Ringokid..the elusive 4th beatle! I realize that the point of my post is not to debate with how anyone else sees God. He is to each of us a unique and personal concept. I will say that I take back what I said about relating to Him without a Bible. Somehow, the God that I relate to is described in the Bible, so I cannot disassociate the book from my God. Ringo, you had some good observations, and I want to contrast how I see God from how you see Him. You say:
I believe it's the same God for everyone we just percieve "him" differently...
I agree. God is apart from human imagination, thus, He is the same for everyone yet all see Him uniquely.
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God's house has many rooms and many paths lead to the same door
I say it like this: There may be many paths up the mountain, yet there is a common point at the top for all. The same God occupies this point.
Christ is a "consciousness" which when attained leads to God we can share this consciousness to a certain degree yet we are not God..
Seems as if to me you are describing the Holy Spirit as an infusion of the divine into an individual. I believe that we are not all a part of God pantheistically, yet we all are united communally. One Spirit...one vibe...many flavors..
...Jesus life was a metaphorical process a means to an end
Wow! If by definition, a metaphor is:metaphor \"me-t-'fr\ n : a figure of speech in which a word for one idea or thing is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them (as in "the ship plows the sea") metaphorical Then the phrase,
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
is a metaphor of the reality of the infusion of an unseen divinity into a physical world. You may be right that we are not to worship Him, but I don't see a blasphemy involved if He is, in fact, God incarnate. You say that
the truth of your life is reflected in the way you live it which leads to a higher consciousness and he lived by example
where I would believe that He is, in fact, the Most High consciousness.... eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
But getting back on topic, this is how I see God. It is not the only way to see Him.