Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:35 am
Age wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:25 am
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:05 am
Hey, Age. Clarifying question: do you believe that God (a sentient being responsible for the creation of the universe/all that exists) exists?
1. Once again, I neither believe nor disbelieve anything, like this.
2. There is no implication anywhere that a 'sentient being' is responsible for the creation of the Universe, all-there-is, nor all-that-exists.
To me, the word 'God' is sensed in two ways:
1. In the visible sense, which is just all physical matter. And, it is this, Itself, which is responsible for the, ever-continual, creation of the Universe.
2. In the invisible sense, which is just the, Truly OPEN, Mind. And, it is this, Itself, which is responsible for the, continual, creation of all human being made creations.
Now, to me, both these things exist, undoubtedly. So, therefore, God, in this sense, exists.
Well, we might have an agreement on #1 and #2 of the first set.
#1 and #2 of the second set, to me, are interesting. I mean, there is certainly a physical universe and there are relatively open minds and relatively prejudiced ones,
To me there are no 'minds'. There is, however, one and only One Mind, which is always absolutely, or Truly, OPEN. Which, by the way, all human beings have access to, and which is what has allowed human beings, ever since evolving-into-creation, to be able to keep imagining, inventing, designing, building, and creating. After all absolutely every thing was, and will be, be-came because of 'an open mind', that is; the one and ONLY OPEN Mind.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:35 am
I'm not sure how that ties in with the word "God".
Minds, with an 's', does not tie in at all with the word 'God', at all. And, as for so-called 'prejudiced minds', will this obviously speaks for not tying in with the word God.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:35 am
Can you clarify a little more how you relate those things to the word "God"?
The Universe is in 'creation', always. It was never just 'created', at one time nor moment. The Universe is always 'in creation', or in other words 'creating' Itself, or Its own Self, is what the word God refers to 'in the Creation' story. The Universe is Itself God, which did not create Everything, in one moment in 'the past', relative to you and when this is being written, but is Creating the Universe, eternally-always NOW.
The, 'In the beginning' ,words have always been referencing the eternal HERE-NOW, because what happens NOW is 'the beginning', of all that is, about, to-come.
Now, how ALL 'things' are imagined and/or envisioned is through the OPEN Mind, which is able to transcend through ALL things. Just like how God is said to be able to do. Also, through the OPEN Mind, God, all human being made things were able to, and were, Created.