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God Concepts
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My God is God because my God can exist alone.
Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
Everything in the universe is created or caused somehow. You have a father and mother. The chicken comes from an egg. The bike was made in a factory, from metal ores and rubber. That rain is falling because of moisture buildup.
A God is someone (not something) that does not have to be created, and cannot be destroyed.
"But but the Big Bang is the original event!" Then the Big Bang is your God. Pretty stupid God if you ask me, but whatever.
A God is someone (not something) that does not have to be created, and cannot be destroyed.
"But but the Big Bang is the original event!" Then the Big Bang is your God. Pretty stupid God if you ask me, but whatever.
InChrist
Free4ever
God to me means the Creator of the universe and all life...
Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it: Isaiah 42:5
Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other. Isaiah 45:18
Not a created god...
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens. 1 Chronicles 16:26
Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it: Isaiah 42:5
Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other. Isaiah 45:18
Not a created god...
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens. 1 Chronicles 16:26
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
Overwhelming secular. So secular, I feel bad for all the religious folks whenever they post, because they inevitably get shot down by about 7 people.
Bullies.
A entity, being, force with both absolute power, meaning they could do anything and absolute humility, meaning what they did do was done in the service of others...
If I came across someone like that, I'd be ok with considering them God.
To call God a "something" is to use the language of duality rather than words of oneness. The words of oneness is that everything is God but we are wrapped in "veils" which prevents us from experiencing that truth.
To express this a bit differently than I have before here: "The Divine Beloved is Always with You, in You and around You. Know you are not separate from Him."
To express this a bit differently than I have before here: "The Divine Beloved is Always with You, in You and around You. Know you are not separate from Him."
Cary Cook
Member
The term God is ambiguous, even with the capital G. It can mean, among other things:
1. Supreme Being: that which created the first created thing
- - who may or may not be the same as
2. Creator of this universe
- - who may or may not be the same as
3. Creator of mankind
- - who may or may not be the same as
4. Judge of mankind
- - who may or may not be the same as
5. BibleGod - which can be subdivided into many different versions of BibleGod
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Jeremiah Ames
Well-Known Member
I was following along until number 5.
I must disagree on the subdivision of versions in the Bible.
McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
Ah, so your god is outside the universe, right?
Yes.
Your point?
where does the egg come from?
Chicken, right?
Fair enough.
Though it is much more complicated than that.
Have you let Gravity know?
Interesting.
Please be so kind as to explain how you think this definition is helpful.
You really need to make up your mind.
*facepalm*
YOU are the one claiming god CANNOT be a something and has to be a someone, yet in the same post you proclaim a something god....
How can you be taken seriously?
McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
How, given all the versions of the Trinity?
Cary Cook
Member
Sorry. That was ambiguous. I meant versions of God.
Will go back and change it. Thanks.
Jeremiah Ames
Well-Known Member
I do not believe in a trinity of Gods.
Just more ‘precepts of man’ Jesus spoke against.
Jeremiah Ames
Well-Known Member
We (my Hindu sampradaya) see God (Siva) as having 3 perfections, not separate from each other. The most external is the Primal Soul, represented by Nataraja, the universal dancer, from which all form gets emanated. The second perfection is primal substance, the unifying force of all form, underlying substratum of all that exists, represented by Aardhinarisvara. The final and deepest is the causal formless Brahman, beyond all time, form, and space, the great mystery, the Cause, because of which none other could exist, and represented by the SivaLingam.
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Axe Elf
Prophet
You make me feel jealous--none of my posts about God have been shot down yet (although I suppose some have tried).
Axe Elf
Prophet
That's right; there are not three gods, there is one God with a triune nature. We can understand this by way of our own triune nature (being created in God's image and all)--with a body (Son), soul (Father) and Spirit. We are the only created beings to share that triune nature with God (animals have bodies and spirits, but no souls; angels/demons have spirits and souls, but no bodies).
McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
Now you seemed confused.
There are many different versions of god all based upon the Bible.
Your post above demonstrates it.