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Subject People have fundamentally different views of what God is.

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DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity — actual or potential — on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity.

Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is functional on the following seven levels:

Static —1. self-contained and self-existent Deity.

2. Potential — self-willed and self-purposive Deity.

3. Associative — self-personalized and divinely fraternal Deity.

4. Creative — self-distributive and divinely revealed Deity.

5. Evolutional — self-expansive and creature-identified Deity.

6. Supreme — self-experiential and creature-Creator-unifying Deity. Deity functioning on the first creature-identificational level as time-space overcontrollers of the grand universe, sometimes designated the Supremacy of Deity.

7. Ultimate — self-projected and time-space-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity expression as effective overcontrollers and absonite upholders of the master universe. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the grand universe, this absonite function in the master universe is tantamount to universal overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity.

The finite level of reality is characterized by creature life and time-space limitations. Finite realities may not have endings, but they always have beginnings — they are created. The Deity level of Supremacy may be conceived as a function in relation to finite existences.

The absonite level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the transcendence of time and space. Absoniters are not created; they are eventuated — they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite phenomenon is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity.

The absolute level is beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On Paradise, time and space are nonexistent; the time-space status of Paradise is absolute. This level is Trinity attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity expression is not fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are manifest.

Simple Watson.
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Original Message 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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