Why seek "God"?

[toLiJC]

Your deity sounds like it is locked in an eternal struggle with something it cannot master (the darkness).

the true One can stop the manifestation of the "darkness" and He is about to accomplish it, but the "darkness" simply can't be destroyed completely and permanently for all the time's infinity, because it is after all indestructible...

do you think you could resolve the problem once and for all the time's infinity if you were in His place?! - the fact that God can't change something doesn't mean that He is weaker than the "darkness" or that you are more powerful than Him or that He is not the only true God...

Blessings

 

[dlamberth]

What did you do to un-blind yourself, so that you have known for yourself this event regarding Joseph?

Perhaps another way of looking at that piece of scripture that might work for you is as myth with built in spiritual learning lessons. And it's the lessons that matters and not the event storied in the myth.

 

[Robban]

What did you do to un-blind yourself, so that you have known for yourself this event regarding Joseph?

From birth we open our eyes and from there on it is a matter of observation.
I said I did not want to get caught up in this 38 page going nowhere thread.

One reason is;
Amal=Labor, suffering, also distress and despair.

The skeptic, more than any other challenger,
wears out the believer and causes him to despair.

(Amalek has the same value as doubt)
The Amalekites are no more, (dispersed)

But the spirit of skepticism is alive and kicking.

The skeptic can destroy, in an instant understandings and commitments that take years to establish.

Not by countering your argument with reason,
they dismantle it by mak.ing light of it.

 

[toLiJC]

John 14:6: No one comes to the Father except THROUGH me. The "through" part invites a deeper communion with Christ that goes way beyond "Faith".

Jesus didn't/doesn't say that having the Father is a matter of going beyond the faith, though it is not possible without Jesus...

I'm still wondering what you have to say about the "Heart of Christ", as experienced "through" Christ?

we don't speak about knowing the heart of Christ Himself - guess why?, but we can speak about mind of Christ working in us

Blessings

 

[Dwells]

the true One can stop the manifestation of the "darkness" and He is about to accomplish it, but the "darkness" simply can't be destroyed completely and permanently for all the time's infinity, because it is after all indestructible...

do you think you could resolve the problem once and for all the time's infinity if you were in His place?! - the fact that God can't change something doesn't mean that He is weaker than the "darkness" or that you are more powerful than Him or that He is not the only true God...

Blessings

God created everything.

 

[Khalliqa]

the true One can stop the manifestation of the "darkness" and He is about to accomplish it, but the "darkness" simply can't be destroyed completely and permanently for all the time's infinity, because it is after all indestructible...

He is ABOUT to? oof... sorry that's just.. wow..

 

[toLiJC]

It's the "awareness" of the spiritual activity is when it becomes mysticism. That's true for any spiritual activity.

why do you think if you use the word "mysticism" or "mystic" it will change something about betterment?! - mysticism is usually full of satanic things such as devilish spirits(kundalini, chakras, aum, etc.) and heresies(the doctrine of: three gunas, karma, samsara, etc.), so mysticism is dangerous...

Blessings

 

[toLiJC]

God created everything.

what do you mean by "everything"?!, does the true One create evil?!, to put it another way, is He unrighteous/sinful?!

Blessings

 

[dlamberth]

- mysticism is usually full of satanic things such as devilish spirits(kundalini, chakras, aum, etc.) and heresies(the doctrine of: three gunas, karma, samsara, etc.), so mysticism is dangerous...

I've been giving you example of where mysticism comes in with knowing Christ! How you tie in all of that other stuff to Christ is beyond me.

 

[dlamberth]

what do you mean by "everything"?!, does the true One create evil?!, to put it another way, is He unrighteous/sinful?!

God is life!! That includes every single bit of it.

 

[toLiJC]

He is ABOUT to? oof... sorry that's just.. wow..

yes, if i wanted to live in an illusion, i would live in the comics of marvel and dc, but maybe you know even the greatest comic books' characters are not infinitely powerful...

Blessings

 

[ananda]

the true One can stop the manifestation of the "darkness" and He is about to accomplish it, but the "darkness" simply can't be destroyed completely and permanently for all the time's infinity, because it is after all indestructible...

do you think you could resolve the problem once and for all the time's infinity if you were in His place?! - the fact that God can't change something doesn't mean that He is weaker than the "darkness" or that you are more powerful than Him or that He is not the only true God...

Blessings

The Buddha is said to have resolved the issue.

 

[ananda]

Perhaps another way of looking at that piece of scripture that might work for you is as myth with built in spiritual learning lessons. And it's the lessons that matters and not the event storied in the myth.

I can agree that the lesson matters more than the historical event - we take the same perspective in early Buddhism.

The Dhamma (the teachings) matters more than the history behind it all, since we can test the teachings for ourselves in the here-and-now.

 

[ananda]

From birth we open our eyes and from there on it is a matter of observation.
I said I did not want to get caught up in this 38 page going nowhere thread.

One reason is;
Amal=Labor, suffering, also distress and despair.

The skeptic, more than any other challenger,
wears out the believer and causes him to despair.

(Amalek has the same value as doubt)
The Amalekites are no more, (dispersed)

But the spirit of skepticism is alive and kicking.

The skeptic can destroy, in an instant understandings and commitments that take years to establish.

Not by countering your argument with reason,
they dismantle it by mak.ing light of it.

Thanks for your participation.

 

[FrankDux]

" Buddhism explains our search in terms of dukkha (aka suffering, discontentment, displeasure, etc.) "

And Christianity is the story of how God comes to earth in human form to take those things on himself to help us escape them

Personally, I wouldn't mind finding that man someday

seems simple enough

 

[ananda]

" Buddhism explains our search in terms of dukkha (aka suffering, discontentment, displeasure, etc.) "

And Christianity is the story of how God comes to earth in human form to take those things on himself to help us escape them

Personally, I wouldn't mind finding that man someday

seems simple enough

If it is simple, have you found the God-in-human-form yourself? (himself, not his alleged attributes, like "love")

 

[toLiJC]

I've been giving you example of where mysticism comes in with knowing Christ! How you tie in all of that other stuff to Christ is beyond me.

Jesus Christ talks about faith, not mysticism, or so what have you achieved by being a mystic, and so what have the mystics achieved through their so-called mysticism?!, Jesus as well as each of His true disciples presented in the Bible cast the devilish spirits completely and permanently out of the demon-possessed people They met, and healed the sick of all kinds of wounds, disorders, diseases, syndromes and invalidism without there having been any recurrence of any disease/syndrome/disorder afterward, resurrected dead in the true "Light", etc., while the so-called "mystics" have never done any of the things Jesus and His true disciples did two millennia ago...

Blessings

 

[dlamberth]

If it is simple, have you found the God-in-human-form yourself? (himself, not his alleged attributes, like "love")

Yes...within each and every human being!

 

[toLiJC]

I've been giving you example of where mysticism comes in with knowing Christ! How you tie in all of that other stuff to Christ is beyond me.

where in the Bible do you find the word "mysticism"?!, nor can you find the words "spirituality" and "religiosity" therein, because spirituality equals to occultism/heretical movement, and religiosity equals to idolatry...

Blessings

 

[ananda]

Yes...within each and every human being!

I must be quite a poor God. I haven't realized my almightiness!