Shouldn't the question be do you experience God as personal? What does it matter what one believes? Is God a rational proposition?
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I think my question was getting at what do you experience? Not what we believe to be true with the reasoning mind.The idea of a personal God may sound irrational but impersonal God is highly probable...still i believe in Personal God
I That's an image of God, a model of God the mind in it's limited sight attempts to map out, creating an image of itself projected onto the face of Infinity. How do you suppose that is Truth?
I think there is a progressive line of how the mind conceives of something, and that without the benefit of direct experience, it relies on either a certain sensed intuition (faith), that gives the mind additional information from that limited sight attempting to reach beyond this shore to the other, or it is nothing but cognitive speculations, deductions, reasoning, etc.. In this sense if it is coming from a conception without experience, it is a projection of either rational speculation, or an expression of faith unrealized in experience. In either case, they are projections, but one which includes some sense of experienced faith, or intuition. If there is direct experience however, beyond faith or faith realized in experience, then that informs the mind with actual apprehended data. Then how God is spoken about or conceptualized becomes a description or expression of actual experience.This is intriguing. So are our conceptions of God really the mind trying to project itself?
I believe everything is divine. I also believe we live separated and unaware of this within our own minds, in how we identify reality as the mental models we create and interact with, including our own self-image, as reality itself. It's a "belief-world", be that religious or scientific, as opposed to a world of faith, or a world of an awakened enlightenment. It's that exclusive identification with the world of mental objects that creates this separation, and we become unaware, isolated, and angst-ridden as a result. As we move beyond that separation we see the nature of who we are, who we have always been, and that is the Divine. We already are that which we seek. But simply saying there's nothing to look for and just going off our merry ways without first seeing beyond that separation, is not living an awakened life. The words that say all there is is just this, is correct. But that doesn't mean remain asleep.Is the mind what is divine, or does the divine reside in the mind?
Haha.... well, I hardly know where to start to such a complicated question as that.I am just curious.
I am just curious.