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Since we discussed the creation, let's now discuss the creator.
Here is another of the "Great Questions". My philosophy is that
"religion is like a pair of pants it doesn't matter what kind
you have as long as you have some" (me, 2004). In other words,
it doesn't really matter what you believe the divine is, as long
as you believe in divinity. Religions all over the world are more
similar than most people realize anyway.
Opinions of what the divine are, are just that, opinions. No
one can know the truth until they are dead. Why should people
believe there is divinity? For a multitude of reasons, I think.
For one, I think because it makes people feel good and be good.
Like the old saying, "Better to live like there is a God and find
out there isn't, than to live like there isn't and find out there
is" (reference unknown).
Defining divine. In philosophy they called God omniscient, omnibenevolent
and omnipotent. I completely believe there is an ultimate divine
being. I just don't view the divine as some old, long-haired man.
Certainly he could be. I just don't buy it. For instance, Christianity
views God as omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent. However,
New Testaments version of God and the Old Testaments version of
God do not show him consistently. In modern terms God wasn't always
a nice, all-forgiving, old guy in the Old Testament.
It's not just Christianity though, same goes for most monotheistic
religions. This is actually a Philosophy question. Descartes was
a famous philosopher who tried to prove the existence of self
and God. A lot of his logic was based on the "Cartesian circle".
It's a great way to argue your point to the point that you confuse
the other person into quitting the argument. While cool, it's
not the best way to prove your point. I like Descartes, but there's
a lot I don't agree with him about. There's just too many arguments
for the whole "omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent".
I envision the divine as one ultimate, all-encompassing being.
It is everything and everything is a part of it. The divine is
both masculine and feminine. Therefore it is a God and a Goddess.
As humans we get our personalities, spirits and emotions from
this God and Goddess. Therefore, they have all of these and more
than we as humans could imagine. This is how a single God and
Goddess have made their different aspects of themselves. Each
God from every religion is real and lives forever separately as
well as a whole in whatever "Heaven" is. Just as the divine created
us, we create and sustain them with our thoughts.
[List of Gods/Goddesses]
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