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In reply to the discussion: What if God is intentionally hiding? [View all]SarahM32
(270 posts)37. But what I said was that a person can know it, even though it's hard to describe.
As I already said:
Human beings who have actually "witnessed" or seen or experienced what God really is are at a loss to describe it, because it is indescribable and unfathomable. But the authors of the religious texts in the Judeo-Christian traditions often referred to God as "He" or "Father" for lack of a better way to describe God.
Solomon is one who spoke of Wisdom as the "spotless mirror of God" and he assigned female gender to "Her" (Wisdom). And that is consistent with Kabbalistic Jewish terminology in which Wisdom is the female aspect and Understanding the male.
The author of The Nature of God offers this definition of God, that it is the Divine Light Energy-Source of our existence, the eternal, infinite, omnipresent Essence of all life and form, the Great Spirit-Parent of all, and the unspeakable, primordial "Word" that is made flesh in us all. He says God is within, above and around us all the time, but only when our "eye is single" may we see or realize the reality of God -- only when we transcend the separate-self ego and see beyond the illusion of duality.
Therefore, a person can know what God is, having witnessed or realized or experience it, but it's very difficult to describe it. That's why the author of the article I cited offers that description.
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or go with Lucretius, the gods, if they exist are indifferent and impotent.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#16
God the Father is not hiding he is letting mankind rule the earth as man sees fit.
part man all 86
Sep 2012
#7
so at some time in the past your gods acted in the real world? Just not now?
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#17
What if the nature of God defies description and is unfathomable? (And, about the "hidden" aspect)
SarahM32
Sep 2012
#19
Then you all should stop worrying about His Unfathomableness and get on with life.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#23
But what I said was that a person can know it, even though it's hard to describe.
SarahM32
Sep 2012
#37
actually the agnostic view is that the existence of god cannot be known, not that god is unknowable.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#32
Because God is unfathomable, it doesn't mean one cannot see and feel what it is.
SarahM32
Sep 2012
#40
If god is intentionally hiding from us, then god is a bigger douchebag than we thought.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#20