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Phat Member Posts: 14836 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
I figured that it was time to start a new thread. The point and topic of this thread is open to Creationists, Evolutionists, skeptics, thumpers and thinkers of all belief paradigms. To properly reply to this thread, however, one must have a belief in a defineable God. This God can be spiritual, physical, imagined, or experienced, but this God must be recognized to not be created by your own imagination but, rather, experienced as a personality or force.
How do any of you perceive Him (or Her) to be?
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Yaro Member (Idle past 5238 days) Posts: 1797 Joined: |
Well, I belive in a god, sort of anyway
![]() I belive that there is some sort of consiosness resident in this universe, that we are all conected to somehow. Yet, I see everything as a part of this, and don't regard humans as being particularly special. The ancient Japanese belived that everything in nature had a soul. The way they described it was similar to the idea that life was mearly a quality of matter, all things have diffrent amounts of life (soul) than others. Just as matter has atributes like weight or color, they also poses the atribute of this sort of 'life enrgy'. This is similar to my belife, tho I don't appeal to any supernatural forces to percive it's reality. I think the universe, and all it's forces and contents are in themselves 'supernatural', the very existance of existance is a magical thing to me. Thats essentially my view on things.
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RingoKid Inactive Member |
a "creative consciousness" that powers the universe...
...I am never more closer to God than when I am creating and never more distant than when I'm destroying unless it is with the intent of creating something better I too don't go in for supernature or metaphysics... ...God is a nihilist !!!
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mike the wiz Member (Idle past 32 days) Posts: 4697 From: u.k Joined: |
That's a good question Phatboy, and a tough one to ask aswell.
It's also hard to explain Well, - thoughtful. Now that will get the anti-gods in a huff because they probably think he's sadistic etc. But in all honesty, I have always recieved answers to my personal prayers. Certainly when I need something rather than want, then he usually gives me my request. But ofcourse, I admitt some imagination, but events I cannot imagine, so they give me the perception. God is definately a God of covenants/agreements - this is definately my strongest perception, I can't emphasize that enough!
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Phat Member Posts: 14836 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
I believe that at this point in my life, I need to be submissive to a higher power. When I "got saved", I know that I became aware of God. At the time, the perception was of a dynamic undefineable Spirit..Personality..Divine Love...that was greater than I. Later on, I made what I consider to be a common mistake among Christians: I became convinced that I and God were the same thing. I began to preach to my friends. I began to judge others. I began to back up my actions by declaring that I was a servent of God who was carrying out His will. What I really ended up doing was deifying my own will. That is why I needed to be accountable to a group of like minded believers. I don't think that all religions lead to God, but I do believe that He reaches out to all people.
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RingoKid Inactive Member |
I believe it's the same God for everyone we just percieve "him" differently...
...God's house has many rooms and many paths lead to the same door Christ is a "consciousness" which when attained leads to God we can share this consciousness to a certain degree yet we are not God... ...Jesus life was a metaphorical process a means to an end He even said it himself yet his words were twisted... "I am the way and the truth and the life and none shall pass unto the father exept thru me..." That didn't mean worship him as God it meant...the truth of your life is reflected in the way you live it which leads to a higher consciousness and he lived by example
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Phat Member Posts: 14836 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
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:
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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.
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Itachi Uchiha Member (Idle past 4356 days) Posts: 272 From: mayaguez, Puerto RIco Joined: |
Good Question. Definetly makes anyone stop and think about things allittle bit better.
Has anybody here seen the firs matrix movie where neo is on the phone with morphous and he is guiding him through a building and neo doesnt know what is happeneing, To me god is my guiDe in life. He tells me where to go and i follow because i know the road he takes me through is the right one. I said the right one not the easy one. Many people offer Christianity as an escape from everyday troubles but the truth is that being a Christian is harder than being a non believer. We have to conduct ourselves accordingly to gods laws while non believers do what they please butin the end when youre obidient to his word you will understand what his prpose is for your life. God is he center of my being
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RingoKid Inactive Member |
nah man...
...I'm not that beatle he was a starr but my skin is pretty tough though This Ringo is a kid who sees things with childlike simplicity and like to play games... essentially we agree on most things regarding God and consciousness it's just I see Jesus first and foremost as a man... ...peace out and keep the faith, you too Jazzlover
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
There are many gods in the perception of people, but one Jehovah (the existing one or the "I am.")
This god whose proper name is Jehovah (Hebrew YHWH) is spirit with an image who dwells in a certain location in the Universe known as Heaven, meaning the highest sense of that word, "Heaven," as distinguisted from the atmosphere or expanse of outer space. There is a multipresent aspect of his being known as the Holy Spirit whom he sends where ever he chooses to do things in the universe. God is the supreme being from whom all things came and by whom all things exist. His majestic being sits on a "throne" in Heaven where creatures of a higher dimension than earth men also exist and who worship and serve him day and night in what ever capacity he choses for them. On his right hand, what ever that entails exists his son, Jesus who once was on earth, known as the redeeming sacrifical lamb of God and who was a divine man born directly from the Holy Spirit of God and to whom he will give the kingdoms of this world to rule for a thousand years. This Son of God is our mediatior between man and God, who is also the lord or master of us through whom we speak to God the Father. He is the way to god, known as the "way, the truth, and the life." No man comes to god but through him exclusively as he claims in John 14:6 So In short, God is Jehovah (the existing one), the supreme creator entity of the universe from whom all things came and by whom all things exist. There is no other true god but him. He and his son Jesus are the only existing entities in the universe worthy of worship by his created beings. The Holy Spirit is worthy of worship, but directs all worship to the father, Jehovah, or the son, Jesus, he being the spirit of both the father and the son.
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Phat Member Posts: 14836 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
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Rahvin Member (Idle past 396 days) Posts: 3964 Joined:
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You resurrect a 9-year-dead thread just to say that nonbelievers just "do what thou wilt" and are not self-sacrificing or charitable? Really? That's pretty absurd, even for you Phat. “The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.” - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers “A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.” – Albert Camus "...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." - Barash, David 1995... "Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord Of the Rings
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