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Originally Posted by Dave
If Harold finds God in nature or otherwise it doesn't necessarily indicate that he believes in a God who loves everyone or anything unconditionally. It simply means that his view of God reflect the living and dying we know. It's reality. It's not a plastic "god" who lives forever (okay, maybe plastic only lasts 10,000 years). Maybe God for you speaks only through your interpretation of the Bible but maybe for Harold God speaks through many interpretations of the Bible, Egyptian writings, other ancients, poems of Emerson, writings of Faulkner etc. If God is so unlimited why are you limiting God to 66 letters and books?
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Thanks Dave. I can't blame Untohim for getting Harold's God all wrong. Even I don't know Harold's God. The androgynous whoever is a grand mystery to me.
But I do enjoy 'him' in nature, and sense a presence of something I call God ; perhaps a invisible friend for adults.
Untohim can't stand God being mysterious. He obviously need certitude. And he thinks he gets that from 66 books.
But his God still turns out to be a mystery. Just the big difference between the 39 books and the 27 books results in a confusion of what God is really like.
Methinks he needs to take a look at Meister Eckhart's God:
"Anything we say about God is a lie."---Meister Eckhart
"God is closer to me than I am to myself: my being depends on God's being
near me and present to me. So God is also in a stone or a log of wood, only
they do not know it. If the wood knew God and realized how close God is to
it...it would be blessed as the highest angel. And so I am more blessed
than a stone or a piece of wood because I am aware of God and know how
close God is to me. And I am the more blessed, the more I realize this, and
I am the less blessed the less I know this. I am not blessed because God is
in me, but because I am aware of how close God is to me, and that I know
God." - Meister Eckhart