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Originally Posted by MindReality  Can you see the lies of Satan making everyone believe that there is no personal God but only a universal source of energy? |
No I can't. Can you? Lies of Satan are what? How are those lies "making" everyone believe anything?
A personal God is a faith, so is universal source. Ideas that we can clinge to to have in our experience, if we so want to. A personal God sounds like something that is outside of me and it doesn't feel that way to me. God is inside of me, as far as I can tell. So is universal source - it wells up inside of me. Both are actually very personal.
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He has deceived the whole world about the truth of God. Why does he do that? It is so that people will not believe in salvation, which is expressed by the personal aspect of God, the trinity.
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This needs decoding for my understanding. Deceiving the world of what? Truth of God? What is truth of god? Is that another faith only belief? Trinity or whatever is very dogma-ish and has fractured the churches too. Believing in salvation also means being you have to be saved, right?
I'm actually kind of ignorant about what Christians believe since I haven't tried to believe it myself.
But wasn't one of Jesus's message that you can enter the kingdom of heaven now on earth with what you have - and actually that's where it is for real - in the Now? The whole idea of a heaven one has to wait for is overrated and breeds the idea that you can do anything bad and be forgiven. Mardi Gras? It's like God is set up to be someone you apologize to at the end of your life, instead of trying to do the better thing now. It's an old idea that was made by the church, not Jesus, to control people - to scare them into behaving and giving money.