What is God Anyways
What have you been worshipping?
Who is God anyway?
This question is broad, more profound than realized. While different world religions all believe in God, it is not the same God for each.
Let’s look at traditional definitions of God and why they are flawed:
- God is the supreme being, creator, and ruler of the universe. He is worshipped in monotheistic religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. As there are multiple universes, this definition becomes more localized than universal, since the Supreme being is only limited to a certain universe and subject to changes and laws. God becomes more of the King or president of a particular religion.
- God is also the source of all moral authority and the principal object of faith. This also limits this God to religious points of view rather than the earlier definition.
- God is often described as perfection, omnipotent, omniscient, this becomes more of the Universe itself rather than the personification of a deity. The only flaw in this definition is that this perfection has its counterpart. I would personally adhere to both imperfection and perfection as part of the Universal Spirit; thus, the part and the whole are one. The reality is that God is all that there is, including evil and good. Not only am I part of this, but I am a manifestation of God as well.
- God can also refer to a manifestation or aspect of this being, or to the force or effect of this being.
- In some religions, there are multiple gods or goddesses who control various aspects of nature or human affairs. This represents the definition of deities rather than God.
- A god can also be a physical manifestation or symbol of a deity. For example, a statue, a tree, a river, an animal etc. It’s another representation of a deity and a gateway to higher dimensions.
Why are there so many confusions about God?
In Christianity for example, if you read the Bible clearly, you will notice the God of the Old Testament is not the same God Jesus was talking about: John 4:22 “You worship what you do not know…”
If you look back, people worshipped the river, the sun, the moon, nature and so forth. They knew these things provided anything they ever wanted, and so it was “This Highest and closest Power of Creation” to them. At least they were more connected to these forces of nature knowing they could provide for them. In addition, they were gateways to higher spiritual wisdom than their own.
In contrast to this, modern religion isolates a person from their reality because people believe in different concepts of God that have no relation to anything they know or even have a connection to anything they know. They have given all their power to religious books, religion, preachers, and teachings. They are pushed away from the true connection with this Source of creation by those things.
Who is God to me?
To me God is a relative absolute. Think about it for a minute, infinite is just a concept, because if infinite exists then no one can ever really prove it, so with our human understanding saying that God is the absolute, is just a concept just as simple as saying the ocean is vast or space is vast, not knowing whether it has definite boundaries or not. Because we are talking about something too remote.
So, what about the Source of all things, the Almighty Creator? What about it? Isn’t that just an assumption that there is The Almighty Creator? If this is the case, according to science, then the theoretical Big Bang is God, as it is believed to have exploded and created everything? And if that is the case, is it long forgotten? And was it just an accident? Of course not.
I can relate it to the relationship between an individual and society. A child has parents, where he/she can ask them anything and get from them. But then these parents live in a society, where it can provide all the needs they need. However, this society has another larger community which becomes a government, yet the government has a global community.
The closer you are to this God, the more effective it is, just as a child does not have to know anything about the government to get a new toy. But as they grow, they know more and create more connections with different people and so on. Though the child does not worship its parents, they still represent the closest thing it has to the government and the outside world.
Therefore, it is not about how complex this God is, but how close you can relate to this, and this is how you can develop a relationship with this and grow in spirituality. So, God is an ever-growing understanding and not an absolute or static thing that you think you know about.
If this is the highest and closest connection with you at this moment, it can be an ancestor, a deity, nature spirit, or whatever is in your highest interest.
What is God Anyways
What have you been worshipping?
Who is God anyway?
This question is broad, more profound than realized. While different world religions all believe in God, it is not the same God for each.
Let’s look at traditional definitions of God and why they are flawed:
- God is the supreme being, creator, and ruler of the universe. He is worshipped in monotheistic religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. As there are multiple universes, this definition becomes more localized than universal, since the Supreme being is only limited to a certain universe and subject to changes and laws. God becomes more of the King or president of a particular religion.
- God is also the source of all moral authority and the principal object of faith. This also limits this God to religious points of view rather than the earlier definition.
- God is often described as perfection, omnipotent, omniscient, this becomes more of the Universe itself rather than the personification of a deity. The only flaw in this definition is that this perfection has its counterpart. I would personally adhere to both imperfection and perfection as part of the Universal Spirit; thus, the part and the whole are one. The reality is that God is all that there is, including evil and good. Not only am I part of this, but I am a manifestation of God as well.
- God can also refer to a manifestation or aspect of this being, or to the force or effect of this being.
- In some religions, there are multiple gods or goddesses who control various aspects of nature or human affairs. This represents the definition of deities rather than God.
- A god can also be a physical manifestation or symbol of a deity. For example, a statue, a tree, a river, an animal etc. It’s another representation of a deity and a gateway to higher dimensions.
Why are there so many confusions about God?
In Christianity for example, if you read the Bible clearly, you will notice the God of the Old Testament is not the same God Jesus was talking about: John 4:22 “You worship what you do not know…”
If you look back, people worshipped the river, the sun, the moon, nature and so forth. They knew these things provided anything they ever wanted, and so it was “This Highest and closest Power of Creation” to them. At least they were more connected to these forces of nature knowing they could provide for them. In addition, they were gateways to higher spiritual wisdom than their own.
In contrast to this, modern religion isolates a person from their reality because people believe in different concepts of God that have no relation to anything they know or even have a connection to anything they know. They have given all their power to religious books, religion, preachers, and teachings. They are pushed away from the true connection with this Source of creation by those things.
Who is God to me?
To me God is a relative absolute. Think about it for a minute, infinite is just a concept, because if infinite exists then no one can ever really prove it, so with our human understanding saying that God is the absolute, is just a concept just as simple as saying the ocean is vast or space is vast, not knowing whether it has definite boundaries or not. Because we are talking about something too remote.
So, what about the Source of all things, the Almighty Creator? What about it? Isn’t that just an assumption that there is The Almighty Creator? If this is the case, according to science, then the theoretical Big Bang is God, as it is believed to have exploded and created everything? And if that is the case, is it long forgotten? And was it just an accident? Of course not.
I can relate it to the relationship between an individual and society. A child has parents, where he/she can ask them anything and get from them. But then these parents live in a society, where it can provide all the needs they need. However, this society has another larger community which becomes a government, yet the government has a global community.
The closer you are to this God, the more effective it is, just as a child does not have to know anything about the government to get a new toy. But as they grow, they know more and create more connections with different people and so on. Though the child does not worship its parents, they still represent the closest thing it has to the government and the outside world.
Therefore, it is not about how complex this God is, but how close you can relate to this, and this is how you can develop a relationship with this and grow in spirituality. So, God is an ever-growing understanding and not an absolute or static thing that you think you know about.
If this is the highest and closest connection with you at this moment, it can be an ancestor, a deity, nature spirit, or whatever is in your highest interest.
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