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Topic: What is God?
Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 03/19/11 04:07 PM
This is from the Urantia book: God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality.

n3rdy Joined Tue 12/07/10 Posts: 47	Sat 03/19/11 04:21 PM
This is from the Urantia book: God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality. God is your feeling... is your spirit, is all who're inside of you... God is your mind is your answers when you talk with a calm air. God is a truth, is your dad is your friend... God is all where you can feeling good and have good energies to be continue your life believe, God... is a big energy. And we can feel do that

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 03/19/11 04:29 PM
"There sojourns within each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of divinity. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you survive the mortal existence. The Urantia book

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sat 03/19/11 04:56 PM
God is nature God is love God is water God is light I don't think we can really define God, it's so much bigger than anything we can comprehend.

Abracadabra Joined Thu 04/12/07 Posts: 17851	Sat 03/19/11 05:30 PM
The following also comes from the Urantia book: (60.3) 4:5.4 The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath. (60.4) 4:5.5 The Hebrews believed that “without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin.” They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals. (60.5) 4:5.6 The bestowal of a Paradise Son on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a travesty upon the infinite character of God! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary! (60.6) 4:5.7 But the inhabitants of Urantia are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God. Personally I prefer my conclusion that Jesus was just a misunderstood Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva. Even this Urantia book is trying to make a case that Jesus was some sort of a "Divinely begotten Son" who was sent by a fatherly-figure God. They just renounce the "blood sacrifice" ideas of Christianity in a totally different way. They clearly even recognize the virgin birth when they say that this Creator Son was both the Son of Man and the Son of God. So as far as I can see they are just attempting to renounce orthodox Christians views whilst attempting to retain all of the verbatim superstitions in the bible (save for blood sacrifices evidently) My conclusion that Jesus was a Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva doesn't require that Jesus was born of a virgin, rose from the dead, or anything like that. I don't need to support those superstitions because once Jesus is recognized to have been a Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva, then there's no longer any need to view the New Testament as some sort of "infallible" word of God. In other words, once we recognize that Jesus was just a mortal man like every one else, then we also recognize that the New Testament was just the rumors of mortal men, just like many other rumors. So there's no longer any need to explain all of its verbatim details and claims. Just chalk them up to either superstitions, confusion, or outright propaganda in an attempt to re-establish the original religion using Jesus as "The Christ". (which truly doesn't fit anyway)

Kleisto Joined Tue 05/13/08 Posts: 5704	Sat 03/19/11 05:39 PM
God is all encompassing, everywhere in everything, and available to everyone all the time. God is non judgmental, never angry or jealous. He is non vengeful and does not damn or condemn. God is love, pure, unconditional, no strings attached love.

Abracadabra Joined Thu 04/12/07 Posts: 17851	Sat 03/19/11 05:50 PM
God is all encompassing, everywhere in everything, and available to everyone all the time. God is non judgmental, never angry or jealous. He is non vengeful and does not damn or condemn. God is love, pure, unconditional, no strings attached love. I like your portrait of God. Very nice indeed. And I'm sure She does too! Sorry for the feminine reference, but I've recently come to like the idea of viewing God as a She. Although, I'm sure that God is ultimately spirit and a concept of gender doesn't truly apply.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sat 03/19/11 05:52 PM
I don't think God has a gender, there's both femminine and masucline aspect of God.

Kleisto Joined Tue 05/13/08 Posts: 5704	Sat 03/19/11 05:57 PM
I don't think God has a gender, there's both femminine and masucline aspect of God. God is and can be however you wish to paint It. There's only one, so no matter whether you call God a He, a She, name it Buddha, Jesus or anything else, they all lead back to the same God.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sat 03/19/11 06:01 PM
To me, saying they all lead to the same would kinda be like saying all people lead to the same person.

Kleisto Joined Tue 05/13/08 Posts: 5704	Sat 03/19/11 06:06 PM
To me, saying they all lead to the same would kinda be like saying all people lead to the same person. The difference though is, everyone here is made different and we can't be everywhere at one time. But God is separate from us you know? And if He/She/It can be in all places, what other path can one be led to?

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 03/19/11 07:02 PM
The divine presence cannot, however, be discovered anywhere in nature or even in the lives of God-knowing mortals so fully and so certainly as in your attempted communion with the indwelling Mystery Monitor, the Paradise Thought Adjuster. What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind! ~~Urantia book

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Sat 03/19/11 07:20 PM
as Jennifer Hudson so eloquently and simply stated it the other night God is my blessing,,,

ShiningArmour Joined Sat 08/23/08 Posts: 541	Sun 03/20/11 05:40 AM Edited by ShiningArmour on Sun 03/20/11 05:51 AM


ShiningArmour Joined Sat 08/23/08 Posts: 541	Sun 03/20/11 05:49 AM Edited by ShiningArmour on Sun 03/20/11 05:50 AM
I would answer the question "Who is God" but I want to avoid the attacks.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sun 03/20/11 08:03 AM
I would answer the question "Who is God" but I want to avoid the attacks. Okay WHO IS GOD? NO ATTACKS ALLOWED.

ShiningArmour Joined Sat 08/23/08 Posts: 541	Sun 03/20/11 08:19 AM
I would answer the question "Who is God" but I want to avoid the attacks. Okay WHO IS GOD? NO ATTACKS ALLOWED. Yea right! You may not attack, but everyone else would!

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sun 03/20/11 08:50 AM
I would answer the question "Who is God" but I want to avoid the attacks. Okay WHO IS GOD? NO ATTACKS ALLOWED. Yea right! You may not attack, but everyone else would! You just don't know who God is.

ShiningArmour Joined Sat 08/23/08 Posts: 541	Sun 03/20/11 12:03 PM
I would answer the question "Who is God" but I want to avoid the attacks. Okay WHO IS GOD? NO ATTACKS ALLOWED. Yea right! You may not attack, but everyone else would! You just don't know who God is. No I do. I simply choose not to cast my pearls before swine

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sun 03/20/11 01:01 PM
No I do. I simply choose not to cast my pearls before swine Now that is a perfect example of how Christians think they know everything and they think they own a monopoly on God. Plus its just rude.