The God problem (part 1)

[SarahM32]

78. Nice effort. Here's just a few thoughts about it.

I think most religious people don’t know how to abandon "religious" ideas that are out of date, antiquated, superstitious, and simply wrong.

However, I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea that God is a supernatural uncreated reality and the world a natural created reality, if we recognize the it is all One and the uncreated reality is the essence of the created reality. And I don't think the biblical cosmology posits a two-tiered universe. It is One.

I also don't think that the Bible "mandates the notion of God as a person."

The authors of the different texts in the Judeo-Christian Bible are contradictory in their characterization of God, and while in some instances God is depicted as “I” or “Him” or “He,” in many other instances God is depicted as what God is, the formless, eternal, infinite Divine Light and universal cosmic consciousness that can be realized only from within.

Even King David recognized God as the Divine Light, such as in Psalm 4:6, where David says: “Lord, lift up the Light of your countenance upon us.” And in Psalm 27:1 he says: “The Lord is my Light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?”

King Solomon went much further, and Solomon’s Book of Wisdom states:

“Wisdom is beneficent and kind. She is the aura of the power of God, the radiance of the eternal Divine Light, a spotless mirror of God. She renews all things, and passing into holy souls from age to age, She produces friends of God and prophets. She is firm, but Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all Her paths are peace. She is a Tree of Life to them that lay hold upon Her. And Wisdom is far better than weapons of war."

God is the eternal Divine Light, as Solomon knew. That is why even Jesus of Nazareth said to his disciples: "You have not heard the voice of God or seen God’s shape at any time." (John 5:37) And Jesus even said: "God is greater than I." (John 14:28)

When Jesus said "only through me can you see the face of the Father," he was not talking about his physical person, but of his spiritual aura. That is why in verses 7 thu 9 of John 1 John says “the true Light lightens every person born into the world.”

Jesus of Nazareth said such things knowing what preceding Jewish prophets wrote, that "God is not a man, nor a son of man" (Numbers 23:19), and that no man can be compared to God. In fact, Isaiah says we should not liken God to any man; nor regard any man equal to God; nor worship any idol or image of any man. That is what Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25, Isaiah 42:8, Isaiah 43:10-11 and Isaiah 46:5 mean.

In the ignored Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Jesus is quoted as saying that "All natures, all formed things, all creatures exist in and with one another and will again be resolved into their own roots, because the nature of matter is dissolved into the roots of its nature alone."

This is very similar to the Taoist concept of Oneness which states that "All things derive their life from it [Tao], All things return to it, and it contains them."

In other words, God is the eternal, infinite, omnipresent Divine Light-Energy-Source of our existence, the Universal Cosmic Consciousness, the Essence of all life and form, and the primordial vibration or "Word" that is made flesh in all of us.

Therefore, before you write Part 2, I would suggest you read an article on The Nature of God.
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