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People have fundamentally different views of what God is.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 252372:MV8xNzI3OTkzXzI4NjA2NjE1X0YxRkI5MzUy] God spelled backwards is dog. [/quote]
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Much of the misunderstandings and arguments people have about religion and faith has to do with their fundamental understanding of what God is for them. Until these differences are understood, very little common ground in our beliefs can be agreed upon.
For me God is a "Universal Consciousness", the combined total of all spiritual existence in this universe. In my view, this great Universal Consciousness is not a being that gets involved in our daily lives or our spiritual growth. We each control our own lives through our own individual inner spiritual self. WE decide what experiences we need next. WE decide what our life will be like in this and every other incarnation. As I have said before in other threads, we are each a drop of life in the ocean of God. An equal and perfect part of God. He is not a father to us, but a total of our higher selves and all life around us. We are like a cell in the body of God. We are each individual beings, but part of the whole we call God. He is no more involved in our daily lives than our body is involved in the growth of an individual cell in our physical body. We are a personal and individual part of the whole. That whole is God. Not our Father, but our whole.
These basic differences in understanding you and I have make all of our other views of life very different. With each of us seeing God so differently, how can we agree on other aspects of our reality?
Peace,
Fibonacci
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