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August 2009 
Do you believe in God?
Posted on Aug 14th, 2008
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Rob
Rob
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 28, 2007:
If you mean the Christian version, or any other monotheistic dogmatic god, by all means, NO.
There is no valid reason to. Otherwise, at this point, I believe Namaste: that we all have the nature within to be omniscient and omnipotent. It is our evolutionary movement to get there.
There is no valid reason to. Otherwise, at this point, I believe Namaste: that we all have the nature within to be omniscient and omnipotent. It is our evolutionary movement to get there.
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Wow. I'm glad to know I'm not crazy and that someone else thinks the same way: that we are “god” to our own lives and that someday, if we work at it, we have the power to be what god is typically viewed as. Actually, a better god than what the majority of us has created. A god of love and one that revels in creation.
It is ironic that people who have such a desire to find God would decide that He is a mindless and emotionless One. Without a personal God everything is really just purposeless, and chaotic. How did this great reality come to be?
There are many reasons to believe in God. For one thing, time and space, cause and effect have to have started with an original cause. A cause that is capable of creating an enormously complex creation. Without God there is no real morality, it's all a matter of opinion, there simply is no truth.
Surely an all powerfull God is capable of having a mind. Now, what would be the use of cultivating a relationship with someone who is all powerful? That's easy. Love, grace, guidance, these things are invaluable in our search for true enlightenment.
What is truely dogmatic is to say that this amazingly complex realtiy is mindless and doesn't feel anything, and can't love. It is truely dogmatic to believe there is no God. The universal approach would be to know that God is universal, and that allows God to do anything, and this included having a personal manifestation to relate with us.
You are making a few assumptions here Dan. First, the idea anyone is desiring to find God. Questioning the existence of god can be as simple as that: a question. Second, I find much purpose in living despite belieivng there is no personal god. Again, you assume, and present with no evidence to your argument, that such a god exists.
Also, time is a figment of the mind only. It does not exist as anything other than our thoughts. There is no “next week.” You could not find it anywhere in existence. There is only now. So time is no proof of a god. Nor is cause and effect a proof of a personal god, and particulalry any version of a personal god. There are as many versions of origianal cause as there are denominations of the christian cult. And many claim that their version is the only true one. Again, you present no evidence for your argument.
I have no idea where you came up with the notion that any other form of reality has no mind, no compassion, or feeling. That sounds more like a projection of dogmatic dualistic theology than any investigation of other religious or spiritual experiences this planet offers, many of which emphasize and encourage those very atributes that you say are missing. Buddhism for example. And Buddhism, for one, makes those attributes completely within the realm of human experience instead of bestowments from a higher being to a lower class of beings, for whatever reason.
So I disagree with your assessment on the grounds that I stated that I don't think any monotheistic dogmatic god does exist because there are no valid reasons to. You have not presented any worth considering at this point.