Concepts of God and Religion

[SarahM32]

117. Well, we'll see about that.

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I've already addressed your erroneous assumptions and claims about a so-called "cult," which doesn't exist. So there is only one part of that rant that deserves a response.

You see the Dao is not God and (from my previous life) your attempting to understand the Dao and using words about the Way automatically makes you wrong about the Path. You see no scholar of the Way would use the words "faith in the Tao" the sense of the translation is nearer to "trust that the Way is there," i.e. that is that somewhere there is a path of right thinking and action. To have faith means trusting blindly and you cannot be blind to follow the Path; what you must do is trust that, somewhere there is a path. But even that is wrong. You cannot see the Dao, you cannot touch the Dao, you cannot speak of the Dao. Returning to my current self, yes, these are paradoxes and sophistries.

Addressing your “previous self,” I see the Tao (Dao) as God, The Path, and The Way. It is All. Remember, the Taoist concept of Oneness is that "All things derive their life from it [Tao], All things return to it, and it contains them."

That’s like what it says in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, in which 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." The "nature of their roots" is the Tao, also known as God.

Therefore, there is little actual difference between the words “faith in the Tao” and “trust that the Way is there.” It depends on what you think the word “faith” means, and what you think the Way and the Path are. When really realized, there is only One.

A human being can “see” the Tao, and “see” God, but only when the seven “seals” of revelation or seven “chakras” are opened and one realizes and “sees” the divine reality within. However, you are right that we cannot touch the Tao. It is not a thing you can touch.

Addressing your “current self,” no, these are not “sophistries,” though they very well may appear to be paradoxes.
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