our persons may not be truly separate, but they are distinct.
We're One, but were not the same -- Bono.
Yes, I agree. Both true, just different scopes of the same truth.
surely you can also afford it to the source of all things
But that is what I'm saying. NOTHING can be separate from Source. But, the Source is the Source of Everything. We are all Children of God (Source).
The Source is not "individual" because the Source itself is equally the Source of All Things. Nothing is "less" Source, or "more" Source. It's just Source. How could it be any different?
I think there are plenty of Derivatives of Source. I think you are mistakenly confusing certain powerful derivatives (Children) as Source itself. I think certain such derivatives have purposefully set up the situation so that we would mistake them as Source, pretenders to the throne.
Have you actually read the things that YWHW condones and encourages (murder, genocide, incest, child sacrifice, slavery, etc., etc.)? He created all the people, why does he have a chosen race? Why is he a "he" at all? He created all the earth, why does he have a "promised land?" Why does the Bible itself say that he is a Son of El, the "Most High" (Deut 32:8)? It actually says that in numerous places in the Bible, although only in that one rewritten section is it so overt. Why was that rewritten in the 400(ish) AD version of the Bible? Why was that rewritten in the Masoretic Texts? In other words, why did both the Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible agree on their revision, done centuries after the death of Jesus. Why was owning all older versions of those texts punishable by death? Why did the Jewish and Christian versions agree?!?
Who was really behind the revision? What economic and political influences did the Jews have in the Constantine Court? (Dig into it.)
There is so much to find, so many questions that need to be looked into.
The Source of All Things is in all of us. We are all Derivatives from Source (Children of God). I suggest what you call "God" has an awful lot of evidence to suggest that he is himself derivative. I think that an application of a modicum of logical thinking produces the same conclusion.
I suggest that "God" may not be what you think he is.
here is another angle that helped me.
you talk like a seeker. so perhaps you know that everything you experience is a reflection of yourself.
I reflect some part of your being back to you, just as you refect some part of my being back to me, and all is one.
i know this is true. and yet, even though i know you are a reflection of me, i also recognize and respect that you have your own personhood.
our persons may not be truly separate, but they are distinct.
if you can afford that recognition to this humble reflection, surely you can also afford it to the source of all things.
We're One, but were not the same -- Bono.
Yes, I agree. Both true, just different scopes of the same truth.
But that is what I'm saying. NOTHING can be separate from Source. But, the Source is the Source of Everything. We are all Children of God (Source).
The Source is not "individual" because the Source itself is equally the Source of All Things. Nothing is "less" Source, or "more" Source. It's just Source. How could it be any different?
I think there are plenty of Derivatives of Source. I think you are mistakenly confusing certain powerful derivatives (Children) as Source itself. I think certain such derivatives have purposefully set up the situation so that we would mistake them as Source, pretenders to the throne.
Have you actually read the things that YWHW condones and encourages (murder, genocide, incest, child sacrifice, slavery, etc., etc.)? He created all the people, why does he have a chosen race? Why is he a "he" at all? He created all the earth, why does he have a "promised land?" Why does the Bible itself say that he is a Son of El, the "Most High" (Deut 32:8)? It actually says that in numerous places in the Bible, although only in that one rewritten section is it so overt. Why was that rewritten in the 400(ish) AD version of the Bible? Why was that rewritten in the Masoretic Texts? In other words, why did both the Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible agree on their revision, done centuries after the death of Jesus. Why was owning all older versions of those texts punishable by death? Why did the Jewish and Christian versions agree?!?
Who was really behind the revision? What economic and political influences did the Jews have in the Constantine Court? (Dig into it.)
There is so much to find, so many questions that need to be looked into.
The Source of All Things is in all of us. We are all Derivatives from Source (Children of God). I suggest what you call "God" has an awful lot of evidence to suggest that he is himself derivative. I think that an application of a modicum of logical thinking produces the same conclusion.
I suggest that "God" may not be what you think he is.
lol goodnight fren. we'll talk more.
remember, knock and the door is opened. if you can pray to Him with sincerity, humility, and gratitude, you can ask for answers and receive them.
Everything in the Bible still applies today. If you do it, and do it right, it will prove itself.