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I don't understand.God is everything and not separate from anything. It has been said that He's "one without a second" because only God is real.
Welcome to the human condition.I don't understand.
BUT in a few religions, God is absolute One. How is that possible?
What are the characteristics of only One God?
Why only One God?
Again... I find it quite easy to understand.One God. Period.
In Orthodox Christianity, God is a trinity, so he isn't exactly one.
BUT in a few religions, God is absolute One. How is that possible? What are the characteristics of only One God? Why only One God?
One God. Period.....
..... n a few religions, God is absolute One. How is that possible? .......Why only One God?
What about a nontrinity God? There are a few religions where God is absolute one and not a trinity.Again... I find it quite easy to understand.
Man is a trinity... spirit, soul and body - each with a different materiality and a different purpose but still one man. God is also a trinity but just one God.
Why just one? Maybe because only one could have started the process?
My belief is that nothing exists but God but that we don't experience it because there are 'veils' over our innermost nature. So God is not a 'super person' but all pervading and the statement that God knows the falling of a leaf is from that God is the falling leaf and everything else.I don't understand.
If God is only one, how then everything was created in the image of God? A rock, an apple, etc. how they were created? Are not things images of Gods?How is it impossible?
Why not one G-d?
God is in us? You and I are two people, so is God two people?My belief is that nothing exists but God but that we don't experience it because there are 'veils' over our innermost nature. So God is not a 'super person' but all pervading and the statement that God knows the falling of a leaf is from that God is the falling leaf and everything else.
Mystics affirm this. For example Kabir:
God is within
but people think that he is somewhere outside.
O! Irony of ironies!
and
Does Khuda live in the mosque?
Then who who lives everywhere?
Is Ram in idols and holy ground?
Have you looked and found him there?
Hari in the East, Allah in the West -
So you like to dream.
Search in the heart, in the heart alone:
There live Ram and Karim.
If God is only one, how then everything was created in the image of God? A rock, an apple, etc. how they were created? Are not things images of Gods?
Who said everything is created in the image of G-d?If God is only one, how then everything was created in the image of God? A rock, an apple, etc. how they were created? Are not things images of Gods?
That's the illusion we all have that appears to be two separate people but is really only one.God is in us? You and I are two people, so is God two people?
Paganism.Who said everything is created in the image of G-d?
Why the illusion then? Couldn't God skip the illusion?That's the illusion we all have that appears to be two separate people but is really only one.
Another image is two drops in the ocean. There is only one ocean but the drops think of themselves as separate from the ocean.
I don't see where it runs cross-grained. As I perceive God, I see Him as an absolute one just like I am absolute one.What about a nontrinity God? There are a few religions where God is absolute one and not a trinity.
That's a question to which I have no answer since I don't experience divinity. The only thing that I've ever heard was an ineffable whim.Why the illusion then? Couldn't God skip the illusion?
That is I'm trying to comprehend.I don't see where it runs cross-grained. As I perceive God, I see Him as an absolute one just like I am absolute one.
Like a cell. A cell is a composite of its individual pieces but still absolutely one cell.
Perhaps the other religions are just seeing the "cell" or "God", so to speak, without looking at His characteristics.
Paganism.