Greatest I am wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2017 3:14 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:38 am
Well, that's good...because it looks like it's mutual. It seems Atheists are not all that keen to identify with a guy who thinks there is a god, and it's him.
Correct, as they are not well versed in the esoteric mysticism of religions. They just think of God as supernatural.
Yes. And so does everybody but you, apparently. When one refers to a concept (presumably to communicate something), it's a good idea to use the same concept as everybody else in the world is using. Otherwise, you're likely to be misunderstood, and it won't be their fault...it'll be the speaker's. After all, people have no obligation to understand you if what you're using is not a language they can even recognize. And when you change their words to mean something "esoteric," then you've simply misled them.
In one mind, there can only be one God. That God defined as whatever one believes to be the ideal philosophy or ideology.
This is what I mean. Nobody else thinks that this is what "God" means. Only you do. So to whom are you able to speak, so long as you abuse the concept?
As above so below tells us that theology and philosophy seek the same ends. That being the best rules and laws to live by.
Nope. That's called "Ethics," and it's only one department of either discipline. Moreover, it's a second-level department, one that can only derive answers from things like Metaphysics (in philosophy), and The Nature of God (in theology), but which cannot produce any rational answers without those first-level concerns being addressed first.
If they recognize that God was always a person, then you are not correct.
They don't. Atheists don't believe in gods, wherever you try to tuck them away. That's the problem. You tried to "call them over" to your side, and then failed to notice that they weren't coming.
That is not correct.
It would have to be. You declared that only people of your kind deserve "freedom of religion." That rules out the Atheists, along with everybody else. They are not your kind. And they won't like you rewriting their script for them, saying that they secretly believe that they ARE gods.
Gnostic Christian is a lonely road.
There's no such thing as a "Gnostic Christian," anymore than there's a legless quadruped: the noun in your phrase is a contradiction of the adjective. I've pointed that out before, but you seem to have missed it. This is what I mean by you needing to use language in ways that normal usage recognizes. Without it, you'll just miscommunicate constantly.
All those you mention have hated us because we fight the human control organizations instead of kowtowing to them.
Actually, if you ask me, your view seems rather unthreatening to Western consumerism. The worship of self is the stock in trade in the modern West, I would say. I doubt anybody's soon going to be knocking down your door to arrest you, on the one hand, or awarding you medals for philosophical daring on the other. Everybody wants to believe that they are the centre of the universe.
The problem, of course, is that the universe simply can't have a plurality of centres. There can only be one. Thus, an awful lot of people will turn out to be wrong about being as important as they think they are.
It is, but it is yourself that become the authority. That is what most people are afraid of and that is why they are sheeple while Gnostic Christians are goats.
Well, you can be a goat if you wish. But if you had really read the Bible, you'd know what happens to the metaphorical "goats."
(Matt. 25:46)