Leahpolitan_icecream
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Our spirit may be adjustable to become like God, but human body is not like God in my understanding.
Why would I be upset with God?
Some people are, I think in the Bible Job was upset
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Is God made in your own image? Do you always agree with them?
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Some people are, I think in the Bible Job was upset
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
I can not speak for others
If God "punished" me then I know it was a reason for it, and the reason would be my own fault, not Gods fault.
I read here that religious peoples God is always like them, is this true for you? Have you been upset at them before? Please explain
No. Even when I was Catholic I didn’t follow the “it’s God’s will” thinking when something happened, especially if it’s bad. I wasn’t one to see God as angry, moody, or punishing. That’s especially so as a Hindu. The idea of God being like us, except sharing in our pain, sorrows or joys, is completely alien and distasteful. In our stories even when a being (human or non-human) has cursed and rejected God, God does not punish them. The stories invariably end with God giving them moksha (liberation, redemption). God says ...
Psalm23
Well-Known Member
It can be hard to know as I cannot read the mind of God.
Sometimes God may speak but it be not perceived from my understanding of Job 33:14.
I read here that religious peoples God is always like them, is this true for you? Have you been upset at them before? Please explain
There are many races (Black, White, Asian, Middle Eastern). So, God would have to be all races, or one race, or perhaps race is not the same as image.
"Fat kids, skinny kids, kids that climb on rocks..."
There are "Fat kids, skinny kids, kids that climb on rocks, tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox" (who love Armour hotdogs).
There are tall, short, medium, and people who are nice and mean.
Are the mean ones like God?
Even Jesus changed appearances, originally, he was likely an average Semitic (Jews, then, looked like Arabs, but changed their appearance over the past 2,000 years by mating with native populations where they fled). Then, when Jesus rose from the grave, he was blond, with tanned feet and red eyes.
You'd think that Jesus would have looked a bit like dad. Was dad (God) Jewish too?
I am not upset that others speculate what God looked like.
You have a warm and kind religion.
God had a child (Jesus) with a betrothed woman (Mary). His morals are questionable, by human standards (and God wrote the book (bible) on human morals).
The idea that man is made in God's image is from the bible (supposedly from God).
Your writing is powerful, eloquent, and thought provoking. God is in charge, and we assume that God is moral. Yet, there are many instances in which God has killed.
PureX
Veteran Member
The Bible is a collection of some ancient men's conceptualizations of 'God'. There are many religions and cultures with many other conceptualizations of 'God'. But ultimately, none of us know if, or what, 'God' is apart from being the source and solution of the mystery of existence, itself.
This existential mystery is difficult for most of us to relate to, so we create images and personalities and so on that we can use to help us grasp and deal with the profundity of this great mystery. The mystery of why we are here, and why we suffer, and why we die, and what it's all for.
Today, I watched the livestream of my local mandir (temple). As I viewed the mūrti or 'idol' of Hanumān and listened to the Pandit and kirtan performers sing Hanumān Cālīsā, I felt nothing but bliss and almost got tears. Looking at the mūrtis of the rest of the deities at the end of the service, I felt the serenity and some of the bliss in them. So, in my experience, I would say God is not like me. Whereas I am full of miserly ego and sometimes upset over trivial crap such as the weather, Bhagavatī/Bhagavān is utter serenity and bliss.
I can only be upset with myself and other human beings.
I have broken two vows to Mahādevī. Despite feeling unworthy of her, I feel her love, care, and protection when I look to her anyway.
I read here that religious peoples God is always like them, is this true for you? Have you been upset at them before? Please explain
I do not look like any of these, I think.
Leahpolitan_icecream
Member
What is your favorite story about that?
Leahpolitan_icecream
Member
I read here that religious peoples God is always like them, is this true for you? Have you been upset at them before? Please explain
I keep the Bible God as my God and I think He is much better than me.
Who is she with the two cats? She looks pretty and like one of my aunts
That is Freya, Goddess of Hearth, Home, and Love. She is also a fierce battle goddess, and potent weaver of Seidr (trance magic). She has a chariot pulled by two cats.
74x12
Well-Known Member
Yeah, that sounds like a typical atheist talking point. Although there are some people whose religion and ideas of God are like this. Namely they make God like them because they think they are so great. I have to admit this is a thing.I read here that religious peoples God is always like them, is this true for you? Have you been upset at them before? Please explain
But for many of us; God is nothing like us. It's very difficult actually to be a good person by my beliefs. I know I'm not good.
Suave
Simulated character
If we are living in an ancestral type simulation, we'd be the simulated ancestors of God who is the controller of simulations.I read here that religious peoples God is always like them, is this true for you? Have you been upset at them before? Please explain
ecco
Veteran Member
However, as seen in cultures around the world since the dawn of recorded history, gods are created in man's image.