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so, if god is eternal and uncreated, unformed and someone wishes to be with god, will they too have to become unattached to their beastly form in order to be with God?
From the Baha'i perspective humans cannot attain the presence of God, nor define God. Human souls develope the attributes of God in this world and the journey through many worlds.
yeah.....flesh cannot inherit the kingdomso, if god is eternal and uncreated, unformed and someone wishes to be with god, will they too have to become unattached to their beastly form in order to be with God?
We must transform all matter into light.so, if god is eternal and uncreated, unformed and someone wishes to be with god, will they too have to become unattached to their beastly form in order to be with God?
We must transform all matter into light.
OK, but do you have to be a fixed form in order to do that? if palingenesis is possible, then which personality is the one to identify with eternally? even without metempsychosis; which personality in one lifetime is the eternal I?idk about you but any body i have seen who in some way (including myself) who has disattached from the physical body, can't relate with the world successfully.
I find it hard to beleive that we are in this amazing creation for the sole reason to get away from it.
I find connecting with the physical , strengthens the connection with the eatheral.
It's all connected.
what does a baha'i believe god created from? ex-nihilo?
Beastly form is God's gift to us.beastly form
understood but what does God create from????God is not Created
god's physical existence is our physical existence?God is eternal as well as our physical existence is eternal with God.
agreedEx-nihilo is an outdated theological belief that God Created our physical existence from absolute nothing (philosophical nothing).
a gift for what?Beastly form is God's gift to us.
God was alone and he made us with our beastly forms to keep him company. A gift of life.a gift for what?
so you understand god as male and masculine? what about all the other forms of life?God was alone and he made us with our beastly forms to keep him company. A gift of life.
God created all forms of life to keep him company, not just people.so you understand god as male and masculine? what about all the other forms of life?
understood but what does God create from????
god's physical existence is our physical existence?
God created all forms of life to keep him company, not just people.
Why not? It shows God's great love. He gave life to others than him.Keep him company?!?!
This is too much of an anthropomorphic view of God to be real.
Why not? It shows God's great love. He gave life to others than him.
but imagine God being only him and nothing else. Then what?God's love, not defined by fallible humans, is beyond the superficial anthropomorphic 'keep company.'