Oh I'm not really God. And I am. But I'm not. And am.

LOL...yup, the same! I totally get you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMM5-zBCEc

Your God Is Not God

A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. The mind can only project an image, but that projection is not real; so your god is not God, it is an image of your own making, an image of your own gratification. Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still -- only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being. ~Krishnamurti

Hope that was brief enough, I trimmed it way down!

More like, 'God' in every form...

You got it! :wink:

How can you recognize it now but not then?

What does it feel like?

Curious. ^_^

Krishnamurti, them's fighting words son!! put your dukes up good sir, we're about to slap battle.

The Necromancer,

You have identified the crux of the problem.....perception. Jesus said in Matthew 13:15......"For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them".

Open hearts and open minds go together......they work in conjunction. In explaining the parable of the sower, Jesus said in vs. 22....."The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful".

i.e. there are those of us who hear the word but become distracted by our peripheral vision and lose focus. With focus we could see God among us.

I'm going to go all rebellious now and disagree with Krishanmurti.

A (wo)man who believes in God and loves God unconditionally and surrenders their ego to God can find God. It starts with "I believe God exists" and ends with "I know God exists" so he is right about believing vs knowing however to say 'only a petty mind believes' is pretty hard, because it all starts off as a belief. I know that my chosen 'image of God' is a popular Hindu deity, but hey, that's how He's always appeared before me and basically (not totally) what He looks like to my 'inner eyes'...but yeah, you have to kill Buddha to become a Buddha...and resurrect Buddha again and again, just so he can be killed over and over because that's where the fun is to be had. I often say that I created the separation between myself and Shiva just so I can enjoy the total unifying bliss of joining with Him again...but I still know He exists as a separate entity because I don't recall creating the universe...

Sure Molearner, we can see God or Creation in everything and everyone. Even most non-religious types would concede that. But that's a far cry from religious beliefs about God as a being, who comes to earth in human form. People agree with 50% of what you're saying here, yet you condemn them for not believing the other 50%.