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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 8, 2020 at 12:13 pm
@Unity I can't correctly reply to your quote wall;
1: Of course FSM is beyond those things, XE just doesn't like to brag.
2: I am unfamiliar with the baha'i or bath tub as I will call it faith, Only that it is wrong.
3: Whatever your taking, Lower the dosage
4: May FSM warm your cold heart. RAmen
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming" -The Prophet Boiardi-
Conservative trigger warning.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 8, 2020 at 12:22 pm
(March 5, 2020 at 3:49 pm)unityconversation Wrote: Hi.
So the perspective that I have is that, we will never fully and completely know God.
The only way to know God is to know His names and attributes.
Even though the human being is an animal just like all other species, we are distinct because we have a divine reality.
The human being has the potential to display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, that's what makes us have dominion over the animal.
The names and attributes of God are basically all of the good qualities that is possible for the human being to have, it's just that society doesn't call them that.
The human being is the most perfect of all creation.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 8, 2020 at 2:59 pm
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "So, for the sake of total clarity, do you think we will never discover god"?
Yes, we actually discover God every day through human beings.
Wait... You just said, "So the perspective that I have is that, we will never fully and completely know God."
But now you're saying that we can "discover god every day through human beings."
Which one is it?
And what does discovering god every day through human beings actually mean, specifically?
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said "I mean we first have to establish that a god exists in order for one to somehow have a relationship with that god."
We establish that God exists by listening to the divine teachings of the current Prophet / Messenger / Manifestation.
How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "Furthermore, even if a god did exist, how do you know it would be interested in having some kind of psychic relationship with you?"
Well as I said earlier God is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know, so we will never know God completely, that is His core essence.
How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense.
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: But by knowing the human reality, we can know a good number of things about God. And this is especially true with the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations.
What does "knowing human reality" even mean? Be specific. And how do you know anything about god?
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 8, 2020 at 3:04 pm
@ EgoDeath Dude, you are late to the party
It's a bah'ai stuff, it falls in line with the usual schtick, no different from the other religions.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 8, 2020 at 3:07 pm
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@ LastPoet
I'm trying to tease that out for myself. Who knows... maybe he/she will realize how nonsensical it is.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm
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(March 8, 2020 at 2:59 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: (March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "So, for the sake of total clarity, do you think we will never discover god"?
Yes, we actually discover God every day through human beings.
Wait... You just said, "So the perspective that I have is that, we will never fully and completely know God."
But now you're saying that we can "discover god every day through human beings."
Which one is it?
And what does discovering god every day through human beings actually mean, specifically?
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said "I mean we first have to establish that a god exists in order for one to somehow have a relationship with that god."
We establish that God exists by listening to the divine teachings of the current Prophet / Messenger / Manifestation.
How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "Furthermore, even if a god did exist, how do you know it would be interested in having some kind of psychic relationship with you?"
Well as I said earlier God is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know, so we will never know God completely, that is His core essence.
How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense.
(March 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm)unityconversation Wrote: But by knowing the human reality, we can know a good number of things about God. And this is especially true with the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations.
What does "knowing human reality" even mean? Be specific. And how do you know anything about god?
You said: How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
It is the combination of the divine teachings and the life of the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations that prove the existence of God.
Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that.
The Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations can manifest the names and attributes of God to the physical world at the highest level "perfectly."
So the thing is, if you "really" want to know God, the "absolute" best way to do that is to know the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations.
You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age.
You said: "Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense."
We can't know God in terms of His core essence, that will never be known. But the other things of God like His names and attributes can be known. And we discover those every day with human beings.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: (March 8, 2020 at 2:59 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Wait... You just said, "So the perspective that I have is that, we will never fully and completely know God."
But now you're saying that we can "discover god every day through human beings."
Which one is it?
And what does discovering god every day through human beings actually mean, specifically?
How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense.
What does "knowing human reality" even mean? Be specific. And how do you know anything about god?
You said: How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
It is the combination of the divine teachings and the life of the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations that prove the existence of God.
Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that.
The Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations can manifest the names and attributes of God to the physical world at the highest level "perfectly."
So the thing is, if you "really" want to know God, the "absolute" best way to do that is to know the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations.
You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age.
You said: "Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense."
We can't know God in terms of His core essence, that will never be known. But the other things of God like His names and attributes can be known. And we discover those every day with human beings.
The human reality just means the spiritual reality of the human being, not physical. The spiritual reality of the human being are things like the divine qualities that we display and manifest to the physical world.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 10, 2020 at 1:58 pm
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that.
No real human individual is quite so irredeemably nasty as to combine all of the attributes of God: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Although some do try.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age.
Oh the invisible, immaterial God in another dimension (someone obviously hasn't visited Carl Sagan's garage).
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 10, 2020 at 3:03 pm
(March 10, 2020 at 1:58 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: (March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that.
No real human individual is quite so irredeemably nasty as to combine all of the attributes of God: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Although some do try.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age.
Oh the invisible, immaterial God in another dimension (someone obviously hasn't visited Carl Sagan's garage).
You said: "No real human individual is quite so irredeemably nasty as to combine all of the attributes of God: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Although some do try."
Actually those are attributes of the animal.
The best way to "see" God, is to see the human being.
We are manifesting God all the time.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 10, 2020 at 3:20 pm
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: (March 8, 2020 at 2:59 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Wait... You just said, "So the perspective that I have is that, we will never fully and completely know God."
But now you're saying that we can "discover god every day through human beings."
Which one is it?
And what does discovering god every day through human beings actually mean, specifically?
How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense.
What does "knowing human reality" even mean? Be specific. And how do you know anything about god?
You said: How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
Sure. How do they? You think you have answered that, but have you? Lets find out.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: It is the combination of the divine teachings and the life of the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations that prove the existence of God. What divine teachings? Whose divine teachings? Every single one of them so far is immoral. Mo was a blatant warlord, jebus was jewish end times proponent, and so on. not a single one of them got anything right. So where exactly are these magic prophets that somehow know the mind of god?
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that. That is a direct claim. Provide evidence for that claim. You will not because you cannot and you know it.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: The Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations can manifest the names and attributes of God to the physical world at the highest level "perfectly." Another claim. Was jebus manifesting god when he never condemned slavery? Was mo manifesting god when he engaged in paedophilia?
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: So the thing is, if you "really" want to know God, the "absolute" best way to do that is to know the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations. All of them are obvious cunts of the highest order. Why would anyone put any credence in them?
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age. Another baseless claim. Can you demonstrate that Bwahahahahahaha is even an educator? Of course not.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense."
We can't know God in terms of His core essence, that will never be known.
But the other things of God like His names and attributes can be known. And we discover those every day with human beings.
What "names and attributes"? You dodge those every time.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
It is the combination of the divine teachings and the life of the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations that prove the existence of God.
Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that.
The Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations can manifest the names and attributes of God to the physical world at the highest level "perfectly."
So the thing is, if you "really" want to know God, the "absolute" best way to do that is to know the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations. Bull. All of your claimed prophets are immoral. How do we know this? Because morality depends on no god at all.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age. So some bloke in pretty robes said so? I think not.
Frankly, all you have is unevidenced claims. Rock on back when you have anything remotely approximating actual evidence. Right now all you have is "some bloke said so" and that is it. Nothing more.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense."
We can't know God in terms of His core essence, that will never be known. But the other things of God like His names and attributes can be known. And we discover those every day with human beings. Horseshit. Obvious horseshit.
Want to know why? Of course you don't
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: The human reality just means the spiritual reality of the human being, not physical. The spiritual reality of the human being are things like the divine qualities that we display and manifest to the physical world. Define what "spiritual" means, then demonstrate it to exist. You will refuse to do so because you cannot.
Spiritual is a shibboleth that you attempt to foist upon all and sundry. You are making it all up out of whole cloth.
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RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 10, 2020 at 3:57 pm
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(March 10, 2020 at 3:20 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: (March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
Sure. How do they? You think you have answered that, but have you? Lets find out.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: It is the combination of the divine teachings and the life of the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations that prove the existence of God. What divine teachings? Whose divine teachings? Every single one of them so far is immoral. Mo was a blatant warlord, jebus was jewish end times proponent, and so on. not a single one of them got anything right. So where exactly are these magic prophets that somehow know the mind of god?
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that. That is a direct claim. Provide evidence for that claim. You will not because you cannot and you know it.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: The Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations can manifest the names and attributes of God to the physical world at the highest level "perfectly." Another claim. Was jebus manifesting god when he never condemned slavery? Was mo manifesting god when he engaged in paedophilia?
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: So the thing is, if you "really" want to know God, the "absolute" best way to do that is to know the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations. All of them are obvious cunts of the highest order. Why would anyone put any credence in them?
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age. Another baseless claim. Can you demonstrate that Bwahahahahahaha is even an educator? Of course not.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense."
We can't know God in terms of His core essence, that will never be known.
But the other things of God like His names and attributes can be known. And we discover those every day with human beings.
What "names and attributes"? You dodge those every time.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: How do divine teachings prove the existence of god?
It is the combination of the divine teachings and the life of the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations that prove the existence of God.
Even though the common human being can display all of the names and attributes of God at the highest level, there is a level beyond that.
The Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations can manifest the names and attributes of God to the physical world at the highest level "perfectly."
So the thing is, if you "really" want to know God, the "absolute" best way to do that is to know the Prophets / Messengers / Manifestations. Bull. All of your claimed prophets are immoral. How do we know this? Because morality depends on no god at all.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "How do you know that god "is beyond the physical universe and beyond anything that we know"
We know that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah. He is the current divine educator of God for this time and age. So some bloke in pretty robes said so? I think not.
Frankly, all you have is unevidenced claims. Rock on back when you have anything remotely approximating actual evidence. Right now all you have is "some bloke said so" and that is it. Nothing more.
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "Also, you just said that we can discover god every day through humans, but now you're saying we can never fully know god... Which one is it? What is the difference between discovering and knowing god? You're not making any sense."
We can't know God in terms of His core essence, that will never be known. But the other things of God like His names and attributes can be known. And we discover those every day with human beings. Horseshit. Obvious horseshit.
Want to know why? Of course you don't
(March 10, 2020 at 1:17 pm)unityconversation Wrote: The human reality just means the spiritual reality of the human being, not physical. The spiritual reality of the human being are things like the divine qualities that we display and manifest to the physical world. Define what "spiritual" means, then demonstrate it to exist. You will refuse to do so because you cannot.
Spiritual is a shibboleth that you attempt to foist upon all and sundry. You are making it all up out of whole cloth.
Hey Abaddon_ire could you do me a favor?
Post your replies again but in a new separate post.
The format of the forum is starting to get a little confusing.
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