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I agree with all of that, even the part that judges me as having been judgemental, if that were indeed what I was doing. Its just a metric to assign importance.

It doesn't have to be any of the Christian gods. Yes, that was intended to trigger people, hehe. The OT God and the NT God are the same - morality is human ; God is unbounded and contains all - if both are true, then the God that most Christians are worshipping isn't accurate.

TallBrian 11mo ago

Love the nuances of conversations about God. We are bounded by our perspective and trying to describe something that encompasses everything -and not just that-might be the cause of everything. What blows my mind is scale variance in the physical universe. Are we to assume God loves us more or less than individual atoms or full galaxies. Or does God know us at all? Maybe we are like self aware gut biome of larger super-entities who move through their lives completely unaware of us. Is God self aware? Or perhaps we are the sense organs of God. Fun to ask questions. I only get annoyed when people claim to have answers. The idea that there is one way and only one way to be in relationship with God is so counterintuitive to the universe we see around us that it offends me.

Thanks for letting me rant. 🤣

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Comte de Sats Germain 11mo ago

Its a good rant. I'd say God is infinite, and so any positive statement about him is probably incomplete. Its only apophatic statements that can be true, and then very few even of those. The thing is, people understand statements in a reductive way - if I say, "God is love," then people understand that as, "God is not hate." Or I say, "God is within," and people understand it as, "God is not external." God's everywhere and everything, even the contradictions. Even destruction is a version of God's love. Even suffering. Every "thing" is a symbol of God, both physical and mental, and every process and transformation is symbolic of God's will.

There's no way to know anything, not truly, unless the knowledge is dependent on the context defined by humans, which is always incomplete. Complete knowledge would require complete being - God is the complete being, the reality itself. That's not reductive - God can have all other attributes without losing any possible attributes, because thats the meaning of completeness. If someone has met some measure of God's personality, that doesn't mean God isn't reality itself as well. No subtraction could ever reduce an infinite, or complete, entity. The "fullness" of God, which sometimes people talk about, is the unbounded potential and creative force, the "dao" or spirit that moves within and precedes all things.

Now I sit back and wait to see if a religious person attacks, lol.