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How new is God?
- Thread starter Cooky
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She's coming down to disguise Herself as a kid to go trick or treating today, duh. God needs Her sugar fix, too.
Cooky
Veteran Member
What? You asked what God's plans are likely to be for today. I'm not sure what you were expecting.Wowzers.
What makes you think God is a woman or a man? I hope God isn't like a man or a human at all.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Cooky
Veteran Member
I don't know. I've met a few people in this life that seemed godly.
74x12
Well-Known Member
If God changes; then He's not God. God doesn't change. What turns you off about "ancient aspects" of God?
That's humans reflecting the attributes of God, then.
I find God is in His home location according to 1 Kings 8:39; 1 Kings 8:49 which is Heaven.
People make plans such as plan for a picnic, but if it rains plans change.
Whereas, with God it is more like His 'purpose' then a plan that can change.
So, God's purpose is the purpose He gave to Jesus, and Jesus gave to us as found at Matthew 24:14; Acts 1:8.
We are to tell others that the Good News of God's kingdom of Daniel 2:44 is the coming solution for mankind's problems.
It was just a bit of levity. I did answer your question of what I think God would be doing today. My answer is as valid as any other.Sorry, that was maybe just a little more than I bargained for.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Nothing turns me off about ancient aspects of God. I'm exploring today!
...But God is new, 74×12. He's also the future.
For me, God is eternal in the past and eternal in the future. He is beyond human comprehension and transcends all human concepts such as gender, time and space. God is also Omnipresent and Omnipotent. From time to time, from age to age He manifests Himself through communicates with people through men using the language, concepts and culture of that day. So when God made Himself known through Moses the historic circumstances were very different from the time of Muhammad or Christ. It was when God revealed Himself through times of conflict when a war really did need to be fought, language can take twists that are disturbing to the modern reader of sacred writings. The historic circumstances and the nature of conflict where very different when the Torah, Gospel,and Quran were revealed.
Still God is here with us know, closer than our own life vein.
Cooky
Veteran Member
The life vein makes me a little nervous, but I suppose so.
stvdv
Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
The ancient "old aspects of God" have been written down by "ancient people". I prefer to create my own "new aspects of God"
So I believe we are totally free to create whatever we like. For me at least not a "killing the bad guys God anymore"
When I pray I pray to God in my heart. Once I prayed to God "in heaven" (was a kind of big physical emergency)
Took eternity for God to respond (few hours seemed like ages). So from that moment I prayed to God in my heart
I'm not sure I understand the question. Do you mean that the gods change over time, and that they are no longer what they once were? Do you mean to contrast contemporary gnosis with those of your parents, grandparents, or further back? Or do you mean something else?
This confuses me even more. How can the gods we honor now not be in the moment and modern? That... it would just be very, very weird to not do that with one's theology. Worship something that is totally out of touch with everything that matters? Why would anyone ever do that? It makes no sense, so I've got to be understanding this wrong somewhere.
MonkeyFire
Well-Known Member
God can't be new at all, it would cause problems. If there were an angel of new things it would grow old and end any thing that swore to go allong with it. So if God were new, it's just that... He were. In "my religion" we were never created, in return for an eternity including always before in Heaven with love, pleasure, and God himself.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Well, pulling into the garage today, feeling a little down and out, I thought about God as I turned the car off. I thought to myself, how church is boring, old fashioned, ancient, etc.
...Then I thought to myself: "I wonder if God is old fashioned and boring", and I quickly decided that He is not. He can't be afterall, because God is the future!
So I just wanted to explore the idea of a modern God. But I don't know if that's ultimately possible... So here we are.