When you look around yourself <\/strong>and start to realize mortality, and the seeming insignificance of life, it’s hard to maintain a healthy “get up and go” attitude.\u00a0 Especially when you have a lot of time on your hands. After knocking around <\/strong>the religious “churchian” world for a while, you come in contact with many different ministries. most of which start out, at least, with a very good hearted, God centered ideology\/doctrine.\u00a0 That of helping people in crisis, and spreading the Gospel.\u00a0 But we all suffer from a very human condition: we only see things through our eyes and hear with our ears, and only understand things vaguely through a filter of our own understanding.\u00a0 Even if God himself sends an angel to sit on our head, and deliver a message with thunder, straight to our heart, we will often stray off with our own ego to fulfill our fleshly yearnings and desires.\u00a0 At least He gives us grace, thank you God.<\/p>\n But there is one thing <\/strong>I have noticed, both in Christians, and seekers who don’t know him: A fundamental lack of understanding about who and what God really is.\u00a0 Not that there is some special thing about my perspective, there is just as much lack on my part as anyone’s. What do we know about God? Now we can find Biblical backing for each of those 6 statements.\u00a0 But that is not the point.\u00a0 The point is to examine these concepts through fresh eyes, with logic and reason (which because #1, God created, just saying).\u00a0 Not for the purpose of “proving” God, because that isn’t possible, but for the purpose of understanding what it means to us who seek to truly “know” Him.<\/p>\n 1. God created everything. 2. The ONLY thing that God cannot do is lie. 3. There is nothing that God cannot control, create, recreate, uncreate or destroy utterly.<\/strong> 4. There is nothing that God doesn’t know.\u00a0 No secrets.<\/strong> 5. God, Himself, is ultimately a Person, who thinks, and has emotions.<\/strong> 6. God does not make mistakes and His judgement is always sound. Life, the Universe, and Everything from the perspective of a silly little puny human being… When you look around yourself and start to realize mortality, and the seeming insignificance of life, it’s hard to maintain a healthy “get up and go” attitude.\u00a0 Especially when you have a lot of time on your hands. But if … Continue reading What is God?<\/span>
\nBut if you look at things with a Christian perspective, you realize that the reason God gives you “time on your hands” is that He expects you to do something with it, and then share it with other equally fallible and insignificant people.\u00a0 This is my attempt at that.<\/p>\n
\nBut there is this:
\nPeople tend to take doctrines and scriptures as fundamental truths, but they don’t ask themselves, or think about the very concept of “God Almighty”, what does it mean exactly, and how does it effect your relationship\u00a0<\/strong>to that person?
\nBecause that is the fundamental thing about God, He is a PERSON<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Casting aside for a moment all of the doctrine we learn from other completely fallible people, we know several indisputable things about Him:
\n1. God created everything.
\n2. The ONLY <\/strong>thing that God cannot do is lie.
\n3. There is nothing that God cannot control, create, recreate, uncreate or destroy utterly.
\n4. There is nothing that God doesn’t know.\u00a0 No secrets.
\n5. God, Himself, is ultimately a Person, who thinks, and has emotions.
\n6. God does not make mistakes and His judgement is always sound.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>There is no “before God”.
\nWe know our personal history, we remember our lives, and know our parentage, ancestry, and culture.\u00a0 Those things exist for us because of our memories of our personal existence, and through the relationship we have with elders, parents and grandparents etc., we know of a “before us”.\u00a0 That is one reason we get twisted up sometimes, because we don’t understand and can argue the “existence” of God because who made GOD?\u00a0 We don’t see that as backwards.
\nThe fact is, there is no “existence of God”.\u00a0 God is, by definition “existence”.
\nWe call God, “The Father”, because through Him everything exists.\u00a0 He is ultimately the parent of everything, even Himself.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>That is because anything that God says comes to pass.\u00a0 Everything that exists “became” because God said a word about it.\u00a0 The world, the universe, time anything you can think of that exists, and the 99.99999% that you can’t even think of.
\nWe don’t understand that because we can lie SO easily.
\nBut we don’t have that power of words that God has, because He never gave it to us.\u00a0 He made us in his image, though, so we can create as He does, but imperfectly.\u00a0 What we say doesn’t come to pass because we SAY it.
\nThis may lead some to a false idea that God created the “lie”.
\nWhat HE did, was create individuals with free will, with the ability to conceive in their minds things that do not exist, but without the power to bring it into existence simply by SAYING it with our mouth.
\nThis is His gift to us all, and like all good things God has given us it is like a two edged sword.
\nBecause we can conceive in our minds new things that do not exist, we can bring new things into being.\u00a0 That is where all art, science, engineering, philosophy, technology comes from.
\nBecause we have free will, we are not bound and forced to do only the thing that God wants of us, we can direct ourselves.\u00a0 This is where war, crimes, lies and evil come from.
\nBecause we are “mortal”, and our lives end ultimately, we have to suffer the consequences of our free will.\u00a0 This is where disease, death, pain and heartbreak come from, but also love, joy, peace, family and freedom.<\/p>\n
\nKeeping in context of a person that can bring things into being simply by saying them, a person which created time and space is not bound by those things.\u00a0 There is nothing that is, now, was before, or ever will be that cannot be undone simply by God saying “you never existed”.\u00a0 This person is not bound by our understanding, by our perception of time, our idea of “reality”, our wants, fears, philosophies, creations, foes, family are as nothing.
\nIt’s not enough to say that He is all powerful, because He is all power.\u00a0 As in all there is.<\/p>\n
\nIf this person isn’t bound by any of the things we are, time, space, are not walls to Him, then even if we had the power to “hide” our thoughts and actions from him, He would be able to go and find them if He willed.\u00a0 There is nothing in the natural world He doesn’t know, because He created it all.\u00a0 There is nothing in the spiritual world He doesn’t know, because…well…He created it, too.<\/p>\n
\nWe were created in God’s image.\u00a0 All of the things that make us as we are, are the things that God is.\u00a0 The free will, the ability to create, and the ability to love, hate, be angry, be happy, be sad, be joyful are the things and abilities we share WITH God.\u00a0 This eternal person is called “The Father” for a reason.\u00a0 He is our family.\u00a0 He watches over us with both the pride, and sometimes shame, that our fleshly fathers have for us.\u00a0 He loves us as a father would, but with the ability to do so without the failures we as earthly fathers sometimes have.\u00a0 This Father wants to guide us, help us to grow, provide for us and give us the ability to make the right, worthy, moral, healthy and righteous decisions as free willed individuals.\u00a0\u00a0 He wants a relationship with us.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>As God is existence, power, life, knows everything and our own Father who truly loves us, there is nothing we can do in life that would be better than to trust His judgement.\u00a0 We have a hearing problem, though.\u00a0 It’s not totally our fault, but it is our responsibility to correct it.
\nSo, I hear. “pray, read, and pray some more” a lot from Christians.\u00a0 It’s good advice, but it’s not good enough.\u00a0 God is a PERSON <\/strong>not some “force” or special power, or ghost or alien thing.\u00a0 He is LIKE US, if we were perfect, LOVES US like a Father loves His babies, and WANTS to have that relationship WITH US.
\nTalk to Him, question Him, fight with Him if necessary, you would fight with your own father sometimes it’s necessary.
\nMost of all, THINK about him, meditate on what He is, maybe WHY He is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"