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Post by fortharris on Jun 24, 2022 20:08:13 GMT
What are your answers to the following?
1. Where does God live?
2. What does God do there?
3. What do you become when you do all that God teaches you to do?
4. Does God know what you are thinking?
5. How must we think?
6. Does God hear what you say?
7. How must we speak?
8. Does God see what you do?
9. How must we behave?
10. How must we dress?
11. Does God live in other people too?
12. How must we treat other people?
13. When you have become like God, and then you become a teacher, who is really the teacher?
14. When you have become like God, and then you become a doctor, who is really the doctor?
15. Give your heart to God every day, starting from today.
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Post by joustos on Jun 24, 2022 22:00:33 GMT
When you ask about God, are you referring to Yahweh or Allah, or Zeus? The theologians of those religions have all the answers, which you can find also written in books and online. Perhaps you are thinking of an abstract God r any gpd that people may have. I will answer only one of your questions, with reference to any god anybody may have: God lives in any human person who believes in a god. A FACT to begin with: Inside our person we have many "simulacra" of human persons, such as parents, legislators, sports or movie stars, friends, intimate friends, madmen, criminals, etc. A simulacrum is not a mere visual image; it is a visual image, many images of the behaving/acting real person, the sound of his/her voice, the concept of his/her character or personality. If the real person fascinates us, his/her simulacrum continues to exert a fascination upon us. A simulacrum is a dynamic person within a person/soul, not a mere and powerless image or memory of somebody. [Some people or fanatics sometimes hallucinate as they experience a simulacrum as a real person in the same room, conversing, etc.] Man has invented gods, as the myths of all religions attest. They are socially transmitted. They can live in us. // Know thyself. |
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jun 25, 2022 16:41:38 GMT
1. He's omnipresent
2. Whatever He wants to
3. Undestand myself and the world
4. Yes
5. Hard
6. Yes
7. Politely
8. Yes
9. Gently
10. To not get a cold
11. Yes, I guess
12. To live in a good society
13. To become a human is more prior, and less possible for anyone without enough trainee
14. To become a person is more prior, and less possible for anyone without enough pressure
15. "Give your heart to God every day, starting from today" - A good idea!
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jun 25, 2022 16:44:00 GMT
When you ask about God, are you referring to Yahweh or Allah, or Zeus? The theologians of those religions have all the answers, which you can find also written in books and online. Perhaps you are thinking of an abstract God r any gpd that people may have. I will answer only one of your questions, with reference to any god anybody may have: God lives in any human person who believes in a god. A FACT to begin with: Inside our person we have many "simulacra" of human persons, such as parents, legislators, sports or movie stars, friends, intimate friends, madmen, criminals, etc. A simulacrum is not a mere visual image; it is a visual image, many images of the behaving/acting real person, the sound of his/her voice, the concept of his/her character or personality. If the real person fascinates us, his/her simulacrum continues to exert a fascination upon us. A simulacrum is a dynamic person within a person/soul, not a mere and powerless image or memory of somebody. [Some people or fanatics sometimes hallucinate as they experience a simulacrum as a real person in the same room, conversing, etc.] Man has invented gods, as the myths of all religions attest. They are socially transmitted. They can live in us. // Know thyself.There is only one God, and He is Christian |
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Post by joustos on Jun 25, 2022 20:30:01 GMT
Eugene, what Moses enjoined his people to do is to worship and serve ONLY one god, because the other gods were the gods of enemies and would not assist Israel. Christian theologians were against the polytheistic religions for various reasons and promoted the God of the Hebrews but nobody ever proved that there is only one God. I know, Jesus preached only one God, "our Father who art in heaven". The correct phrasing is "our father who ART heaven" -- the Ouranos [Sky] of the ancient Greeks, who was eventually displaced by Zeus, but he called Him EL (from the Arab pre-Islamic tradition). EL foresook Jesus on the cross and, therefore, should not be worshipped by Christians or anybody else. There is no "Christian God"......, or did Jesus displace EL? Historically/Theologically, Yes. But then God [Jesus] is in heaven, after the resurrection; he is not everywhere [omnipresent], as the Scriptures imply. // Sorry for this harsh reply.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jun 26, 2022 22:16:34 GMT
Eugene, what Moses enjoined his people to do is to worship and serve ONLY one god, because the other gods were the gods of enemies and would not assist Israel. Christian theologians were against the polytheistic religions for various reasons and promoted the God of the Hebrews but nobody ever proved that there is only one God. I know, Jesus preached only one God, "our Father who art in heaven". The correct phrasing is "our father who ART heaven" -- the Ouranos [Sky] of the ancient Greeks, who was eventually displaced by Zeus, but he called Him EL (from the Arab pre-Islamic tradition). EL foresook Jesus on the cross and, therefore, should not be worshipped by Christians or anybody else. There is no "Christian God"......, or did Jesus displace EL? Historically/Theologically, Yes. But then God [Jesus] is in heaven, after the resurrection; he is not everywhere [omnipresent], as the Scriptures imply. // Sorry for this harsh reply. Being honestly, Joustos, sometimes I don't really know about the details, and sometimes don't pay much attention to them exactly because I want only good for people: for you, Elizabeth, Jonbain, Karl, Clovis, Mayael, xxxxxxxxx, and everyone in this forum. I wish only good, and when doing this all the rest stays in blur. It's like when a kid doing something sincerely. That kid doesn't think too much about the details, while his heart is truly opened. The details may wander us far from the surface of our primary indeed wishes. However, it's also possible that they might be leading us to some unpleasant lands. It's uneasy to be totally certain. Both of these practice have several bad points, and not crystally transparent sides. Maybe this nitpicking style isn't the one we've been looking for? New generations will always be newer. |
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