Questions for those that have found God?

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by Daniela, Jun 3, 2011.

  1. SunLion

    SunLion Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    If there was a god he would answer you. No human commentary would be needed.




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  2. arthur itis

    arthur itis Senior Member

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    God isn't interested in being blatantly "apparent". He hides Himself.

    Why?

    It is in God's interest for those who seek Him to find Him without the assistance of the empirical 5 senses. Why, you may ask? Because the organ needed to seek Him, find Him, experience Him, sense Him, and follow Him is the human spirit, which is deeper than our mind, emotion, or will.

    God is spirit, and those who seek Him must seek Him by means of their spirit.

    God is not an intellectualism, so using the mind to "find God" is misleading and vain. It is as effective to try to eat a chicken leg with one's ear.

    God is not, strictly speaking, merely a "feeling", though one might say that there is a "feeling" associated with the joy and the peace related to God's presence.

    God is not a picture on the wall, or a statue.

    God is Spirit.
     
  3. Sir-.-'nOOBalloT

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    There is something missing in ur life but u are not alone in fact we all feel the same how could we feel any different… disproportions between our inner fantasy and reality are so huge that we may be willing to give up anything for fantasy to become reality. Who needs logic who needs the hardship of the every day life who can take this weight that grinds on us ever getting deeper as we walk through life wouldn’t be great to develop a second personality in our minds eye that could share the load on our shoulders a groomed self image that is perfect omnipotent in every way, personally tailored for us uniquely adapted to fill whatever is missing in our experience.

    Here’s a thought now am speaking for my self but I think that I am simply jealous of these ppl who have found god to find the confidence to believe that I know everything and I have felt everything there ever was and is…Dame it I know I am the center of my universe yet I have no power over it I am but a child jealous of a toy.
     
  4. arthur itis

    arthur itis Senior Member

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    That's not necessarily what it's like to "find God".

    In my experience, God only lets you know things on a "need to know" basis. Jesus said to his disciples once, "I have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now."

    Mostly, knowing God is a matter of life and peace, not making us "all-knowing" in any sense. In fact, the record of Genesis tells of how the subtle one tempted Eve by suggesting that in partaking of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil", one's "eyes will be opened", and could be "as God, knowing good and evil".

    God's intention, as revealed in the bible, is not that man would be supplied with knowledge of good and evil, but with life. The realm of knowledge is not identical to the realm of life. Life trumps knowledge, as far as the bible reveals. This is not to say that we should ignore education. It is to say that some forms of education lead to life, and others do not. Even the bible, misused, ushers us into death. This is why the apostle Paul, in his second letter to the Corinthians, said the following:

    (chapter 3)

    "5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, 6 Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills , but the Spirit gives life.

    Many today only know the bible according to the black and white, and receive nothing but death. They are merely using the human intellect, and not the human spirit, in reading.
     
  5. chrisdotdo

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    To really find "God," you have to merge with It. To merge with It is to lose your "awareness." Your "awareness" would be totally destroyed. When that happens, the God mode would completely switch on. Again, your memory of your past would completely be erased. Therefore, you become God in the Infinite Void -- totally Alone with no recollection of your earthly and ethereal realities. Do you know why God is full of love? It carries no baggage. It doesn't have any committees to worry about. No outside dramas. God Mode is totally separate from the universe it created. God is totally oblivious of what goes on in our collective Universe. The One could care less. The god(s), to whom most people pray, are not that One. Again, they have to merge with the One to be the One, to be the God (with a capital "G"). What price Godhead?! Do we really want to be God -- all alone?? Enjoy your spiritual crisis. At least, you have that luxury to even think it's a crisis. In the "end," things will work out, regardless of everything.
     
  6. organikness

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    Hi

    I am a human

    My intuition perceives God as the divinity inside me
     
  7. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    I don't see why this is so obvious.
     
  8. heeh2

    heeh2 Senior Member

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    This sentence is not the response you're looking for.
     
  9. Jimmy P

    Jimmy P bastion of awesomeness

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    I wouldn't say I have found God, but I have a good idea.
    For me it was a combination of reading holy scriptures, books on spirituality, atheism, religion, lots of reflection and contemplation, meditation, and probably most importantly, psychedelic drugs.

    I don't subscribe to any religion, indeed, if forced to label myself I think the most fitting would be atheist, yet I have a firm belief in God. (God being very much a subjective definition; for me, the abundance of love that is the backbone of all existence.)

    Explaining my findings in words would be difficult and time consuming, and ultimately, I believe, futile. You can not be explained this understanding.
     
  10. TheGhost

    TheGhost Auuhhhhmm ...

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    I hate to repeat myself BUT .... you can't have it both ways.
     
  11. themnax

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    god isn't hiding. it just isn't ownded by christianity, or any other system of belief, and it isn't obliged to resemble what ANYone thinks they know about it.

    it doesn't have very much to do with anything either, because it chooses not to have anything to do with anything.
     

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