[QUOTE="MystikFollower"][QUOTE="Assassin1349"]Why does it have to be an unconditionally loving being? What's wrong with indifference? Assassin1349
Because the natural state of the Universe, of God, of life itself, is pure love. Not love in the way Humans have made it throughout History. We've reduced the word Love to something almost completely meaningless. Absolute being though is what many religions and eastern beliefs believe to be the unmanifested absolute joy, peace, and love that comes through enlightenment. Very few people have achieved this enlightenment throughout history, but many have experienced moments of absolute peace or joy or love. It usually comes when you've managed to completely stop the incessant thinking of the mind (which is a dangerous disease that afflicts all of us) and just Be. It's taking me many many hours of deep meditation to experience what those spiritual teachings talk about for even a few moments, but I have managed to experience it twice now. It's a truly indescribable experience and only strengthened my resolve in connecting to that inner being as much as I can.
I don't believe God is indifferent to his creation, cause if there's indifference why create it in the first place? Here's exactly what I believe based on what I've learned from the Bible, many other teachings, and my own meditation and prayer.
I think before the Universe was created, Being (God, pure consciousness, whatever you want to call it) was all there was. This is indescribable really to human comprehension, but this Being was absolute knowing and eternal love (the purest energy form of life I believe). Since God was all there was, and nothing existed that was apart or not God, so pure consciousness could only know itself conceptually... Not experientially. I believe that God wanted to experience the various aspects of his divinity, but since there was nothing else he could only know it. If there was only cold water, how would you ever know hot? If there was no up, down would be meaningless. So I believe in his desire to experience the aspects of life and God, he created the illusion of separation between himself and himself, and created many individuations of his own consciousness that has come into the realm of relativity to be able to look back and experience the many different aspects of God.
Right now, I believe consciousness is evolving all throughout the cosmos in endlessly different forms and levels. We are one of the species that has come to a point of conscious evolution that we can now ponder our own existence and the very meaning of the vast cosmos that gave birth to the very molecules and atoms that make us up now. Unfortunately, we need to make the next conscious leap before our society's mind-dominated people destroy ourselves.
That's great and all but you basically answered my question with "because". :lol: Trust me I know anything I can say here will fall on deaf ears. I'm not trying to debate or change your mind, I'm just telling you what I believe based on my studying and personal experience. The wonderful thing about free will is that you are absolutely free to believe what you choose, and that's wonderful you've found something that you can get behind and believe fully :). There is no wrong path that wont lead where were all leading, and one day you'll realize just how unimportant this existence is compared to actual Being. All the money, houses, cars, cell phones, and social statuses wont mean anything one day. I've found my faith and I think it's great for anyone to find what they believe in, even if it's not God. This thread will go nowhere though and I've made my points so have a great day. :)
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