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DaBears Senior Member Offline Posts: 254	Who or what is God?? Mar 8^th, 2007 at 10:44pm Anyone think they know the answer??
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I Am Dude Super Member Offline Posts: 1462 Gender:	Re: Who or what is God?? Reply #1 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 12:32am Check out the thread God or No God. Many members ideas are in this thread. http://www.afterlife-knowledge.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1167887666
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Reply #2 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 8:27am

I Am Dude wrote on Mar 9^th, 2007 at 12:32am:

Check out the thread God or No God. Many members ideas are in this thread.

http://www.afterlife-knowledge.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1167887666

Thanks for bringing the thread up, it was very entertaining to read. Where or where did Ra go i wonder?

Dude, I agree with what you said in this thread about using a different name for 'god'.

'All Yet One', 'The All That Is' or 'The Oneness' is a more appropriate name to articulate the way I conceive of god. To think that there is a big daddy god in the sky smiting all the sinners and non-believers. Just comes to show how we really create our own reality and some religious folks have a wild imagination Shocked

or a very gullible.

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Reply #3 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 1:32pm

I'll add this, in Bruce Moen terms, since this is his site.

If we can be aware of and think of everything that exists within our awareness, if a disc/oversoul can be aware of and think of everything that exists with its awareness, if the planning intelligence can be aware of and think of everything that exists within its several universes of existence, then why can't that which is the source of everything be aware of and think of that which exists within its awareness?

Also, it is true that we help with process of creation, but this doesn't mean that the divine source that got the ball rolling doesn't have something to do with the process of creation.

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Reply #4 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 4:47pm

Good question!

Two things come to mind. One is a Zen koan.
"What is the Buddha?"
"The bush in the bottom of the garden."
"And who is he who knows this?"
"He is a golden haired lion."

The other is that after struggling with the same question for umpteen centuries, St Thomas Aquinas finally used the term "The Uncaused Cause".

Kinda puts kinks in the brain thinking about it.

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DaBears Senior Member Offline Posts: 254	Re: Who or what is God?? Reply #5 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 5:34pm Hey thanks for the replies!! I agree, that God is not some big guy up in the sky!! Thanks Dude for the thread!!
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Reply #6 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 7:05pm

recoverer wrote on Mar 9^th, 2007 at 1:32pm:

I'll add this, in Bruce Moen terms, since this is his site.

If we can be aware of and think of everything that exists within our awareness, if a disc/oversoul can be aware of and think of everything that exists with its awareness, if the planning intelligence can be aware of and think of everything that exists within its several universes of existence, then why can't that which is the source of everything be aware of and think of that which exists within its awareness?

Also, it is true that we help with process of creation, but this doesn't mean that the divine source that got the ball rolling doesn't have something to do with the process of creation.

I don't necessarily negate the 'divine source that got the ball rolling'. I believe that we are extensions of that source that is constantly expanding. Therefore we are all the divine source. Separation is an illusion Wink

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Reply #7 - Mar 9^th, 2007 at 7:37pm

Do you believe that the source has some sort of plan in mind, or plans didn't come into being until the extensions came into being and it is sort of a big cosmic free for all?

Never say die wrote on Mar 9^th, 2007 at 7:05pm:

recoverer wrote on Mar 9^th, 2007 at 1:32pm:

I'll add this, in Bruce Moen terms, since this is his site.

If we can be aware of and think of everything that exists within our awareness, if a disc/oversoul can be aware of and think of everything that exists with its awareness, if the planning intelligence can be aware of and think of everything that exists within its several universes of existence, then why can't that which is the source of everything be aware of and think of that which exists within its awareness?

Also, it is true that we help with process of creation, but this doesn't mean that the divine source that got the ball rolling doesn't have something to do with the process of creation.

I don't necessarily negate the 'divine source that got the ball rolling'. I believe that we are extensions of that source that is constantly expanding. Therefore we are all the divine source. Separation is an illusion Wink

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Reply #8 - Mar 10^th, 2007 at 3:24am

hi there daBears.. here is a phrase found in the bible (I don't read the bible, just find a few things to be noteworthy about it) lol, always have to make disclaimers so people don't get the wrong idea..

when i don't know who, asked the question you just asked the answer that came back purportedly from God was "I am that I am."

so I am thinking what that means. the word "that". it must mean I am that, I am this and that and everything, god is everything. I am consciousness..have you heard that phrase "I am.? theres a song that goes like this "I am I said, to no one there, and no one heard not even the chair" so i would say god is permeation of life force and intelligence of the heart kind.

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Reply #9 - Mar 10^th, 2007 at 6:33pm

LaffingRain wrote on Mar 10^th, 2007 at 3:24am:

hi there daBears.. here is a phrase found in the bible (I don't read the bible, just find a few things to be noteworthy about it) lol, always have to make disclaimers so people don't get the wrong idea..

when i don't know who, asked the question you just asked the answer that came back purportedly from God was "I am that I am."

so I am thinking what that means. the word "that". it must mean I am that, I am this and that and everything, god is everything. I am consciousness..have you heard that phrase "I am.? theres a song that goes like this "I am I said, to no one there, and no one heard not even the chair" so i would say god is permeation of life force and intelligence of the heart kind.

I always thought that verse in the bible meant that. Sounds pretty much like what God is.

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