Funny thing about God, we can only know about God, what God is willing to reveal to us. As a result, we can never fully comprehend what it is about God that we don't understand. Neverending discussions are sure to follow.:thumb: Personally, I have chosen to follow God's Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I have freedom because I don't need to convince a single other person that I am right in order for me to know that I am.
But God gives some of us vision, and some not . . . :yelwink2: Indeed. We have no way of knowing what God is like or what he expects from us. And neither do the self-proclaimed holy men who profess to interpret the "word of God" to us. I venerate the message, morality, and ethic of The Great Teacher, but I do not confuse him with God. The Son-O-God concept seems to conflict with the whole "One God" precept of monotheism itself. And I never have understood this Holy Ghost business. Faith is magical in that way.
I mentioned in a few posts up that our immortal souls are in the image of God, not our physical bodies. I would argue he gives us all the vision, and some don't see it. We can know what God is like and what he wants from us through reason. Even without devine revelation we can see reason alot about God through the natural law. The three persons of the Godhead are not three Gods, but 1 God who reveals himself as three persons with three roles. Think of red the researcher, red the LSU fan, and read the guy who likes burgers from George's. All are the one you but they are different faces of the one you.
through his word, supposedly. and thru the holy spirit, too, i guess. a. you sound like a muslim. b. i dont get why he never came out and said i am the son of god. it would be a lot easier to believe given the historical evidence of his life. no one understands it. even the ones that believe in it.
Maybe an animal's uniqueness faster returns to the unity of god's "soul", but I believe in the conservation of energy and the conservation of soul. I think animals, in some ways, are more godlike than humans, in that they seem to always live in a state of ecstasy. On a side note, I don't believe Jesus ever wanted to be worshiped.
I can accept this. Everyone has his own reason and his own God concept. What makes the God-concept of Hebrew mythology more holy than Norse, Greek, Roman, or Native American God concepts? God is God, is he not? Does he not provide reason to these peoples as well? Why do every original ethnic group on the planet have widely diverse religious beliefs . . . perhaps it is because "we can know what God is like and what he wants from us through reason". My point being that we really cannot know what God wants, we only know what we imagine that he wants based on our own reason. Why is this necessary? I see why it was important for Christians to deify Jesus. Why the Holy Ghost? Who needs him?
Faith is believing something even though you may not fully understand it. As you know, some people have it, some people don't. For the people who have faith, no its not a problem and vice versa.
Red and LSUsupafan: Why do you keep referring to God as he and/or even giving God a human-like quality? I don't see any reasonable argument to be doing this. Not to mention we would have 0 idea if God would have any vested interest in us anyway, we are assuming God is good which is a fallacy.
