Monotheism has set humanity back thousands of years… I truly believe that.

As someone who is spiritual I can respect all religious beliefs but in my personal opinion it does more bad than good, it is ideologically flawed, religion is just a pathway towards spiritual enlightenment and teaches you great practices based on ethics, community and compassion, but when bonded with ideology and the collective group it’s no wonder why tensions rise when there is more than just 1 set of beliefs.

I believe in God, and yet choose not to believe in religion, I view term God as a form of universal energy that can be unlocked from within, most of these religions take the viewpoint of an omnipotent, all knowing and all loving god, if that is the case then why do we see soo much suffering and disaster? That viewpoint is flawed.

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Free will and an omnipotent God are inherently at odds UNLESS, we are all manifestations of God. If free will doesn’t exist than no one can be judged for anything. To me it is self evident that either we are all one with God (and therefore each other)or there is no God and therefore this is all self emergent and all we have is each other. In either case, treat others as you wish to be treated and move through life with pride, integrity and purpose. Find meaning in relationships with people and the natural world and create the most beauty and love you are capable of. Basically: don’t be a dick.

This link below may or may not satisfy your question, but I hope your takeaway is that “God works all things work out for the good of those who love Him.” We may never know or comprehend what that good is in this lifetime, but we are not God, nor are we supposed to understand everything He does.

I trust and love God because He became a man (Jesus) who lived a sinless life and sacrificed Himself in my place, on the cross. God would have been a judicious judge for condemning me to hell, but He died and conquered death, rising again, so I wouldn’t have to die, and I will be raised again with Him when He returns. Praise God!

He is a gracious God, as the ultimate judge of everyone, He would be just in destroying all of humanity, yet He lets us live and have a chance to repent of our sins and trust in Him, Jesus Christ’s death on the cross to save us from the just consequences of our sin. It’s definitely a flip in understanding the world.

https://www.gotquestions.org/bad-things-good-people.html

I’m not ruling out God as I’ve just stated in my post, I’m ruling out the viewpoint of an all knowing, omnipotent and all good god, if you look closely at the wordplay you have just selected it’s quite evident that there is some sort of epistemic bias going on… with the universe being potentially 26 billion years old and trillions upon trillions of planets, why have we came to the conclusion that God is even a person/he/she????

CS Lewis > Jung

Because that’s how He revealed Himself to us in His Word, and the Son related to us in the man, Jesus Christ. God the Father and God the Spirit are also referred to as male pronouns, even though they’re exclusively spirits, and don’t have human male reproductive organs.

Have you had a divine personal revelation that you can say otherwise?

Nope, I just think it’s pretty human of us to embody God as an all mighty being (human like) with pronouns, when in fact the universe is larger than we can ever comprehend, on top of that there is contradiction and logical questions that need to be asked… The God you have pictured is all powerful and all good, so if we look at the world today we clearly have 2 scenarios: God is either not all powerful or not all good.

And that’s why I believe in God without religion or guidelines… God is always present, but it’s something we can unlock from within, to my eyes religious practices throughout history aim to put people in touch with their own spirituality, but humanity have a tendency and urge to belong, joining groups satisfies our need to belong, gain information and understanding through social comparison, define our sense of self and social identity, I respect religious people and have many friends and family members who are religious, but in my opinion it sets humanity back.

You clearly didn’t read the article I linked to, because you’re not responding to it. It responded to your first paragraph in this comment.

In response to the second, do you have the hubris to define what God is or is not? That’s exactly what you’re doing here. You’re saying God’s not defined by a 7,000 year old religion, yet you’re attempting to define God yourself. This is exactly like, “I’m new to Bitcoin, and I’m here to fix it.” Humble yourself and study what’s been established. There’s a 7,000 year old ‘blockchain’ here, as old as human civilization, and you want to hard fork it. Lol. May I humbly suggest some books to you: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, or better yet, the Bible itself, are good starting points.

I don’t know fuck all, neither does any other ideological religious dogma. The real truth is NOBODY knows. I’m just trying to get to the most rational and conceivable answer of the inconceivable.

The bible 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭

How am I trying to fork the bible? It’s a protocol I don’t even use.

Jesus is going to rock your world

I’m good brotha😎🤙🏽

5 months later of research into theology, psychology, postmodernism and other various subjects, l've now came to my own conclusion that not only is Jesus the son of god, but god manifested inside the human spirit.

Like Jordan Peterson points out, the story has to be primary to human beings, it's engraved within us, the problem with postmodernism is that a narrative of a story is unable and insufficient to explain the complexity of human experience.

For postmodernism to succeed it needs to derive its own narrative and story in the process, which is touché to say the least. The problem is that they unconsciously substitute what can be seen as the highest good (god) and replace it with their own personal narrative.

We then come to morality, people like Sam Harris acknowledge the presence of good and evil, and heavily emphasise subjective experience for the most part central, so how do you then arrange and solve the problem of morality? Because in doing so you need to pursue a story and narrative of objective truths on good and evil.

Look at the grandfather of postmodernism, Nietzsche : "God is dead, we have killed him."

Now let’s look at Jung, a follower of Christianity:

When Nietzsche said, “God is dead,” he uttered a truth which is valid for the greater part of Europe. People were influenced by it not because he said so, but because it stated a widespread psychological fact. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 145.

As humans we cannot bare the responsibility of the worlds sin, and the only way to pursue a path of righteousness and redemption, is through the recognition and acknowledgement of Christ as the redeemer of sin.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of Goddess.

"If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete."

Postmodernism utterly fails in its attempt to create a comprehensive world view. It's a tool better used for disassembly than anything else.

Traditionalism and modernism also fall short in the end though. I think they are all required to reach a broader understanding of our physical predicament.

Christ is king.