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Originally Posted by Max Power  I don't see how it's really helpful to consider that there is a god outside of us. Are we not god? Even the bible says that we were created in God's image. I was brought up a catholic and I never understood why we had to go to a place to worship god. Apart from a gathering of community, it seemed pointless.
If god created me I must be god or a part of it, but at what level does that make me god? Can I have god powers when ever it suits me? When it suits other people (other parts of god) or only when it suits god?
I don't believe in a god that is in a place somewhere, it makes the whole thing very seperated and distant. So if god isn't out there, it must be in here and in here must be this present moment and only this present moment. People don't like that because it becomes unmanagable. How can god or a consciousness power be you or with you, but not everywhere else?
Could it be that god or consciousness is one thing in one place playing a very clever game of denial to sense an existance that is not of itself?
Works for me 
I don't believe in god (just don't tell him I said that ok? )
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Max, you are playing games with yourself and projecting your doubts onto this forum.
You are a cradle catholic and you will die one. Everyone returns to their roots at the point of death, whether they are Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish or Atheist.
You are going round in circles. If you can accept that, you will die a peaceful death.
You always return to the teachings your parents gave you as a child.
Most self examination and seeking after the meaning of life is a complete waste of time.
Just work hard and keep your nose clean, simple as that.
Do you really know what consciousness is? No, because it is a phoney word that has been going round in new age circles for the last 50 years or so as some kind of substitute for God.
All you're trying to do is escape from God and run the show yourself. Why?