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Originally Posted by Amadeus  Let's face it, I am happy sitting down eating a pizza, but is it the right thing? |
Is that happiness, or pleasure?
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Originally Posted by judge45 So this something that is outside of me and is very powerful and is doing all it can to help me is not me, but likes me enough to aid me in a good way, whenever I need it, but only for my overall betterment???
That is a form of control that is outside of me and for me that is a crap way to live. It's crap because it's an existance of fear.
Maybe crap is too harsh a word, but it seems very limiting |
Where's the fear? I would understand if the aid was withheld unless you did what God wants, but that's not what we're considering here. So there is nothing to fear. The idea is that God helps you as long as you don't prevent him from doing so. Thus the only fear is the irrational fear of allowing something better than you to lead you. Irrational because
no harm will befall you, so there is nothing to fear.
It's the opposite of limiting; it provides you with opportunities which you, being a simple human, wouldn't ordinarily have available to you. All you have to do is say, "Yes, show me the path and I'll walk it." And suddenly you find yourself flying.
So I don't understand how this belief leads to an existence of fear, or how it's limiting. Crap is fine, it conveys your emotion effectively
Please note that this isn't my belief, and in fact I don't believe it has much basis in reality; there are a vast number of assumptions which can't be proven or disproved. I just find it interesting to consider the possibilities.
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Originally Posted by Simmiah So anyways, God is like what we think of ourselves. For me personally right now God is benign, benevolent, all knowing, & above..& outside of me. As I've read we begin to see God in ourselves more ...& God in others but I have only had brief glimpses of that level of reality myself. |
I've always considered the view of humans created in God's image to be extremely egotistical. We consider God a being of limitless power, yet somehow he's still like us?! I do more readily tolerate the idea that we're all part of God, albeit in a much much more limited form. But like God only in the same way that a grain of sand is like a volcano.