Who or What is God?

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by Legrand

Does it not come to the same as saying : if you can give a name to Tao then it's not Tao?



Some do need a band aid to explain and live in this world.

Antoine

Maybe, but.........

Yahweh became the predominate God of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

Parts of the Bible were not written from the Northern Kingdom of Israel's viewpoint. Those specific writings were written from the Kingdom of Judah's viewpoint. When the 2 government's fought against each other, I suspect the real cause was not fully documented in the Bible. One of the main causes of the battles seems to revolve around Yahweh's consort Asherah.

Archaeologists have 'dugged up' ample evidence of this. Her statues, alongside Yahweh's statue, portray her as a woman with a male appendage.

I suspect this 'anomaly' put Yahweh in such a position that attributes to one of the reasons why Yahweh's name is not known by most people and the obversion of certain sexual practices.

[ThatMan]

Originally Posted by BigJohn

Maybe, but.........

Yahweh became the predominate God of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

Parts of the Bible were not written from the Northern Kingdom of Israel's viewpoint. Those specific writings were written from the Kingdom of Judah's viewpoint. When the 2 government's fought against each other, I suspect the real cause was not fully documented in the Bible. One of the main causes of the battles seems to revolve around Yahweh's consort Asherah.

Archaeologists have 'dugged up' ample evidence of this. Her statues, alongside Yahweh's statue, portray her as a woman with a male appendage.

I suspect this 'anomaly' put Yahweh in such a position that attributes to one of the reasons why Yahweh's name is not known by most people and the obversion of certain sexual practices.

I've been suspecting for quite some time that Yahweh was just a lower god.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by ThatMan

I've been suspecting for quite some time that Yahweh was just a lower god.

Hard to say.

Yahweh could have been the Supreme God or one of many Gods.

Before the civil war, Yahweh was called the name of God. The tribe of Judah had already forgotten their God Yahweh and when the civil war began, it was what would become the Northern Kingdom of Israel continued to worship Yahweh. Then before the civil war was over with, what would become the Kingdom of Judah came to realize that they had been worshiping the wrong God and began worshiping Yahweh. At that time period, both nations were worshiping Yahweh in completely different fashions.

Originally Posted by Shivani Devi

If I were a Christian, I would feel incredibly insulted by those who said that the religion I followed was "keeping me in ignorance" or "controlling me" and all those terrible insults people use which borders on verbal abuse due to me making a positive "lifestyle choice" they vehemently disagree with.

I mean, I get enough of it for being a Hindu, but I can imagine that the religious intolerance and persecution would be ten times worse for a Christian...and so, the Christian will go to their priest with this who will tell them that such people who condemn the choices of others have negative energy parasites which are controlling THEM...which secularizes the particular religious tradition even MORE and this is how fanatics are created, which only perpetuates the whole cycle of hatred.

Maybe I am starting to feel empathy towards my fellow "believers" Irrespective of Faith, because in the end, there will only be two factions fighting each other...those who believe in God vs those who do not...while the Buddhists will say "we are not getting involved in that".

Hello Shivani,

I understand your point of view.

But did you know that in our Catholic French part of the world, the province of Quebec, part of Canada, and America, not even 50 years ago you would not have been even allowed to enter a church by the priest because you did not gave birth to a child?

To take a example, my grand mother who had already gave birth to 13 children at the age of 38, received a visit from the priest every week, who would insist very strongly, that she must still have more children.

I do not call this a religion anymore…

Simply,

Antoine

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by Legrand

Hello Shivani,

I understand your point of view.

But did you know that in our Catholic French part of the world, the province of Quebec, part of Canada, and America, not even 50 years ago you would not have been even allowed to enter a church by the priest because you did not gave birth to a child?

To take a example, my grand mother who had already gave birth to 13 children at the age of 38, received a visit from the priest every week, who would insist very strongly, that she must still have more children.

I do not call this a religion anymore…

Simply,

Antoine

Are you saying because some members of a religion do 'bad' things, then that religion is 'bad'?

Originally Posted by BigJohn

Are you saying because some members of a religion do 'bad' things, then that religion is 'bad'?

Hello Big John,

They are very nice thing in the Christian religion core. But some of the actions done by a lot of priest under the name of the institution it became are not what I would call religious.

The story tells, did not Jesus become mad when he entered the Temple where everyone was doing commerce in it?

And like I said, I do understand Shivani point of view.

Antoine,

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by Legrand

Hello Big John,

They are very nice thing in the Christian religion core. But some of the actions done by a lot of priest under the name of the institution it became are not what I would call religious.

The story tells, did not Jesus become mad when he entered the Temple where everyone was doing commerce in it?

And like I said, I do understand Shivani point of view.

Antoine,

Where in the New Testament does it mention a Christian Priest arrangement? It doesn't.

As for people doing commerce in the Temple: that is something most religions will not tolerate.

[neil]

Originally Posted by Legrand

Hello Big John,

They are very nice thing in the Christian religion core. But some of the actions done by a lot of priest under the name of the institution it became are not what I would call religious.

The story tells, did not Jesus become mad when he entered the Temple where everyone was doing commerce in it?

Antoine,

No he did not become mad. A person such as Jesus, who is at one with the Father, is ALL HOLY, ALL LOVING & ALL MERCIFUL. As they are as the Father is & can never become mad angry or unloving in any way shape or form whatsoever. Because they have been TRANSFORMED into the very essence of the Heavenly Father Christ entity.

And as I am told & led to understand, is that Jesus spoke LOVINGLY & sensibly about the entire situation & suggested that things needed to be changed, for the betterment of everyone.

& as he spoke, the masses become angry and took it upon themselves to upturn the tables.

If anybody believes that an all holy, all Loving & all Merciful being of the christ essence can be an angry unloving person then that person does not understand the truths of the Heavenly Father Christ entity and it's WAY OF LOVE.

Originally Posted by neil

No he did not become mad. A person such as Jesus, who is at one with the Father, is ALL HOLY, ALL LOVING & ALL MERCIFUL. As they are as the Father is & can never become mad angry or unloving in any way shape or form whatsoever. Because they have been TRANSFORMED into the very essence of the Heavenly Father Christ entity.

And as I am told & led to understand, is that Jesus spoke LOVINGLY & sensibly about the entire situation & suggested that things needed to be changed, for the betterment of everyone.

& as he spoke, the masses become angry and took it upon themselves to upturn the tables.

If anybody believes that an all holy, all Loving & all Merciful being of the christ essence can be an angry unloving person then that person does not understand the truths of the Heavenly Father Christ entity and it's WAY OF LOVE.

Hi Neil,

You should tell that to the ones remaking history, like the producers of those films.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+in+the+temple

Antoine

[Miss Hepburn]

neil-"
... as he spoke, the masses become angry and took it upon themselves to upturn the tables.


Where did you get this information? Thanks, I will glance thru the James E. Padget messages
to see if it is mentioned when I have time.

Imo, btw, being angry at your brother compared to a teacher showing anger as a teaching lesson -
a correction of wrong doing
for those that would understand no less...I feel is fine for a Holy person, Yogi, Swami, Guru even today.