God is a spirit

[Amilius777]

But Baile, that's what I meant.

I mentioned guilt because too many of us hold on to imperfect things we did or do and we don't just let the Light and Love of the Divine shine through.

A funny thing about guilt is we can theoretically let go or on an intellectual level say "yeah let's get rid of it" but at the end of the day we tend to fall back into it because we wanna correct what we've done and perfect ourselves on the Spiritual Journey.

Even the late Marlon Brando used to say guilt is a useless emotion. But if you look at his older years for someone who always followed this rule eventually fell back into feeling guilty for the troubled lives of his children.

I think guilt is useless and illusionary and binding to karma, but I also think it has a purpose to make us wanna be better and evolve. Unfortunately some people allow it to bog us down and can control many people. It's a negative emotion filled with fear and can lead to self-hate. But it's purpose is there for a reason.

[Holly]

Originally Posted by Curious-one

I have heard that human beings want to be like God. We are part spirit and part material. Why do humans want to be like God? Curious-One

Assuming that the physical isn't in fact, spiritual. It's all energy at different vibrations. The only difference between the body of a light being and a human body is that a human body exists on the correct wavelength to refract light, so that we can see it.

Would we still be considered "physical" if we existed on a wavelength that did NOT refract light to make us visible, or a wavelength that made us impossible to detect by means of the five senses?

I don't understand how the physical can be considered less God than the soul.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by Serenity69

God Is The Ocean And We Are A Drop In That Ocean

Yes.
And so...it has been placed in our soul to become what we are...
to go back Home to our Source...as every drop goes back to it's source...eventually.

There is a Homing Device placed in each of us.

[Curious-one]

Being human we sin, God hates sin, how can we be God as humans and sin? Curious=One

[H:O:R:A:C:E]

Originally Posted by Curious-one

Being human we sin, God hates sin, how can we be God as humans and sin? Curious=One

God harbors zero hatred - God is Love.
Sin is imaginary; God is Truth and there is no sin within the sphere of truth.

[Rah nam]

We are spirits and that's it

It there a god in the first place?
Not in my view and understanding.

[sky]

Originally Posted by Curious-one

Being human we sin, God hates sin, how can we be God as humans and sin? Curious=One

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
(1 John 3:9 KJV)

[H:O:R:A:C:E]

Originally Posted by Rah nam

We are spirits and that's it

It there a god in the first place?
Not in my view and understanding.

"it is what it is"
it doesn't matter what labels we affix to things;
the truth of stuff doesn't hinge on our understandings.
i'm willing to work with any number of premises;
in most instances the fact or nonfact of "a God" seems irrelevant.
i tend to believe that there is a "universal intelligence"
in operation, but simultaneously i'm given to understand that
Source is not a being per se.
that "universal intelligence" may be nothing more than the collective
intelligences of all beings within the universe, working in conjunction.
Source energy is unconditional Love, so if we need a particular being
to assume the mantle of God, it seems whatever being best exemplifies
that loving nature fits the bill.

[Rah nam]

Originally Posted by H:O:R:A:C:E

"it is what it is"
it doesn't matter what labels we affix to things;
the truth of stuff doesn't hinge on our understandings.
i'm willing to work with any number of premises;
in most instances the fact or nonfact of "a God" seems irrelevant.
i tend to believe that there is a "universal intelligence"
in operation, but simultaneously i'm given to understand that
Source is not a being per se.
that "universal intelligence" may be nothing more than the collective
intelligences of all beings within the universe, working in conjunction.
Source energy is unconditional Love, so if we need a particular being
to assume the mantle of God, it seems whatever being best exemplifies
that loving nature fits the bill.

i can work with most of what you say, even so, the term "unconditional love" more and more becomes like an over used pair of underpants.
So I asked my friends if they can give me a more appropriate term.
And they cam up with : primal elixir
Elixir = essential principal

[Interuniversalism]

Originally Posted by Curious-one

I have heard that human beings want to be like God. We are part spirit and part material. Why do humans want to be like God? Curious-One

I answer with a question. Why humans are part spirit. Where does this spirit come from? Does God have plan? What do we need so as to become God?

We talk about God's mercy and generosity.
A millionaire gives a hundred dollar to a needy.
A person that has only one roller (all he has): gives it to a needy.
Which one is more generose.
My dear God is infinate and so is his mercy and generosity.
But as a rich father awaited his child to be mature enough.
Yes we want to be God and be one with him. When we are spritualy matured. And then live for ever.
Don't you want that?