Meanings of “God” in some scriptures

[jimhabegger]

We’ll find that the space carved out to give this "god" whatever credence will have been wasted...because he believes in the things well beyond the veil of that space, a space which is inherently suspect to begin with, and self identifies as such.

I had trouble following that the first time through, but on the third or fourth reading I struck it rich. Yes, this conversation might turn out to be a waste of time for anyone but me, apart from any satisfaction you might get from helping me learn whatever I might learn from it. I see it doing me a world of good, and I still see more possibilities in it, but that might not be any reason for anyone else to be part of it. All the other implications in what you said might be true also. I’ll have more to say later about what’s already been posted.

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What communicative purpose does the term hold, then?

I see one objection to what I’m doing as a suspicion that using the g word can’t serve any beneficial purpose that can’t be better served some other way. I’ll come back to that later. I see a question I want to ask now. I study Christian and Baha’i scriptures to help me learn to do what I want to do for myself and for the world. Suddenly the way I use the g word seems to me to fade into insignificance beside that. We can still discuss that question if anyone wants to, but I have a question now that might be more important than that: What concerns you might have about what I’m doing, and whether there’s any possibility of relieving those concerns, without giving up my study of those scriptures. For example, does it seem inevitable to you that studying those scriptures will influence me in ways that that are harmful to me and to society? If so, then I might like to try telling you more about how I use those scriptures, to see if that does anything to relieve those concerns. That’s just an example. I don’t see clearly where the conversation might go, but where I’d like to start is with what concerns you might have about a person studying some religious scriptures as one way among others of learning to live a better life.