What are the limitations of God?

Question

Obviously, if you're an atheist this doesn't really apply to you...

But for those who believe in some sort of God or gods or some higher power, what are the limits of your God?

If God is limitless, are we parts of God, or somehow extensions of God? If so, why do we appear to be separate?

If God has limits, what makes him/her/it God?

Answer 1

All souls have limitations in The Light. When a soul (free of matter) has progressed to whereby its consciousness can expand/ascend into The Light to the point of being able to create matter at will - on an individual basis - then that soul is considered to be God Realized.

Both Mormons and Solists believe that spiritual people have the potential to evolve into gods or Co-Creators, to be actualized in The Light after bodily death.

The Original Creator who manifested The Big Bang some 15 billion years ago was rarefied in God Consciousness but not infinite, as no soul can be endless.

All spiritual growth is a matter of degree.

A good way of looking at it is to visualize a future Ascended Master in the Monad Realms of Light as a large sphere of white light. A somewhat bigger sphere of white light indicates a more advanced Ascended Master. No sphere can be ever be infinite, just larger and with a higher degree of excellence.

After manifesting The Big Bang, The Original Creator divided up totally and irrevocably into trillions of basically spiritual people or "angels." Many traditional ministers, rabbis, priests, etc., have touched upon this spiritual truth when they conveyed the idea that "a piece of God is in all of us."

Dr. Melvin Morse is a pediatrician who is well-known for his research into the Near Death Experiences of children. Once a beautiful woman suggested that he learn how to pray. So he thought he would give it a try.

He prayed for an understanding of the relationship of man to God.

The answer came back to him in a flash of insight...the word "fractal."

A "fractal" is a piece of a greater whole that contains a picture or blueprint of that greater whole. Like a holographic image, if you were to break off a piece of that image, that piece would contain a smaller version of the entire picture.

As such, souls are "fractals of light" of The Original Creator.

In the Spirit, telepathy is the universal language.

When a soul incarnates, it lowers its vibration in order to unite with matter. In doing so, it is cut off from direct access to The Light Of The God Force on the Other Side - channeling notwithstanding - until it once again returns to Spirit. That is the nature of the separation. It is a separation of energy, a shrinking of one's consciousness in order to incarnate, and a separation from those we are close to on the Other Side.

Discarnate Saints in the Higher Realms of Spirit say that when the first wave of new God Realized Masters finally Ascend to their respective Primary Godhead Sun (as they have been greatly opposed by Group Entities for many years), The Original Creator, in an alternate time-line to this one but before The Great Division, will be invited into this space-time continuum. This will result in The First Coming.

They also say that when that happens, The Original Creator will take upon a youthful, ageless, and beautiful female body and that She will start an unprecedented healing ministry, whereby MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL BE HEALED AT ONCE.

That would not constitute omnipotence, but it would signify a far greater Gift of Healing than any prophet - past and present - in any traditional and non-traditional religion.

Once Her presence and power was publicly known, governments and religious leaders would immediately feel threatened and greatly oppose Her.

A corroborating prophecy which appears to touch upon this was given to General George Washington. A number of wars were predicted to occur, all of which the US would overcome. But the last war would involve a very powerful female figure.

I quote:

<< Three great perils will come upon the Republic. The most fearful is the third, passing which the whole world united shall not prevail against her. >>

We are in for some very interesting times.

Answer 2

Gish, you must first understand that we are sin. Most people look at sin as a concept that is outside of someone, but that is simply not so. Sin is our core and it's who we are. God loves us but at the same time He hates sin and He has told us time and time again that He will unleash His wrath upon sin. Since He loves us yet hates what we are and what we could become in our sin, He decided that sending Jesus would allow Him to punish sin and unleash His wrath while still remaining Holy. It would be unholy to allow sin to go unpunished. We are told in the Bible that Jesus literally became sin on the cross! God unleashed all of His wrath on the cross for those who will accept Christ. All others will still have to face that wrath. God abandons them - which makes hell such a bad place. The fact is God could have done a lot of things. . . but He didn't. He set His standards and He refuses to compromise on that standard. Does that mean He that sin is more powerful than God? No. Jesus completely wiped away the power that death and sin had over us when He died. In fact, God could have completely wiped away sin long before Jesus came (by simply destroying us all). God's punishment for sin isn't torture in the sense that He is guiding the process. It's torture in the sense that you will see all of His love and glory and then He will tell you to leave and will abandon you forever.

Answer 3

My God is self-limiting because it is only love. Love does not judge, condemn, or punish, it only loves. To do anything else would be a contradiction of this loving nature.

This limitation is more a function of Gods nature than any sign of lack of ability. It is like saying a fish swims but it does not fly. It would be silly to expect God or the fish to go against their nature.

As for the part of God, seperation thing. I ask this same question in a meditation once. The answer came instantly and clear as a bell.

It said, Once I had a lovely idea. This idea that I had was so lovely so perfect that I did not want to be without it another moment. So I thought a part of myself to have enough individuality to see itself as separate as a unit as an individual as you. I did this so that I might have you to love, and so that I might have you to love me.

This did not seem to be directed to me personally but to all of us. It answers a lot of my questions. I hope it helps you with yours.

Love and blessings

Answer 4

C.S Lewis point out that God cannot do nonsense; that is, that God cannot both do and not do something. By adhering to the first limitation, He cannot adhere to the second limitation. Nonsense does not become possible by saying "God can do it."

Many apparent paradoxes can be resolved by noting that they are statements about statements, not about reality (e.g., This statement is a lie). Either you get rid of them by re-stating them properly, or they are physical impossibilites, and you simply eliminate them and go on.

Few seem to appreciate what a whopping big miracle God did in providing a means of BOTH satisfying his eternal justice AND his mercy, in providing Christ for man's sin.

Imagine, if you can. the frustration that some parents have, when their child acts up. The impulse is to explode in anger and punish; it must be resisted with the impulse to forgive and correct. They simply have to eat the anger, taking the stress and strain (punishment) of it on themselves, rather than possibly scare the child or injure them.

(I am speaking in human terms, I do not mean to suggest that God has anger issues. But I hope this analogy helps to show that we also have conflicting drives and motives. God is very clever, to be able to figure out something like this!)

I realize that this does not address all the areas you were asking about, but it is one of the important ones: that God does not do nonsense.

Answer 5

Good questions. I believe that God is limitless. Since God created us, I guess we are an extension of Him. We appear to be separate because He is sinless and we are not.

Answer 6

This is an easy one.

Humans must have free will in order to make decisions for themselves. Without free will, we would have no choice in what we did, felt or believed. God would have a world full of robots on bended knee worshipping her.

With free will, and the ability to choose to do good or not, and the ability to have faith and believe, or not, comes responsibility for those choices.

So, God has limited herself by refusing to interfere, or intervene with mankind. Any external act to help one person, or to make changes in the world interferes with our free will and responsibility.

God, compassionate and caring about our situation watches and respects our choice to have free will by letting us be responsible for the things that we do.

Answer 7

God can do no evil. He can not look on evil. That is why He turn His back on His own Son. When Jesus took upon Himself the Crimes of man, God could not look upon Him.

We are apart as much as we are his creation, his children (if by faith you believe). Given the choice to choose Him or reject Him. We have been given that choice.

It is a question of faith, to believe in something unseen. Not understood by the understanding of man. Faith is the evidence of things unseen, of understandings beyond limitations. Beyond the mortal limits of life as we know it. God is that he is, of his own understandings that many may never know because it makes no logical sense to us. But it never takes away from what God is.

How does one explain what can't be seen? When you understand that then you can understand God is.

Answer 8

although I am not a traditional christian and don't believe much of what is in the bible, I do believe in God and belive that god is only limited by our own personal limitations, since god works through each of us, for he has neither hands, feet, eyes, mouth.

Answer 9

The only limit God has is one He's imposed on Himself in that He offers you free will in deciding to love Him or not.

He gives you that choice and stays out of it. Other than that, He can do anything.

Answer 10

God has no limits. We're God's creation. Kinda like if you drew a picture. You created it, it's a part of your talent, but it's seperate from you.