On 25 Apr, 16:38, [email protected] wrote: > God may or may not be conscious. Some of us are conscious and we would like > to think that someone consciously designed us rather than to imagine we may > be designed by convergence not by conscious creation. If however, However if > indeed God is conscious - as some of us are conscious - then we are able to > make choices. The choices we cannot avoid making are those choices that have > to do with the necessity of solving problems of daily living. The best > choices are those that are derived from making informed decisions. Informed > decisions are derived from applying critical thinking which also include > contributions of the heart, and soul. >
A God that is not conscious could not be omniscient. A God that is omniscient is not conscious in the same way that we are, as we are not omniscient. God cannot tire, as He is Omnipotent, therefore, He requires no rest, again, unlike our form of consciousness that requires rest. Whilst there are similarities, there are vast differences. Likeness is not equality, therefore, when it is said we are created in His likeness, do not expect that our existence is, in any way, equal to His. Rather, our existence is 'like' His in certain respects, but completely unlike in others. A careful consideration of the three qualities of omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence (both transcendant and immanent) are required to make a proper analysis. The choices that we cannot avoid making are those that are events that are extant in the space-time continuum, all others simply will nor occur and you will never experience them. If you experience something, then you know that it was always a part of the continuum and you know (albeit after the fact!!) that it was necessary. > The capability and the ability to make informed decisions also implies the > right and I think the responsibility of every person to dissent from those > opinions which are deemed ill informed. This means that whatever we call God > is not the final authority with respect to what is ultimately considered to > be in each persons best interest. > Rather, God is the final authority irrespective of our views OF said deity, by the necessity of the defining quality of omnipotence. Otherwise, you must assume that you have some authority that God does not and THAT is incompatible with omnipotence. > The long winded point I am trying to make is that with respect to whatever > data is singled out - i.e. God, unity - consciousness - each person brings > something of himself (consciously or unconsciously) in interpreting what > those concepts means to him or her. Thus each person ultimately is his own > final authority. Thank God. > Nicely put, yet you will answer to an omnipotent entity--if, of course, said entity exists. But, its existence is NOT dependent upon our views, as our data is greatly lacking and His, of course, due to His omniscience, is full and complete down to the quantum state of the entire continuum. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pol.science kid <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, Apr 25, 2010 9:37 am > Subject: Re: [Mind's Eye] Re: God and I > > but they cannot survive in isolation can they... > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:12 AM, RP <[email protected]> wrote: > > Energy leads to action, God to consciousness. One is effort, the other > is knowledge. Body without consciousness is mud, Life without spirit > is incomprehensible. > > On Apr 24, 8:15 am, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote: > > God is neither he nor she..pure energy thats all..and that is wat > > flows through every one of us..and will flow after our time is > > done..we are it.. it is us... > > > On Apr 21, 9:23 am, RP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > God is pure consciousness, formless, unborn, eternal, indestructible > > > and the source, the spirit and the end of all. We are conscious, have > > > a form, are born, live and die. Our only solace is that we arise from > > > him, are upheld by him and go back to him. 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