Have you guys ever watched I Heart Huckabees? They explained the "blanket theory"- using a blanket, they point out that if you think of the blanket as the Universe, one person is here, another is there, and Earthquake is there, a war is over there, someone is dying over there, someone is celebrating a birthday there (pointing to different parts of the blanket) that they are all part of the same blanket.
I'm not saying the Christian God isn't a part of God. But maybe it's just one face. Over there on the other side of God, people see a different perspective of the same thing. If you look at them seperately, they may appear to have many dissimilarities, but if you zoom out you'll realize they are the same.
2007-04-12 16:28:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
After pondering on that, one realizes that not only is God the same, but if you zoom out more, we are the same as God, as an arm is part of a hand, and they are all part of the same body.
2007-04-12 16:29:11 · update #1
makemeas- there are many similarities as well. That seems to point to more truth than the differences.
2007-04-12 16:33:50 · update #2
I was talking to a friend about this the other day and he said...
"The whole thing is bigger than any of us could even imagine. "
2007-04-12 16:33:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is falling into the relative theory that all faiths lead to God. All roads go to the same place. This is a highly popular belief today which allows people to do whatever they want in the religious life because they will all be getting to the same place.
In reality - this can't be true. I hate to break it to you.
But take a good look at all the beliefs in the world. Look at how different and varied they are. How can you say that each one of these has a snap shot of God. Some say there is one God, some say two, others say there are MILLIONS of gods out there.
The various world religions do not support each other. They contridict severely. To say that they are all part of God is to say that God has a good case of MPD.
You also talk about each of us being a part of God. I have never understood why someone would actually want to believe this. How can you have a relationship with God when you are part of God? How do you experience God, know Divine love or who do you pray to when you are in need? Do you pray to yourself, experience yourself and love yourself?
God can be everywhere - but God is also seperate from this world. This allows us to know and love God.
2007-04-12 23:37:40 · answer #2 · answered by noncrazed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, we sure have a variety of world views here.
I will allow that.
Be careful how you deal with questions like this because it is very important to control the direction of your thoughts.
Don't blow with the wind or look to others for approval. Don't compare your vision about who you really are with others.
(You do have a vision, right?)
Experience the diversity, but do not let it consume you.
These disagreements are the root cause of our wars.
Just make sure there is harmony within yourself, and psst... hey buddy... yes, God is bigger that Christianity.
IMHO
(don't forget to find the fun in this!)
2007-04-13 03:23:13 · answer #3 · answered by flip33 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is bigger than anything. But different Religions show major contradictions on the nature of God and cannot be taken together.
FYI God intervened directly in the affairs of mankind by becoming a man for a time and sacrificing Himself out of love for us.
So man could not have created religion.
2007-04-12 23:32:54 · answer #4 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course if you leave god out of the discussion completely, nothing changes. That means including him is completely superfluous to any observation you can make.
If you have any spark of intelligence you understand that you could include Popeye the sailor just as easily and nothing would change.
So why don't you go pray to Popeye?
2007-04-12 23:33:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a difference between people who are open, listening and thinking and those who are simply making simplistic retourts not wnating to think at all.
This was a wonderfull statement! Thank you for sharing this this evening! I believe _ _ _ is imersurable, so yes.
Peace!
2007-04-13 00:21:15 · answer #6 · answered by Jamie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God is a spirit . in the beginning his spirit moves over the water and he speaks it all into being , he breathes his spirit into the dust ans makes aman from dust alive his spirit is the origin of the spirit in us and wants to return to God so we sek to pray and get closer
2007-04-12 23:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the reason there is Christianity. Your theory is incorrect.
2007-04-12 23:33:59 · answer #8 · answered by carpentershammerer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God (or supernatural force) created man, man created religion.
2007-04-12 23:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by Gordon Freeman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very nice
2007-04-13 00:00:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋