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Originally Posted by Angela  The OP didn't specify a christian god. |
No, but he didn't say
a god, he said; "God", capital G which implies a specific deity. Now in which philosophies and religions do we meet, not just a god, but a god who is refered to as "God" either by virtue of being the only one or because that it is he/she/its name? The first that springs to mind are the abrahamic religions, there could be others but that's the most known ones. If so, the christian God is the same as the Abrahamic one so for SmartAlx to talk about the christian God in this context is appropriate and not a leap of faith...
I wish that some words could just have a more concrete meaning, like this word (or name, or whatever). Because everytime someone makes a post mentioning god in some way, either people start asking "well what god are you talking about?" or they start to discuss totally different meanings of the word. New agers have, for some reason, decided that they are going to use the word god/God for the belief in oneness, instead of having some more exclusive term like "Source", "Universal Mind" etc.
Why?
Is there like a need to latch on a tiny bit to ancient religions that you may have been involved with before, to try to find a bridge your old faith and your new eastern inspired ones? Well I'm not going to go down that quasi psycho-analyzing road. The Abrahamic God and this depersonalized "one with everything" god have nothing in common. Of course noone has a copyright on words but it both fascinates and ticks me.