Lacewing wrote:If God is ALL... how can all NOT BE God?
If, and only if, God is ALL, then ALL must be God, obviously. But, who says God is ALL?
Lacewing wrote:And ALL means everything... good, bad, evil, horror, people, plants, rocks, stars, water, air... ALL of it.
Of course ALL means everything, but to Me, God, in the physical sense, is All physical things, however, God, in the spiritual, or unable to be seen with the physical eyes, sense, is All spiritual things, excluding those that are false, wrong, and/or incorrect. Therefore, to Me, God is NOT ALL.
You may view God as being ALL, including evil for example, but I do not.
AFTER I came to the true, right, and correct answers to ALL the meaningful, or metaphysical, questions in Life, then I discovered the reason WHY wrong, bad, evil, horror, et cetera WAS included in the God ALL
BEFOREHAND. But until those questions are answered correctly people
try to justify their wrong behaviors as being just a part of God (or just a part of God's plan), which is correct in the truest of senses. But to continue to try to justify one's own wrong behavior as just making mistakes, or with statements like, "I/we are just human", is missing the mark completely. Not being truly open and honest about one's own wrong doing and their doing of wrong is what has prevented human beings from discovering who they truly are before.
Lacewing wrote:If God is NOT ALL, what ELSE is there other than God...
Bad, evil, horror, wrong, falsehoods, incorrect, et cetera.
Lacewing wrote: what is powerful and unique enough to escape God's influence...
Deception, denial, lying, beliefs, assumptions, et cetera. God may influence, but God does NOT force.
Human beings evolved with the freedom to choose to do whatever they want/ed to choose. Human beings can not only lie and deceive others, or each other, they can also just as easily even lie to and thus deceive their own selves, which is what prevents God's influence from being fully heard, fully seen, and fully understood. Beliefs and assumptions are the two main things that can completely block God's influence all together in the first place.
Human beings have the freedom to believe and assume absolutely anything that they want to believe and assume, but, the very opposite of being Open, or God like, is being closed, this is caused by having and maintaining beliefs and/or assumptions.
Lacewing wrote: and what is the reasoning for believing in such separateness?
Who is
believing in such separateness?
I certainly do not believe, nor disbelieve, (in) anything, except in the power of the One true Self, to do and achieve whatever It truly wants to.
For human beings to be able to fully see and understand the interconnectedness and unity of the one and only One, they have to break every single thing down into separate things. Human beings compartmentalize ALL into separate things, naturally. That is how they best learn, understand, and reason, ALL things.
Obviously the ALL as One is Everything, but the word
Everything can also be separated into every thing. Being able to separate ALL the parts of One and see every (single) thing separately for what each part really is, also allows the ability to re-unify every separate thing back together again as One, and then see Everything, and all of Its parts, connected together as the one and only One for what It really is, also.
It is obvious you can see Everything connected as One, which is great as a lot of people can not, but surely you can also see how this One is made of many separate individual or single parts? Separating things into individual single things is not to say they are separate from each other in the truest of senses. This is just done in order to see the big and full picture of the One individual single thing known as Life, or Existence, or ALL, or God, or Universe, or Everything, or whatever else we, human beings, want to call the One and only true thing, which we are ALL a part of, and want to be truly Conscious, or Aware, of. That is thee True Self.
Some, like yourself, see ALL as God, and I am certainly not saying your view is wrong, but if some people will then use this view as an excuse, or attempt to use it as a justification, for continuing on with their obvious wrong ways, then I will continue to say those obvious wrong behaviors and ways human beings are continuing to do is NOT a part of God. Surely ANY THING would NOT want parts of Its own True Self to be abusing, harming, and damaging any (other) parts of Its Self. This would have absolutely no purpose to it. In fact depending on degree of damage being done could end up leading to destruction of Its own Self.
AFTER I discovered and learned the reason why I was doing wrong I could see why wrong, et cetera, WAS a necessary "evil" PREVIOUSLY, but far more importantly I discovered and learned a much better way in where ALL human beings do not abuse each other. Behaving in this God-like way means ALL human beings can start living together in peace and harmony as One. Behaving in ways that does not abuse, harm, nor damage, any of the parts of the One, unifies that One more, which in turn makes that connectedness far stronger, and then that makes it far better for every thing, and Everything as One. Seeing every thing as One may be the best way and a good thing to do, but surely just to look at the separatedness of every thing, so that no thing whatsoever gets abused, damaged, nor harmed, is not necessarily a bad thing to do. The reasoning for just looking at the separatedness is so that connectedness remains intact and bonded together as One, and working together as One.
I know you do not agree that there is a "better way", but remember I have continually stated that only a way that is agreed with and accepted by the One ALL, or Everything, IS the Only True way.