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Originally Posted by Topology
The problem is that you have decided who is and is not God, You give God its identity. You will always experience your pre-conception of god. Most of our reality is subject to how we interpret it.
If you take the time to investigate the reality of God, beyond how you think and conceive of God, you might find that the distance between you and God is purely a function of how you think. Your thought process creates the experience of distance and separation. When you bring yourself into a direct experience of the Essence of God, there's a point where you trip and fall in and get absorbed into his being and then you realize that his being is your own being.
How can anything less than God every truly recognize God? Sit with that question. It takes God to know God. So if you see God truly, then you are God. If you do not see truly, then you don't know God and it would behoove you to abandon all concepts and thoughts of God and simple engage a search and inquiry into the direct experience of God, if you start to look closely at those thoughts of separation, the presumption that you and God are not the same, those thoughts waver and begin to dissolve. You are assuming you are not God based on how you pre-conceive the idea of God.
Shed the pre-conceptions and immerse yourself in the experience and presence of God. Once immersed, then ask yourself is God's presence truly different than your own?
We are each a face of God, but we have lost that understanding in thinking that we are something different, other than, less than God.
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Well I certainly don't think we are explaining the same God, or concept of God. Your explination fits those who think as you do, I do not agree with your self concept of what God is. The God I believe in cannot die; I can and will die, thus- I am not my God.
Other reasons why I am not God;
I lie; God does not lie.
I lust; God does not lust.
I have needs; God has no needs.
There are many things I do not understand; God understands all things.
Now in my view, if I convince myself that I am my God, then it stands to reason that I then should be like him and do the things he can do. I cannot create air, water, earth, wind or fire. I cannot create life. So I am not going to seduce myself into thinking I am things which I am not, or can do things I simply cannot. Now it may " Sound good" to say I am God, but its only a selfish pleasing seduction; a sound that I have convinced myself of, thinking that I have obtained levels that common sense and reality convinces me that I have not.
So to those who have reached such a level in their minds, so be it with them. I rather like being in my own reality, my own place, understanding my limitations. I am not God, nor will ever be.
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