OK, Let's Talk About God
by James Lehman
Hopefully, the ideas presented here are all encompassing enough as to not
offend anyone's system of belief, but rather to supplement one's
understanding of The Ultimate One.
First let's take a scientific approach to the existence of what we call reality.
We know that there are apparently three phases of existence in the universe:
matter, the forces that act upon matter and the time that it takes for forces to
act upon matter. We also know, thanks to Einstein, that all matter is, in fact,
energy. The laws of thermodynamics state that energy is neither created nor
destroyed. There is never more of it or less of it. It merely changes state. From
these concepts, we can surmise that there is some pure and ultimate form of
energy that makes up all forms of matter, all forms of energy and causes the
expression of what we perceive as time. In quantum physics this is referred to
as "the Unified Field Theory." This energy is the substance of all of reality.
Everything is made of it. Nothing exists apart from it. It is unique and alone.
That is what God is.
This pure and ultimate energy is what professors of all religions of the
Earth have been trying to describe as The Ultimate Creator. What makes this
perspective interesting is that it, in no way, contradicts any of these religions,
because, not only is God everything that exists, but God is also everything that
never will exist. This applies to nonphysical things as well. A thought is just as
substantial as a rock, in this context. God is the complement, inverse,
converse, contrapositive, negative and contradiction of everything as well.
There is nothing that anyone can describe that is not God and even nothing is
God.
Consider the Judeo-Christian concept that "God created man in His own
image." First of all, the words "man" and "His" should be considered
synonymous with humanity and have no real gender identity attached to them.
Every molecule of your body, every thought in your mind, every flow of life's
energy in your spirit is God. So, (and here's the part that might upset some
people) when Jesus said he is 100% man and 100% God, that's what he was
talking about; and so is every other human that ever lived or will ever live. So
there you have it.
What seems to be the biggest trouble maker in the disagreements between
one religious perspective and another is the personification of God. Many
people imagine God very much as a man --a superman, if you will, who sits
somewhere else and watches over all of us; a being with total knowledge, one
who transcends time, but still has human-like emotions, favors and disfavors
the behavior of all of us and even has a temper. Different cultures tend to
depict this image of God as being the epitome of, and judge of all of the best
morays of their society. Their cultural / racial / sexual majority norms color their
concept of God's perceived personality --man creating God in his own image.
They think of God The Creator in a similar sense as someone who works with
clay, molds it into a likable form and then steps back away from it and
scrutinizes what it becomes. God is the sculptor, yes, but God is also the clay.
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