David Dalton
2022-06-27 06:56:42 UTC
One of my essential messages is:
"If you communicate with a someone you must know the definition
of that someone. A corollary is that, for non-atheists: if you
follow a deity name do not use the name blindly but know what
it means."
If you do not have a definition of God then there is no
match to the name God for you, and/or you may be opening
yourself to having an evil one grabbing the name and
pretending to be God.
So what is your definition of God?
Some possible definitions are:
1. The Creator, as in Genesis and in the Nicene Creed.
2. The all-governing someone, as in the Nicene Creed. Note
that the original Greek word in the Nicene Creed that is
generally translated as almighty actually means all-governing.
3. A historical definition, such as the God of Abraham, the
God of Moses, or the God of Jesus.
4. The personification of love.
5. The one who was incarnated as Jesus.
6. An organizational definition, e.g. the God of the Pope.
7. An experiential definition, i.e. the source of a mystic
experience one has had, such as my glowing blue rose vision,
which I think was the same as Moses's "burning that did
not consume."
And perhaps there are others.
I define my God as the ruler of the region all/everything,
which matches definition (2) above. God is the most
powerful someone, but is not the most loving someone.
Indeed another of my essential messages is:
"There is no someone who is BOTH all-powerful AND perfect
(or perfectly loving)."
I have divined that God did create that which most modern
cosmologists believe began with the Big Bang, which I
believe is a subset of all/everything. However such
divination has been unreliable for me, so I don't include
it (1) in my definition of God. Some may say that all
seven of the above definitions apply, but to avoid the
possibility of there being no match I just go with (2).
"If you communicate with a someone you must know the definition
of that someone. A corollary is that, for non-atheists: if you
follow a deity name do not use the name blindly but know what
it means."
If you do not have a definition of God then there is no
match to the name God for you, and/or you may be opening
yourself to having an evil one grabbing the name and
pretending to be God.
So what is your definition of God?
Some possible definitions are:
1. The Creator, as in Genesis and in the Nicene Creed.
2. The all-governing someone, as in the Nicene Creed. Note
that the original Greek word in the Nicene Creed that is
generally translated as almighty actually means all-governing.
3. A historical definition, such as the God of Abraham, the
God of Moses, or the God of Jesus.
4. The personification of love.
5. The one who was incarnated as Jesus.
6. An organizational definition, e.g. the God of the Pope.
7. An experiential definition, i.e. the source of a mystic
experience one has had, such as my glowing blue rose vision,
which I think was the same as Moses's "burning that did
not consume."
And perhaps there are others.
I define my God as the ruler of the region all/everything,
which matches definition (2) above. God is the most
powerful someone, but is not the most loving someone.
Indeed another of my essential messages is:
"There is no someone who is BOTH all-powerful AND perfect
(or perfectly loving)."
I have divined that God did create that which most modern
cosmologists believe began with the Big Bang, which I
believe is a subset of all/everything. However such
divination has been unreliable for me, so I don't include
it (1) in my definition of God. Some may say that all
seven of the above definitions apply, but to avoid the
possibility of there being no match I just go with (2).
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David Dalton ***@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light" (Sarah McLachlan)
David Dalton ***@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light" (Sarah McLachlan)