Who gives a rip what you “think”.
And why don’t you try using spell check, it might give you a smidgen
more credibility…. At least you’ll won’t come across as such a moron.

PS. DEEPAK ISNT AN ATHEIST YOU DONT NO ANYTHING ABOUT HIM. he belives in a God. The real god. A god who is infinte total. in other words ALL. not some MAN in the sky. God is like us having a soul. a phyiscal body. and a mind. Gods phyiscal body is every thing you can see and touch. mountains, water, palnt life, stars, planets, ALL.

same as the billions of people before you. people who belive in santan and the bible

just because sombody else told you that it exist and its real. Stop listening to what

everybody else tells you and found out for yourself. Just because Santan isnt real doesnt

mean GOD ISNT REAL. you have to drop the idea that the bible trys to imply that God is a

human like divine being wo Thinks, speaks, walks, and asks question. God in the bible

is powerful and knowlegable. But he certainly is not All powerful and he certainly is not

ALL knowing. An all knowing deity would NEVER have to ask questions he already

would know. am i lying? An All powerful being would not be confined by time. I took the

God in the bible 6 days to create the earth. And afterward he became tired and even

needed to rest. In fact alot of things in the genesis story makes no sense. It quarrels

with facts (things that Cannot be proven wrong) that we are aware of today. Like the fact

that the sun moon nor the star are in the sky of the earth. i geuss you guys belive the

devil is responsible for outerspace huh?. the bible mentions god creating the earth. but

doesnt mention outerspace (somthing infinatly large) or any of the other 8 planets in our

solar system. In fact the bible mentions nothing the could be seen by the human eye in

those time. THINK think people. the author didnt KnoW better. he is Ignorant just like you

If your having issues with what im saying challenge me at Jeray_rivera@yahoo.com.

Leave me a mail and ill send you whatever you need to prove you wrong GARUNTEED

To me, Jesus is the brilliant and amazing example of a
human being who has found this perfect love inside himself, who has faced and healed all
of himself, and who continues to inspire us all to keep remembering who we are.

To that I respond with writings from CS Lewis:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

It is interesting to read and keeps ones attention.

It reminds me of the wonderful conversations we had on the IntentBlog during
three years.

So much better than the boring Intent.com where all the daily intentions resemble
one another and do not have much challenge in them to read, let alone to respond to.

good morning

the same tough questions you ponder have been in my focus for many years,
if not from the day I was born. I don’t have philosophical answers, but answers from my
inner findings and experience. I understand and respect your answers, Case, and also
understand that they are solid, that they satisfy you and have brought you peace.
I am glad for you, and hope the place you have found is as true and real as you want it to be.

I have different answers and I don’t know if you are interested in them, but here
they are, in case you would like to know. They are not final answers, as both questions and
answers mature with any questioner, but they are solid enough to support me to even
broader ones.

Did Jesus literally walk on this earth? I don’t find this to be an important question at
all, so I have never given it much attention. But I think it is very likely that he did exist
as a physical person, so let’s speak of him as such.

Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. My question to you: did he claim to be the
ONLY son of God? Did he not also say “you are gods?”I have no trouble recognizing
what he says as truth, as I know myself to be a daughter of the same God.

He spoke of love and despised evil and sin… hmmm…. You see Case, this sounds
like what most of us do, not like perfect Love. Most people speak of love but
spend their time despising So maybe that’s all we can hear of what Jesus tried to say.
To me, Jesus is someone in a higher realm of consciousness, where love means
something other than our mundane concepts of love.

Is God a “force” akin to electricity? No, I have found the deepest God outside the entire
universe of matter, energy, forces, etc. God is not a person and not a force. God is
beyond any thought or concept which we could sit here with our cups of tea and speak of.
It flows into this world of time and matter and expresses itself as time, matter and everything
and everyone we see. God is not perceivable with the senses, containable in concepts,
but is intimately knowable by us all, as it is our very source.

Then what is Love, and its power? Love, like Truth, Beauty, Intelligence, Aliveness,
Compassion, Joy, Knowingness, Creativity … is a quality flowing out from that supreme
Source, and as everything flowing from God is …God, these are a form of God very close
to the purest Source . The Love I speak of, and which I think is what Jesus called Love,
is not the same as our mundane concept of love, which is in contrast to hate. Our
mundane concept says “love those who seem right to you and hate those who seem
wrong”. But Jesus talked of pure Love and probably tried to explain by saying things
like “turn the other cheek” and “love thy neighbour as thyself”.He didn’t say “love thy
neighbour only if he isn’t evil in your eyes”, like our mundane concept of love says.

How does God love? Through and as you and me, everyone and everything. Sometimes
in forms very far from the source, distorted forms that we call evil- they only contain a
vague memory of who we are, if any. Sometimes in the much more recognizable form of
the emotion we call love, but also as equality, respect, appreciation, understanding,
kindness, compassion, sharing… and so on.
If our love, our consciousness, our memory of our sorce, is allowed to grow and mature,
it will eventually transform our perception and bring us to the very Source, from where
we will see ourselves and the object of our Love as one.

The power that controls the forces of nature, heals the sick, raises the dead and ressurects
is the power of this pure Love, not of the mundane love which is in contrast to hate. It is the
power of going to the Source of everything, to God, and changing it simply and naturally,
out of pure Love. It is a power with no opponent. Opposing forces of all kinds exist indeed
in the world of time and matter, and they are all natural having their place in the continuous
cycle of creation and destruction, but from the highest point of view accessible to human
beings, they are just a creation of our true source and identity.

Thank you for this dialogue, have a great day !
aurora

Jesus literally walked on this earth. He actually claimed to be the Son of God. He is
either who he said he was or a deceiver and a liar. He spoke of Love. This is true. But,
Jesus despised evil and sin. I’m curious, if God is not a personal being and he
is a “Force” as you say akin to electricity, what does it mean when you say
this force is Love? Our concept of love is real is it not? We actually feel the
emotion between beings. How does force love?

I believe Jesus thought that Satan was real. Jesus controlled the forces of nature,
healed the sick, raised the dead and resurrected. If this is true that He is a
force to be contended with.

What does your philosophy say about our origins? purpose? destiny? morality? Does it have
solid answers to these questions? Tough questions. You don’t really have to answer them.
I’ll understand if you want to embrace your uncertainty a little longer.

case