You needn’t think of God as an external, visual man in the sky. God lives within each of us. Look within your self, not out there in the sky.
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people who have a problem with "visual man in the sky" are shallow rebellious fucking retards. who cares what they do...
Of course "god" can mean incredibly varying concepts to each person.
You and I probably have perfectly overlapping definitions for "dog", "hand", "cloud", "bitcoin" even.
God is something wholly different.
What is your definition of god?
There's a whole lot of stuff that I cannot touch, see or feel but I am sure it's there, just outside the reach of my own senses. I am talking about weird mystical stuff like hartmann nodes, the real meaning of the pyramids, rhabdomancy, probably even "ghosts" and the the thing that the anime Evangelion called LCL.
I do not worry myself with those things though because they do not come to me naturally, and the implications are huge for a human to understand. And I already have plenty of things I can personally intervene on, yet to explore.
I don't call the aforementioned things "god". They are just on a dimension of reality that I cannot perceive.
Tillich defines God as “the ground of all being.” This is my favorite definition, though “the supreme self,” “the self of the world,” “the consciousness collective,” and “the void” all resonate as well.
God is all that is and is not. I am that I am sums it up so elliptically!
Exo 3:14 KJV And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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