Are you a believer that the world is God?

Thinker108 · #1 21-07-2011, 09:28 AM

#2 21-07-2011, 09:42 AM

To some extent yes, my view and belief is that God as a individual deity as a father-like creator...the Earth itself is a mother Goddess, the two of them creates everything on Earth - essences of life. That is why he is unknown, silent, merciful yet not...God is many things yet one, and so is the Goddess.

theophilus · #3 21-07-2011, 02:29 PM

The world isn't God but was created by him. Its existence reveals a little bit of his power and wisdom.

#4 21-07-2011, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Thinker108

Are you a believer that the world is God?

No.

It is enough for the world to be the world. Tacking on the label God doesn't add anything useful for me personally.

eudaimonia,

Mark

#5 21-07-2011, 02:51 PM

The world created us ( in our understanding), so yes... hence "mother earth"

#6 21-07-2011, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Thinker108

Are you a believer that the world is God?

Well I think God is Everything that Was, Everything That Is, and Everything That Ever Will Be. The Alpha and Omega. So yes.

psychoslice · #7 22-07-2011, 01:30 AM

No, the world is not god, the world is what IS, god is is just a concept applied to what IS, to believe that the world is god is to reduce what IS to a mere thought, this thought separates what IS into a dualistic concept, that is you and god, you being the believer and god being the world, take away you, take away god, and there you have what IS, but don't now get caught up in the what IS, there isn't even that.

#8 22-07-2011, 02:47 AM

This depends on how one thinks of God. For me, the male parental deity micromanaging our lives is an ancient passe concept.

Changing Ideas About God- http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...49240#poststop

If one considers the energies we call God the Universe, the world is part of the Universe, as are we. Interconnected. Being part of the Universe isn’t being the Universe, but it is OF the Universe, inextricably connected. The Universe manifesting in many ways including the world & us.

While the ideas that world is God & we are God aren’t exactly correct (90% correct), needing a bit more definition they are MUCH more correct than we & the world being separated from God (2% correct).

#9 22-07-2011, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by psychoslice

No, the world is not god, the world is what IS, god is is just a concept applied to what IS, to believe that the world is god is to reduce what IS to a mere thought, this thought separates what IS into a dualistic concept, that is you and god, you being the believer and god being the world, take away you, take away god, and there you have what IS, but don't now get caught up in the what IS, there isn't even that.

I'm confused and frankly don't understand what you mean by this? God does not have to be separate from us. We are all one. The Universe is God to me. The word God has been so misconceptualized throughout thousands of years.

Thinker108 · #10 23-07-2011, 03:16 AM

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I'm confused and frankly don't understand what you mean by this? God does not have to be separate from us. We are all one. The Universe is God to me. The word God has been so misconceptualized throughout thousands of years.

Welcome Moke ,you are quite right.