The Nature of
God
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God is energized, thoughtful
creativity. There is no gender attached to this being. God does not need worship, respect, reverence,
or obedience for God to extend loving energy in abundance to all of Creation. (Acts
17:25)
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God is not the ultimate judge of
our successes and failures. We are. God allows human beings to be whoever they want to be
and grants them the privilege to express themselves any way they wish. This truly is free
will. What we create is ours, not God’s, including our theology. We can evolve, plateau or
appear to shrivel while in our solid forms. We do a thorough job of judging ourselves. This is not a negative, but a self-created mirror we use to understand what is working and what
is not working for us.
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All people are ultimately tethered
to God, however, and cannot escape their need to evolve nor can they eternally destroy
themselves. A loving Creator would not permit something as powerful as our eternal life to
remain up to our faulty decision making processes. One does not have to believe in God for this
to be true.
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What people manifest in and with
their lives will ultimately pass away and be of little consequence as the soul evolves at
its own pace. Evolution is the destiny of each soul. The timing of this process is each soul’s
responsibility to determine. God has created a continuum where time exists only for
human beings. It is as though Gods said, “So, you want to be creators like me? Fine. Let’s see what you can do. Here is your framework!” God created the physical universe.
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From the human perspective, God is
a projection of what we want and need God to be. Some examples of our creating God in our
image are as follows: “He is a being who loves some people while hating others. He
slaughtered the first born of the Egyptians because a Pharaoh would not comply with Moses’ request. He parted the sea, saving the Israelites, and purposely closed it in order to
destroy the Egyptian army, a deed God used to show his power and might. He inspired the
Scriptures. God reflects human forms of justice by rewarding the righteous with eternal life while
destroying others who would not conform or who chose to remain unrepentant.”
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The length and depth of God’s
creativity remains unknowable and rests beyond our perceptions. Trying to understand God
is like attempting to comprehend the vastness of the ocean by examining the frailty of its
foam. Our beliefs, our prayers and our obedience to the
requirements of God, serve to meet our needs not God’s. God’s will
is not seduced or compromised by our fears, pleas, or
our aimless searching externally for what we have in abundance within ourselves. All human
thoughts about God’s will are speculative, including these being described here. However,
the assumptions we develop, even those based on the thoughts of ancient writers, are
taken as the basis for our deepest faith. God’s will is being accomplished in each soul simply
because it is God’s will that such will be accomplished.
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God’s energy/spirit surrounds us
each whether we reside in our solid forms or not. God is accessible constantly. People build
the walls that separate themselves from God and from each other. They create the attitudes
that establish boundaries and barriers. In attempts to create, people all too frequently
attach themselves to the material aspects and issues surrounding their reality in the
material world. They predicate their decisions about God’s nature on energetic patterns that
they create.
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For the few people who see through
the veil of illusions of the physical world, harmony with God can be achieved by letting go and
by directing their creative, loving energy toward what comes up for them. Love is the energy
pattern that radiates away from the center of each person. This spiritual pattern
creates a harmony with God, one that human’s can achieve by reaching greater heights in their
consciousness. This process is like swimming with the dolphins. As we swim with them, we
learn more about the behavior of their specie. It is when people
swim
with God that they realize
that God is not a magician who fixes, heals and creates all sorts of good things on
command or by request. These circumstances occur in human life for us to negotiate as we
develop strengths and tools during the living of our days. Just because we may feel abandoned
does not mean that we are.
For God there is no such thing as
a need to punish “sin,” i.e., those deeds/attitudes we do that we feel can separate us from God. There is only human ignorance and responses based on fear and uninformed perceptions. God
is never offended and becomes as a mother who senses that her infant has soiled her
diapers. Since there is never any offense taken, God has no need to punish or even forgive
when we miss the mark (sin). Forgiveness is automatic and would be too primitive a response
for the Creator of the universe. No one can take advantage of God’s generosity and
mercy since we inherit exactly what we sow. God’s instant forgiveness cannot equip
anyone with skills they have not developed. God’s love only provides them with hope that
their worst mistakes and misjudgments were not energetic enough to condemn them eternally.
We reap what we sow. Wise people
learn to make choices that enhance their growth. The ignorant and uninformed continue
their failures until they reach a point where they choose more wisely. They will reach that
point eventually because it is God’s will that they do. We are infinite beings who create. Even
if one person succeeds in destroying significant numbers of human beings with a
virulent virus, absolutely nothing about God has changed toward that individual. Absolutely
nothing is accomplished by destruction. God’s will is not frustrated or denied by insane deeds
committed by those who know nothing about creation or its purpose.
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