do not hold the full answer to what God truly is. But one thing I been thinking of is that it looks like many people see God in a Human way, with all the faults and error we humans hold. and many use their own understanding of how they think God should be, instead of trying to find what God actually is. We put our own personal ego into God and say, you have to be like this, or I will not believe in you.
That sounds like a path to failure. I think we must take away human thought and opinion of what God should be. and see God more like our own inner wisdom, but without the wisdom, God will be invisible to us.
(PS. when i speak of inner wisdom, it is not within the physical body)
That's fair. The problems I outlined assume an interpretation of God as a being that consciously created the world, its laws and the consequences of breaking those laws. They don't apply to all god concepts, such as some deistic or pantheistic interpretations.
Even if God is the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the universe who takes an active interest in human affairs, the problems we see in the world don't automatically disprove his existence. They do mean two things though: 1. Describing that being as "good" is a stretch. Amoral is probably a better description. 2. If that's what God is, then it's hard to argue that it's entirely on us when bad things happen.
As to putting our own ego onto God, that's pretty much inevitable. We are shaped by our own experiences and emotions and so our capacity for understanding is limited. If God is our inner wisdom, that wisdom would still be filtered through human perception and subject to all our flaws when we try to interpret it.
I know some people feel that it's possible to attain a state of understanding and oneness with God in which human flaws and ego are temporarily (or perhaps permanently depending on who you ask) put on hold. Some people also feel that they've had that experience. I can't claim to know for sure whether or not they're right but my personal stance is that they're probably mistaken. To be clear, I'm not saying I don't believe they had the experience. My view is that it's more likely to be a psychological phenomenon than a supernatural one if you follow?