Nothing is separate from God insofar as everything’s existence is contingent on Him. He is Being itself but that does not mean everything is God. I am not God. I am not perfect. I do my best to cooperate with His Grace to strive towards perfection but that is not something I or anyone else can ever attain in this life.
If everything is perfect as is then why do we throw people in jail? Correct others? Teach kids how to comport themselves?
I'm sorry you were taught that. Almost all of us were.
You are god, but I can't convince you with words. Try looking for yourself. Try looking for where you end and everything else begins. Try finding time other than in your imagination. Try to stop grasping for the next moment. It doesn't exist. Be still. There is god right before your eyes.
I actually wasn’t taught it, at least not in a conventional sense. I sought out the truth, largely because of bitcoin actually. I thank God’s grace.
It seems we have different definitions of “god”. I am referencing the Christian God but if you were to abstract it further, it would be akin to the Neoplatonic conception of “The One”. Aquinas uses descriptions such as “Prime Mover”, “First Cause”, “Non Contingent Being”, etc. None of those descriptions could possibly apply to more than one being.
It seems for you, the equivalent of that wouldn’t be an individual but maybe space and time (what I would call creation). But you say to find time other than in my imagination, I’m not sure if you’re suggesting time does not exist in objective reality. However, I do agree with the sentiment that we should find a way to be holy and sanctify the present instead of worrying about the past or future.
