God

Point blank question: Do you believe in "God" (with a big "g" ) in any way shape or form?

I do, but my concepts of "God" do not seem to coincide with any other posters here except maybe a few who seem to deny the existence of "God".

I feel I am all alone in my beliefs and yet no one can come close to explaining to me why I am wrong.

But lets just keep it simple to start with, eh?

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Point blank question: Do you believe in "God" (with a big "g" ) in any way shape or form?

I do, but my concepts of "God" do not seem to coincide with any other posters here except maybe a few who seem to deny the existence of "God".

I feel I am all alone in my beliefs and yet no one can come close to explaining to me why I am wrong.

But lets just keep it simple to start with, eh?

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Point blank question: Do you believe in "God" (with a big "g" ) in any way shape or form?

I do, but my concepts of "God" do not seem to coincide with any other posters here except maybe a few who seem to deny the existence of "God".

I feel I am all alone in my beliefs and yet no one can come close to explaining to me why I am wrong.

But lets just keep it simple to start with, eh?

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Point blank question: Do you believe in "God" (with a big "g" ) in any way shape or form?

I do, but my concepts of "God" do not seem to coincide with any other posters here except maybe a few who seem to deny the existence of "God".

I feel I am all alone in my beliefs and yet no one can come close to explaining to me why I am wrong.

But lets just keep it simple to start with, eh?

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Point blank question: Do you believe in "God" (with a big "g" ) in any way shape or form?

I do, but my concepts of "God" do not seem to coincide with any other posters here except maybe a few who seem to deny the existence of "God".

I feel I am all alone in my beliefs and yet no one can come close to explaining to me why I am wrong.

But lets just keep it simple to start with, eh?

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Point blank question: Do you believe in "God" (with a big "g" ) in any way shape or form?

I do, but my concepts of "God" do not seem to coincide with any other posters here except maybe a few who seem to deny the existence of "God".

I feel I am all alone in my beliefs and yet no one can come close to explaining to me why I am wrong.

But lets just keep it simple to start with, eh?

-Removed-

Originally posted by jaywill
What is your belief aout God ? Do you know God ?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Simple answer: no, none; no way, shape or form, whether big "G" or little "g", whether "one" or "many".

Originally posted by JS357
I don't plan to tell you why you are "wrong." I tend to say I lack belief in God but that only works when discussing some agreed-upon concept of God. Usually that depends on some believer saying something about the god they believe in and I look inside myself and find myself lacking belief in that as a real entity. So all I could say to you is I lack belief i ...[text shortened]... other word? This is all we really have to go on, so far, if we start fresh.

Originally posted by Suzianne
We've all been over this ground countless times.

I do not see how another rehash will settle anything.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Dont know. It's just a feeling. Whenever I try to conceptualize it for others it comes out sounding not the way I intended.

there are many concepts of god. the popular concept among christians and other religionists is that of a stagnant god. one who is defined in an old dusty tome and does not change. they look forward with hope and anticipation to a spiritual lobotomy where they will reside forever sucking on the nipple of their god. their concept of god is based on the god of the gaps; they abide in an ever shrinking universe.

having described the stagnant god of what we don't know, there is another god concept; the god of what we can know. this is the state of perfection which humanity strives for, a state of ever increasing knowledge, in unraveling the language of god and becoming whole. this is the true spiritual journey, one which our religionist friends have not learned. our universe does not shrink with increasing knowledge, it expands.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
The word is tainted, yes. But it is a very useful word when looked at in the right spirit.
No, not like in "Steve", lol

In brief, negative theology is an attempt to achieve unity with the Divine Good through discernment, gaining knowledge of what God is not (apophasis), rather than by describing what God is. The apophatic tradition is often, though not always, allied with the approach of mysticism, which focuses on a spontaneous or cultivated individual experience of the divine reality beyond the realm of ordinary perception, an experience often unmediated by the structures of traditional organized religion or the conditioned role-playing and learned defensive behavior of the outer man.