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originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
How can a person know God?
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: DayAfterTomorrow
The problem with anything that comes from the Bible is that no testable claim in the Bible has ever been proven by science.
So would the passages you highlighted be the only thing it got right??
Or was it never actually an accurate account of the universe's beginnings??
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: DayAfterTomorrow
The problem with anything that comes from the Bible is that no testable claim in the Bible has ever been proven by science.
So would the passages you highlighted be the only thing it got right??
Or was it never actually an accurate account of the universe's beginnings??
I would disagree with your premise. I can show you how John 1 is the Word, while Aleph Bet is the word Father in Hebrew. This is clearly a reference to DNA for more than the reasons I just stated. It goes into the depth of the Hebrew on all levels of the tree of knowledge (word). TAO is the naming (predication) of our predicatory mind. Naming things is the essence of the Speaker (TAO) of the Tao Te Ching. Not only does the Bible confirm all physics, it is superior as a narrative to theory, far more than science has ever provided. This is the problem with the predicatory mind. It is preaching with no real knowledge.
As you note, this is not evidence for God, but really good evidence for design by a higher intelligence. God goes beyond the idea of a mere smart relative, even if that relative is immortal. God is not relative to his creation, but creation relative to him. It's important to know that absolute cannot have a relative. I find my faith and hope grounded in this highest truth of Love, or the very foundation for creation.
As I stated in the second post to this thread, I cannot confirm nor deny. Until I know (by I, I mean us all), then I as a relative can only wait for all of us to wake up and see together. Faithfulness is a dependent relationship, which implies we are all dependent on one thing--Love. I would have it no other way. No other abstract concept compares.
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
The higher I climb on this tree called thought, the more I see that truth is simple.
Your taking a modern view of the world and finding a way to make the scripture fit within.. not using the scripture to make scientific theories make sense..
Consider all the teachers and gods that have spoken are indeed the problem...trying to recreate that which insists on remaining separate...
Truth is not found in duality...never will be..this is obvious...so why strive to stay in chains while claiming they are needed?
Truth is ALL inclusive!
As in "I Am that I Am!", "Truth Is that Truth Is!"
Tain't nothin' but! *__-
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
a reply to: dfnj2015
As a practical thought, you are correct in this. Negating God as a named thing is the very premise of the thread. Other than the highest Arete and Good we can name by the word Love, there is no other name we can find as high. God is beyond this to be sure. It is, however, the best place to start if God can be found beyond words, relatives and names. Would you agree?
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
a reply to: JoshuaCox
Your taking a modern view of the world and finding a way to make the scripture fit within.. not using the scripture to make scientific theories make sense..
There would be no need to use relative facts to demonstrate an accurate image of God. This is the premise of the thread, as well as the only position we can take on the subject--neutral / positive. The fundamental physics of the strong force in nature is our starting point for any realization about physics. Christ stated a neutral (do not judge) and positive (only love) attitude. Electrons are the weak force in nature necessary for breaking symmetry, or what you might consider individuation of parts into relative. From a purely physics point of view, the only way to create humanity from primordial chaos is in the presence of light. Light is not unintelligent, nor unintelligible.
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
What was the primary concern of Christ? Ending entropy (death),
but not until the fullness of creation manifests the individuals to God's absolute original.
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
What was the primary concern of Christ? Ending entropy (death),
I do not see that at all.
'Christ' is unconditional Love, which was the teaching of the Jesus.
The state of unconditional Love/Enlightenment/Nirvana transcends the 'conditional ego/thoughts' in which 'death' and 'life' conditionally are found.
That 'death' is transcended is incidental. There are many conditional things that are transcended in such an unconditional state; 'time/space', 'life/death', all 'duality'.
but not until the fullness of creation manifests the individuals to God's absolute original.
'Creation' is scientifically and philosophically impossible.
Two, the moment that one becomes unconditional Love ('accepts Christ', experientially) is the moment that We enter into our Universal Self/God/Heaven, Nirvana!
There is no 'not until' anything!
The only that stands in the way is us;
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi
tat tvam asi (en.wikipedia.org...)
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: DayAfterTomorrow
What was the primary concern of Christ? Ending entropy (death),
I do not see that at all.
'Christ' is unconditional Love, which was the teaching of the Jesus.
The state of unconditional Love/Enlightenment/Nirvana transcends the 'conditional ego/thoughts' in which 'death' and 'life' conditionally are found.
That 'death' is transcended is incidental. There are many conditional things that are transcended in such an unconditional state; 'time/space', 'life/death', all 'duality'.
but not until the fullness of creation manifests the individuals to God's absolute original.
'Creation' is scientifically and philosophically impossible.
Two, the moment that one becomes unconditional Love ('accepts Christ', experientially) is the moment that We enter into our Universal Self/God/Heaven, Nirvana!
There is no 'not until' anything!
The only that stands in the way is us;
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi
tat tvam asi (en.wikipedia.org...)
1 Corinthians 15
24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.