For a long time, there has been a debate asking, “Who is God?” and there have been many different answers.
For some people, God exists. For others, God does not! Those who don’t agree with God’s existence always ask Is there a God? Who is he? Why does he allow suffering? Am I going to hell? Why doesn’t he show himself?
God is not only behind all creation
God is not only behind all creation in the universe; it is all the creations in the universe and the empty spaces between. God is the atoms spinning around so fast as to seem solid matter on this earthly plane and who knows what all in other planes- other dimensions. Nature wasn’t created by human beings or any living things on the planet, and if we didn’t do it, then something else must have done it.
Was it your mom? Was it your Dad?
They are very capable people, and as parents, they gave you all there is to give, but are they able to even create something as basic as dirt? Even the president of the United States, with all the power he has, can not create a leaf from scratch.
Let alone something as advanced as a worm.
Therefore, there must be a supernatural power that created nature, humans, and all living and unliving things on Earth. You can ask church or temple people, and you will mostly hear what they heard about God, and sometimes their experiences regarding how faith in God has affected their lives.
But we are not much closer to understanding who God is. But we can hear a lot about people’s personal experiences.
FAITH:
There is a difference between the religious Gods and the Real God.
What if I suggest to you that maybe the Bible, as an example of holy scripture, might have been misinterpreted, misleading, mischaracterized, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident?
And what if the people who loved you most were right there as part of the scriptural conspiracy? They would never mislead you on purpose, right?
But what if the original church leaders wanted to use the Bible to control people with fear? Religion is certainly most effective in that.
I was taught in history class that first, the governments would send in the religious emissaries, and for those stubborn enough to resist, they would send in the army to keep “peace.
“Armies would use the power of religious belief for their benefit. I have a German soldier’s belt buckle from WWI or WWII with the words stamped, “Gott mit uns.
God is with us
Every army used God to push their causes, and God was on every army’s side.
Some religions describe God as a personal being with emotions, but many of those personal characteristics are of the lower human emotions of jealousy, vanity, and vengeance.
The Bible promotes love and slavery when it tells slaves they should not think ill of their masters, even when the masters mistreat them.
That does not sound like a loving God to me, but more likely a slave owner, and we can not gloss over the glaring contradictions, for there are many, no matter what the believers say.
If God is Love, why so much judgment?
And will we go to hell for questioning these inconsistencies? I would think only a jealous, vain, low-level vibrational being could throw a sincere searcher of truth into the pits of hell for asking such questions.
And the God I praise is not like that. The true God is of love and compassion. So I say, please ask all your questions without fear. Fear is a tool of the devil, if there were such a thing, and that devil can be a misguided spirit pointing us away from the truth of universal love from a pulpit.
Sometimes, we just have to go with what sounds true inside. Trust that inner voice more and the gossip less when it comes to finding your own truth. With these inconsistencies, it is not surprising that many are confused and frustrated and view God as an impersonal force or energy that does not care. Or they simply give up and do not believe in a God. It does not matter whether one believes in a god or not.
We are all going to the same place anyway. Jesus never spoke of hell out of His mouth. He mentioned a place where the Romans burned dead people in the old times. He also never said He came to save anyone from hell. But many churches do, and they try and convince us we were born in sin and will go there if we do not believe in what they are selling.
But the time to question is now.
How could a newborn baby, the example of innocence, be born a sinful soul? It sounds like someone doesn’t want us to know how great we are. That we are born inheritors of gods on earth, walking in the flesh, having an earthly experience. No one sees the wind or air, but nobody can question the existence of wind or air.
All of us can only feel and experience it in many ways. We can feel and experience God in several ways, whether we are believers in God or not. And that is the magic of life. Every time we open our eyes in the morning, we can choose to either be thankful for another day of life or to complain about it, and that choice can make all the difference in our lives and of all those we touch.
Let us consider the old days when humans were trying to make sense of this existence and may have gotten some guidance from outside entities. Aliens from other universes or other dimensions. God’s form varies according to culture, religion, and the forms we are living in here on earth. For Black people, God could be Black; for White people, it could be white. It is the same for Hindus. It could have eight hands.
For animals, God may be a giant buffalo with four horns. And for Asian people, God has brown eyes and black hair. He could choose to be any or all of these things.I mean, we are talking about an entirely different way of thinking.
Too often, humans tend to put exaggerated human characteristics on God, but that is like putting human characteristics on a jellyfish. We have to think much differently. So we might imagine God to be just a larger version of ourselves.
That doesn’t take a lot of imagination. And naturally with human characteristics.
- Human Emotions
- Human Pettiness
Santa Claus with a quick temper. That is what we create. And that is man-made.
The scriptures were inspired by God. Give me a Break! My sister has been inspired every week to bet on the lottery. Ask me how many times she has won. Maybe you can guess. I have felt inspired to take a nap after each evening. So let me share with you my theory.
And it is based on reading and stories and my interpretations of the Bible, as it an often edited with parts deleted, held back, or changed to fit a narrative from the powers that be.
What if I told you you were created out of love by god, but this true God is not a person, though He can appear as a person and does in many forms. We are here to help Him experience who he is.
God knows what He is, but could not experience what He is until He created the dual existence. The Idea of opposites, and we have the choice to be whatever we want to become.
We are creating ourselves every moment. Every second. He could not know cold without knowing the host. Nor good without bad.
So, he created all of it and left it up to us to choose what kind of world we want to create.
So do not blame God when people in far-off lands are dying of hunger or thirst, when we could decide to feed the world overnight if we wanted. But our system would not allow that. The systems that we set up.
God is not jealous, nor petty, nor does not hold a grudge. He is in love.
That universal love that does not require something in return. He loves his creations. Think of God as more of an energy source of love. And we can experience that feeling of love also if we want to. If we didn’t have all kinds of blocks to it, mainly revolving around fear. So instead of blaming God, let us start accepting some responsibility, for that is the start of a change.
So first, we have to stop comparing Him to us humans in how He/She/ It thinks.
He created us to be creating machines. We create with our thoughts first.
And we are powerful if we know how to think. God is not limited by time or space as we are, nor is he constrained by anything else.
He/She/It is in everything.
There are some aspects of God that are beyond our comprehension. Our Idea of God is just an exaggerated version of ourselves, as we are still not able to define ourselves, but the definition about our self is not always correct.
No one can define Who is God.
We can just experience and be in awe over it. We can’t understand it fully.
Whatever knowledge we have about God is mostly culturally based, and depending on what kind of culture you have, that is the type of God you have.
Have you heard the stories about people dying, then coming back only to tell of the leaders we know about Christianity, it is Jesus. And for others and atheists, it is something else.
We can only experience the life God gave us, and that could be all there is that we were given the chance to experience this gift of life God gave all of us.
What if we go beyond?
God has been taught to most of us in the churches and temples, and mosques, and from well-meaning people who have also learned it from religious organisations.
But what if we dig deeper?
What if we read other books, listen to other voices? What if we use science to explain God? Science has been used to try to explain our existence forever.
The atom- the building block of everything we see shows that everything we see is an illusion. An illusion of atoms and molecules spinning around so fast that it looks real to our senses here on Earth. But looking at science gives us more questions. Science does not tell us who God is, but shows us how it was done.
It also doesn’t explain why. So let’s look at other books. And let us use our compass to guide us. That inner sense of what the truth is.
Let’s look at what some of the best-known ancient and modern philosophers have said about God.
Some quotes:
- Michael Beckwith- Modern spirituality philosopher and motivational teacher, said- God is not Superman in the sky. It is beauty, intelligence, and life. God is our life, and we are expressions of that life.
- Neale Donald Walsh said, “God is in everything seen and unseen, there is nothing that exists that is not a part of God.
- Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one. A. W. Tozer.
- We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and retlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature- trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence, see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch the soul. “Mother Teresa.
- God has no religion. “Mahatma Gandhi.
- Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near, and He is real. He is not only aware of us, but cares for us. God is our father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him. “Gordon B. Hinckley.
- Sadhguru says it is impossible to truly describe God.
- How can we possibly describe the great creator? We can only experience it and dissolve into it. What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” Hasn urs von Balthasar.
- God’s voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. Nicholas Sparks.
- Swami Mukundananda suggests that if we want to know who God is, we ask Him directly. Why ask people who may or may not know? Ask directly to the source, and be prepared and open to receiving the reply in one or more unexpected places, such as from a friend or the radio or a magazine page, an ad, or from that soft voice deep inside.