Non-dogmatic spiritual people: what's your concept of God?

Question

I truly believe we come to the physical plane to understand the nature of love and connectedness by its absence (at times) and to understand cause and effect by experiencing time, which does not exist on the physical plane. We are God experiencing herself, as the saying goes. What's your view?

Answer 1

God is the origin, prime cause of everything and, by definition, he must be eternal.

Therefore we shouldn't consider the Creation as an event in time.

The creation and everything that exists, existed, or will exist must be intrinsic to the essence of God. It is like saying that the Universe is in God and God is in the Universe.

Which convinces me that the Creation is an eternal process that we perceive as Evolution simply because of our subjection to time. As our lifes are not eternal, we live in a sort of time-sharing.

This is what my logic neurons tell me.


My other side of the brain tells me that God is Love and his Love is in everything. How could he not be loving something or someone given that everything created is a part of his essence?

What about evil and pain then?

Maybe it is too hard for us to understand.
Maybe evil and pain are simply tools in a process of evolution and purification of our souls... Who knows?

How could we pretend to understand everything?

We hate pain and suffering, but look at Nature carefully.

You will see that pain and suffering are the norm, rather than the exception. Every creature struggles to compete, survive and reproduce while others succumb!

Who said our life should be a "roses garden" and no thorns?

Should we have an easy life and no struggles we would learn nothing!

Maybe that is precisely the cause of every civilization decline.

Have we reached that stage already?

I hope not!

Answer 2

I'll copy my explanation of how I see god from a previous answer I gave about it.

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give as straight an answer as I can, to the OP.

I'll try to explain it in... layers of sums.

1) Everything that is.
2) Everything that is *not*
3) #1+#2.
4) #3 that ever has, or will exist(ed).
5) #3 that ever has Not, nor will not exist(ed)
6) #4+#5
7) sum of #6 of all paralell dimensions that do, do not, has, has not, will, or will not exist, including this one.
8) anything thats left over in any way shape or form.
9) #7+#8. (at this point if this sum was totaled into one "object" it would have nothing of any sort, no particle, no energy, no nothing of any way shape form or imagination, including dark matter or whatever else, nothing left over outside of this sum)
10) #9+1. (that is, #9 as a whole being more than its parts)

#10 = the awareness that is part of this absolute gestalt sum.

if that hasn't imploded your head...
take that in reverse to the most microcosmic bit of the whole, and call that, say, "#-10"

#10=#-10, and #-10=#10. the whole IS every component part, and every component part is the whole.


look at it this way, if you flip a coin, you won't know which side will come up.
but if you made a simulation perfectly replicating the real coin flip, you could look at a certain set of variables, in this simulation, and absolutely know the outcome.
with God's absolute omniscience, all the variables are known, to an infinite degree, because God IS every aspect of the whole, where we would have to analize the sum of variables and how they inter-effect things, being that absolute awareness, this is just known as being absolutely aware of all that is, entirely, from our point of view, outside of time.
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Answer 3

I believe in a cosmic consciousness not a deity. The interconnectedness and spiritual oneness of all living things and yes I do believe that life on the material plane is part of a jouney of spiritual exploration. By experiencing seperateness from the true reality we grow as individual souls and return to the source as more enlightened and complete beings.

Answer 4

where did you get these views? Sounds self induced to me. I suppose since you are 'God herself' you have that authority. There is no way to verify your claims. All views are not equal there is the truth and there is a lie. Jesus said I am the truth. That is either the truth or it is a lie. I invite you to seriously investigate these claims that Christ made by reading the Gospel of John and reading the book by Lee Strobbell The Case For Faith. Lee at one time was an atheist just like me.

Answer 5

We are on this physical plane to learn lessons we need to know. Everything and every creature is connected on this plane with a current of the Divine running through all of it. I am you, you are me, etc. Yes we are learning cause and effect with a vengeance, so to speak. We are spirits having a physical experience.

Answer 6

Call it God, Gaia, Earth Mother, the Force, whatever you like, I see it as an integral part of who and what we are, how we survive, how we interconnect, and why we're here.

Basically, 'god' is like water. It's everywhere, it's in all of us. In fact, we are mostly made of 'god', as is every other living thing in the world. We cannot survive without it. It's in the air we breathe, it's in the food we eat, it is the essential ingredient that not only gives our lives meaning, but gives us life.

Some people prefer to get their 'god' carbonated and full of sugar, some prefer it fruity, some even like it fermented and mixed with alcohol, while others prefer it pure and distilled. The fact remains that we all need it one way or another. What galls me is the folks who condemn others for the way they get their 'god'. Some of them even argue about what the proper vessel is for receiving your 'god'. Some say it must be in a cut-crystal goblet, others in a Mickey Mouse tumbler, while others claim that is idolatry, and the only 'true' way to take your 'god' is in a humble cupped hand. Still others claim that the only correct way is for a priest to hand you your glass.

This spiritual force of 'god' is not sentient in the way we understand, with specific goals and proclamations, but it is necessary for us to live. We survive by having it within us. We get 'god' from our environment, and other people, and we give it back to our environment as well.

OK, the analogy is starting to break down a bit, but it's kinda like that.

Answer 7

Aeyna to me god is a word created by man who has misconstued the meaning for ones purpose. God is infinite, and therfore comes in many forms. IT is the "self" experiencing itself through the adversity of others. You are correct in saying that there is no time, because in essence all their is, is time. God is not meant to be defined, it is meant to be experienced through weakness, and strength. I have said this many times, but for me god is to feel something that my hands cannot touch, but yet I feel it touches me. To open our hearts, and feel connected to something more, when that more is ourselves. Their is no soul, we are the soul, the spiritual creature who has pieces of everyone, and everything scattered across the universe.
I wish you well.

Answer 8

I think of God as a living, loving, intelligent Aether, in which all of the universe lives and moves and has its being. It is infinitely large, and yet completely aware of you and of every thought and feeling you have. And capable of knowing every single life form in the entire universe to the same intimate extent.

Answer 9

We are all put here to learn a lesson. I was lacking something somewhere, so I've been sent here to experience 'life'. Should I not learn it, the lesson will keep repeating itself. So, I try to keep that in mind when times get tough here; I can't blame God or ask him why my life has been so hard. I have to accept the experience and know that He has in mind for me something greater when I'm gone.

Answer 10

"God" is a living entity that exists far beyond human comprehension. It is superhuman, advanced, and nearly infinitely intelligent and loving. More than one living being can be this way, but to be a god, it has to DESERVE worship, as opposed to demanding it. If a being demands your worship, it is not worthy of being called a god. Remember, "god" is not a name, but a title.