WHAT ARE WE?

[Ahermit]

A few nights ago I had a dream about Christ/Truth working behind the scenes of my Being, as if altering my life program. It occurred to me that I have some new truth placed into me. I awoke out of my sleep to write down my dream - a custom I do for inspired artworks. However, what I started to write was the idea that we are simply thought machines. Then the following glossary unfolded within several minutes.

WHAT ARE WE?

MIND: is software.

BRAIN: is wetware for the software.

BODY: is hardware for the wetware.

THOUGHTS: is running software (affected by virus or not)

SPIRIT: is the energy which empowers the body and brain.

EVIL: is a virus in the mind/software.

VIRUS: (the apple) taken like a drug. Evil people are virus addicts.

EGO-SELF: is the ghost in the mind, or a virus in the software.

GOD: is the source of pure, incorrupt energy. God is the programmer and builder of all animate (life) and inanimate forms.

EARTH: is a collection point for animate and inanimate forms of God consciousness.

WORLD: is whatever is affected (both animate/inanimate forms) by evil/virus

TRUTH: is the anti-virus; the pure incorrupt energy.

BELIEFS: is an agreement as to which programming software to run – truth or virus.

FAITH: is trusting the desired programming will be run.

HOLY SPIRIT: is the anti-virus program that runs of/on Truth. Is the Spirit of Christ/Truth in us.

JESUS CHRIST: is a man of Truth, and is the tested anti-virus program of Truth in a man, and it was pleasing to God.

CONSCIENCE: is a virus detector, detecting what is truth (right) and virus (wrong).

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: is Truth/pure program running.

GOD’S IMAGE: is a man of Truth.

GOD’S WILL: is for us to be True. When we run true we are aligned to God’s will. When we run and change from virus to truth without consciously wanting to, are belief + faith allowing God’s will to make corrections – revealing Truths.

GRACE/MERCY: is an updated program of Truth.

MIRACLE: is exercised truth by God and approved by faith and belief in Truth according to God’s will.

PRAYER: is our attempt at programming (God’s image) depending on our belief and faith, the Holy Spirit, and our conscience.

HUMBLE and MEEK: is allowing whatever truth we have running and to cease the virus from running. H&M allows the truth to replace the virus. H&M allows the anti-virus to make adjustments according to the Programmer of Truth.

SOUL: is the deposit of God’s image, a template, the foundation to construct a being upon the choices taken in life.

 

[Gordon Wright]

Very interesting. Be careful of the antivirus analogy. Antivirus doesn't actually solve the root problem in a computer, which is a poorly designed operating system. Many antivirus programs cause almost as many problems as a virus would.

A real fix to the problem of sin would require a change far more profound than installing Norton Antivirus. Where's Linux in your analogy?

 

[warrior of Christ 94]

Saint Anselm of Canterbury developed what is called the Ontological argument for the existence of God. http://www.philosophyofreligion.inf...cal-argument/st-anselms-ontological-argument/

A formal statement of this argument might be constructed as follows:

Anselm’s Ontological Argument
(1) God is that than which no greater can be conceived.
(2) If God is that than which no greater can be conceived then there is nothing greater than God that can be imagined.
Therefore:
(3) There is nothing greater than God that can be imagined.
(4) If God does not exist then there is something greater than God that can be imagined.
Therefore:
(5) God exists.

The first premise of this argument, (1), is Anselm’s conception of God. (2) is a simple logical truth; if God is the greatest conceivable being then there is no greater conceivable being. (3) follows simply from (1) and (2).

Anselm argues in support of (4) by comparing a non-existent God with an existent God. An existent God, says Anselm, is greater than a non-existent God. If God were non-existent, therefore, then we could imagine a God greater than he, namely an existent God.

(5) follows simply from (3) and (4).

In other words God is the greatest thought in which all conceivable thoughts are contained. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (thought) and the word was with God and the Word was God.
We are created in the image of God, so if God is the Greatest Thought there is, we must be Smaller Thoughts contained within the Greatest Thought.

 

[fhansen]

And it seems that it could be said that we have a role to play in deciding which program to run-whether or not we'll go along with God's program, so to speak.