(September 10, 2016 at 7:31 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(September 10, 2016 at 5:29 pm)Whateverist Wrote: But there are a few view points I share with theists without paying the toll in cognitive dissonance they do. Like theists, I believe there is more wisdom available than is at my disposal. But no external genie is needed for that. Look for it instead in the depths of who you are beyond your conscious mind. All manner of insight and inspiration can be found therein. So where they pray for a gift from without, I simply tap the source we all have on board. It is still a gift which can be revoked at any time, so some reverence for the source is warranted. So humility too is available without the contrast to an omni-anything being.Careful...you're entering dangerous "the kingdom of heaven is within you" territory.
Assuming we are speaking allegorically .. where else would/could it be? The mistake is to think 'God' created the cosmos. Obviously false. He also didn't create me or any other physical thing. But, if you are looking for a place to tuck God in, where better than your own little brain?
All the talk in Genesis of separating up from down and dark from light and so on is best understood as the eve-devo development of our own consciousness. 'God' got me squared away in the womb and built the world as it exists in my mind. 'He' also created 'me' - as in whatever it is that makes me distinctive as an individual. Since 'God' didn't actually create even one physical thing, there need be no gotcha moment regarding creating trees before the sun. The world as it exists in my comprehension isn't subject to those kinds of causal connections. It can be put together in whatever order and manner that is necessary.
Still, there is plenty of reason to suspect there is knowledge and wisdom within which you can only sometimes tap. The conscious mind is a tool created to serve the total self. Drive it into a ditch and you can be grounded .. from within. 'God' exists if you want to call it that - but I don't.