(September 4, 2018 at 10:16 am)MysticKnight Wrote: The word means what is worshipped or what ought to be worshipped depending on context.
The highest level of respect and valuing is what we worship.
If it's not the absolute being we worship, then we worship something else.
The greatest loss are those who take their own desire as a god and everyone is trampled upon due to their self-centered perceptions.
The thing about recognizing God is that you must see the signs of God within yourself and in compassion and love to others, and in that, lies a unity, that is loving the face of God in everything, that his light is spread through out all living beings.
Even the worse of beings (Satan for examples) get's some compassion and some beauty of theirs is adored, due to the face of God aspect of them.
The chaotic type unbalanced type love, where we love ourselves more then everything else, and then make idols we equate with God out of that love, and sacrifice the truth and attribute to the light of God darkness all out of that love of ourselves, is the root of the chaos and oppression in the world.
Monotheism is easy to claim by mouth, but to put it in practice, requires to break the idol that we seek to serve, that Iblis makes us think is us, but isn't our true selves.
Had the path been directed to other then God and would be a guidance, God would have let us walk it, but evil and dark are the paths misleading from him.
Sufficient in this although I didn't phrase how is an argument for God that proves him beyond doubt.
Thank you for fitting so neatly into my first category:
(September 4, 2018 at 6:37 am)pocaracas Wrote: For the common folk, god seems to be a sort of ruler of the whole cosmos, keeping everything in balance and in proper working order. Much like a very powerful king. It seems to be an actual entity with thinking capacity, one that can interact with reality and reality can influence it....
I did expect most Muslims to align themselves with this version of a god.
