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Quote by: SoccerfreakAB2 I understand but what is the difference between your position and that of an atheist? You both agree nature (=God to you) rules the universe. |
I guess the difference would be I leave room for the possibility of a caring God or a realm of existence that is beyond what we expreince. I do not believe matter is the end all. I do not believe reality is completely defined by matter, because there is also spirit. Now the nature of this spirit can surely be debated. If there is a God aspect to spirit can be debated. I think perhaps my mind asks questions that others think their belief answers? So I live with questions instead of answers.
I like the Hindu concept of our sense of reality being the dream of the great dreamer. All that is, is a cycle and one of the cycles is the dreamer waking up. Then only the dreamer exist. When the dreamer returns to sleep, the reality we experience begins all over again. There is the Mayan galactic calender and the astrological New Age, which both coincide. I think there are still many mysteries for us to solve. That the bible would prophecy the last days, is no big deal to me. So did the Mayans and astrologist. And the biblical predictions are only logical any way. However, possibly logic with a better understanding of our planet than we expected the ancients to have.
Orignially the in the end everything was to be consumed by fire. That fire is the fire of life.
Obviously as life increases on the planet, there comes a time when there is more life than what is left to be consumed. Throw away all the predictions if you like, and just look at the geological and biological information. We are at the point where within years, there will be more life than the planet can support. What if the Hindu dreamer is also the biblical God making the earth anew? Whatever, our understanding of God, it must, absolutely must be, an understanding of nature because that is God. It is what know of the universe and unversal laws that will be the reality we manifest. We are God's consciousness.