Knowing our inabilities, we long for Perfection. Longing for Perfection, we dream, we desire, we choose.... to create Perfection. Perfection is the result of our dreams, our desires , and finally our choice, for the function of Intelligence is choosing. Intelligence chooses. From how we perceive ourselves, others, and our surroundings, we create those qualities we feel will bring us to the desired Perfection. We create the qualities we wish to become. We find that we are weak. We desire power, so we image our dream of what all-powerful would be. Our God is all-powerful. We struggle with ignorance. We dream of what all-knowing would be. Our God is all-knowing. We dream of being accepted and loved. We find that we are destructive and mean-spirited, so we dream of being loved and all-loving. Our God is described as all-loving. Power is what we create power to be as we create knowing and loving and all the other characteristics we use to create our God. God is not what God is but what we need God to be. We create what we would become. We desire to be Perfect because we see our God as Perfection. We observe the God of others and deem that God, to be other than who we are and, consequently, other than our God. Our God becomes The God, become God the Perfect God. Any other God is a false God and becomes our enemy to be defeated by our God of Perfection, for there can only be One God and that God is my God.
God is the model for Perfection, but the model for Perfection as I see it. As we determine Perfection we create the attributes of God. Throughout history, each people create God as representative of themselves. Then they become representative of their God, as in attempting to cover up a great deceit. Is it not deceitful to play a game of attempting to be what one is not? Is it not deceitful to design and define characteristics of a determined God that one can claim as one's own?
God holds the qualities most desired by humanity. God is my God. God is our God. No matter what is said, God does not belong to the masses, however God wants the masses to belong to himself and is so led to declaring and calling a war in that God's own name. It would then be, of course, a holy war. My God works for me and, then, I work for my God. It would be very difficult to work for someone else's God. It would be as difficult as cheering for a team that is not the team that one supports and backs, and identifies with. Now the individual identity of self and the identity of God as separate from self becomes muddled. The lines become blurred. Where does self leave off and God begin. Where does one's identity become the identity of God?
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