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God is the divine all knowing one true justice nature of pure righteous judgment and truest love of all that is innocent. The benevolent one whom is understanding and wisdom itself. The master of all that is. This gives us something more to strive for. God gives us purpose and meaning in the great forever. God is the saviour of mankind from their blindness and themselves. The most merciful one whom takes pity on the human existence.
Is there a God? No. But it would make life eternal joy if there was The One. Or perhaps the great and many Divine Lords like polyTheism. The concept of God makes us wonder is Life everlasting purposeful and majestic. While God is noneso realistic it gives us the concept of holiness. A worthy aspiration that has survived humanity and inspired humanity well beyond what it believed it could be. Without God we just would never aspire to excellence and being more than who we are. The idea that Eternal Truth is all powerful and a defender of the upright and the innocent and that their is a God of it or Gods of it. God to me is a goal an aspiration to transcend reality.
The bible on the other hand is far fetched and reads no better than a comic book of cruelty and abhorrent supernatural inanity that speaks of a god that demands blind submission.

And the one who kill those who try to be that way?

you can make anything a good or really bad thing. Religion has its evils.

kill those trying to be like god? Why would someone do that? GOD is humble, out there for the good of people.

osgart wrote:God is the divine all knowing one true justice nature of pure righteous judgment and truest love of all that is innocent. The benevolent one whom is understanding and wisdom itself. The master of all that is. This gives us something more to strive for. God gives us purpose and meaning in the great forever. God is the saviour of mankind from their blindness and themselves. The most merciful one whom takes pity on the human existence.
Is there a God? No. But it would make life eternal joy if there was The One. Or perhaps the great and many Divine Lords like polyTheism. The concept of God makes us wonder is Life everlasting purposeful and majestic. While God is noneso realistic it gives us the concept of holiness. A worthy aspiration that has survived humanity and inspired humanity well beyond what it believed it could be. Without God we just would never aspire to excellence and being more than who we are. The idea that Eternal Truth is all powerful and a defender of the upright and the innocent and that their is a God of it or Gods of it. God to me is a goal an aspiration to transcend reality.
The bible on the other hand is far fetched and reads no better than a comic book of cruelty and abhorrent supernatural inanity that speaks of a god that demands blind submission.

Reads like escapism. You seem to need God to justify reality. Is that the case? What would change if you took God out of the picture?

osgart wrote:kill those trying to be like god? Why would someone do that? GOD is humble, out there for the good of people.

Really? Have you ever read the OT?

osgart wrote:God is the divine all knowing one true justice nature of pure righteous judgment and truest love of all that is innocent. The benevolent one whom is understanding and wisdom itself. The master of all that is. This gives us something more to strive for. God gives us purpose and meaning in the great forever. God is the saviour of mankind from their blindness and themselves. The most merciful one whom takes pity on the human existence.
Is there a God? No. But it would make life eternal joy if there was The One. Or perhaps the great and many Divine Lords like polyTheism. The concept of God makes us wonder is Life everlasting purposeful and majestic. While God is noneso realistic it gives us the concept of holiness. A worthy aspiration that has survived humanity and inspired humanity well beyond what it believed it could be. Without God we just would never aspire to excellence and being more than who we are. The idea that Eternal Truth is all powerful and a defender of the upright and the innocent and that their is a God of it or Gods of it. God to me is a goal an aspiration to transcend reality.
The bible on the other hand is far fetched and reads no better than a comic book of cruelty and abhorrent supernatural inanity that speaks of a god that demands blind submission.

I suppose God, or the concept of, can inspire us to do or try to be whatever. Many concepts can, if you ignore the conceptual flaws.

I could look through a telescope and feel the same way. Best of all it's real and not a concept.

osgart wrote:The master of all that is.

"All that is" would include ALL of it (right?) -- even the "bad", "twisted", "evil", and "horrible". Why would the concept of God only represent "the good"... other than for purposes of those who want to control the story?

osgart wrote:God is the saviour of mankind from their blindness and themselves.

How is anything separate from the concept of God? How is anything NOT OF GOD?

osgart wrote:it would make life eternal joy if there was The One.

Why do we seek to be different than the glory of what we are? Why do we not see this as oneness playing and exploring? Is this manifestation not phenomenal and wondrous as it is?

osgart wrote:Without God we just would never aspire to excellence and being more than who we are.

I don't think this is true. There are countless people aspiring to excellence (personal and otherwise) without a concept of god. RATHER... the god concept seems to often inspire people to LOOK AWAY from WHAT IS... and NOT TREASURE ALL as being of god... which shows how the god concept is man-made to support and defend man's interests and judgments and limitations in awareness and love.

osgart wrote:God is the divine all knowing one true justice nature of pure righteous judgment and truest love of all that is innocent. The benevolent one whom is understanding and wisdom itself. ...
The bible on the other hand is far fetched and reads no better than a comic book of cruelty and abhorrent supernatural inanity that speaks of a god that demands blind submission.

Nah.
God is a concept of a being, the rejection of which inspires me to try to be more than any religious person mired in faith and confusion.

well its just sad to be here to only live and die. There are plenty of fascinating things about existence but nothing that endures. Like the song goes aint it sad that life is more than who we are. I just choose to believe in eternal life and a higher power thats all. I actually loathe organized religions of today. I dont wish for a god, i just like the concept of an infinite higher power that is endless. We all have free will to become whatsoever we wish. The idea of something beyond us all inspires me. And the virtue of truth to me is the eternal. In my subjective experience it is reality. And i am fine with that.

osgart wrote:well its just sad to be here to only live and die..

Not it is not. There is nothing "Only" about living.

osgart wrote:well its just sad to be here to only live and die. There are plenty of fascinating things about existence but nothing that endures. Like the song goes aint it sad that life is more than who we are. I just choose to believe in eternal life and a higher power thats all. I actually loathe organized religions of today. I dont wish for a god, i just like the concept of an infinite higher power that is endless. We all have free will to become whatsoever we wish. The idea of something beyond us all inspires me. And the virtue of truth to me is the eternal. In my subjective experience it is reality. And i am fine with that.

The only sad thing about existence is that idiots think it's so bloody great, that they make other people go through it, generation after generation. Proving the adage 'misery loves company'.

God is a concept that urges us to be less than we could be.

Hobbes' Choice wrote:God is a concept that urges us to be less than we could be.

Or at least allows us to abdicate responsibility for what we do; 'it was God's will'; 'we were following orders' (the Nazi defense).