God - real or imagined?

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The source of creation manifests as the creation. The Intelligence is not evenly distributed but, instead, manifests in varying clumps of awareness. Human awareness, the highest awareness that we know of, at the level of its intellect, empirically understands its own existence. But he/she also subconsciously understands this is inadequate because it is ignorant of the relationship between the manifest and the unmanifest. Because of this discomfort, intellect makes a feeble attempt to bring the unmanifest to its level of comprehension with the notion of deity.

Only the mystics know the satisfaction that comes with the experiential realization that the individual is not separate from the unmanifest as he is mistakenly informed by his intellect.

 

[Robert Landbeck]

Folks,

Therefore we have full license to examine any claims of God
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Often stated, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof and rightly so. And there is no claim more extraordinary than those which apply to God. And no claim so lacking of the direct evidence and proof that scripture strongly suggests is possible.That such proof is soarly lacking can only mean that existing religious claims and traditions, founded upon an all too human and fallible theological construct of the word of God must be false. God is either true and be prepared to offer demonstration of his own reality or not. And any omnipotent, omniscient reality can do better than two thousand years of bloody and unresolved theological disputes.

Faith can be a powerful tool when it leads to practical insight. Even as a scientist puts his faith in human understanding in the search for and discovery of practice knowledge, Faith in God should be able to trump any an all of human understanding. When that happens, religion will have begun. The Final Freedoms

 

[Deidre]

If you're a believer, God's presence can feel real in your life. Provable is another story. But, such is faith...if there were objective ways to prove god, then no faith would be required.

 

[psychoslice]

If you're a believer, God's presence can feel real in your life. Provable is another story. But, such is faith...if there were objective ways to prove god, then no faith would be required.

Even when we are in love we feel the others presence, but that doesn't mean their god.

 

[Bogg]

The acceptance of God whether real or imagined rests with the individuals belief structure!
The truth is that God is not real, he/she is imagined and only an individual can, within himself, decide what he or she wants to believe.
Some say you can't see the wind but it is real! Yes but we can FEEL the wind so we know it exists. You cannot feel God nor see him. Our only evidence is books written hundreds of years ago about events that happened thousands of years ago. Mere fairy tails I ponder........