Who or What is God? Is God a person? Does God have person hood? Is God Power, as in energy? Is God Something? Some say God is Nothing. Generally speaking, 'something' is what we experience, consequently, 'nothing' is that which lies beyond our own experience. So, if God lies beyond our own experience, is God Nothing?...then, in a sense, that Nothing would be Something but outside our comprehension. From this we could say that 'something' is subjective and is in some way under our effect and influence, if only through our thoughts, consequently, our dreams and desires. What about our ability to Choose?
We created and create God because we cannot deal with the fact that there may be Reality beyond that which we can grasp, beyond that which we can dream, beyond that which we can desire, in other words, totally beyond our influence and our effect. But who, possibly, could allow for the thought or even deal with the thought that there is Existence beyond our created scope of awareness, beyond the possibilities and scope of our consciousness!? If we in any way control or effect God, we have created God, for God exists within our creative parameters which is made up of our dreams, desires.... our thoughts. We created God that we could comprehend and then conquer and defeat our fears. We created God out of our fear of the unknown, the unknown of ourselves and all we are capable of, for we do have the power of our own destruction. We created God out of fear of the unknown, that totally unknown and noncomprehendable Reality, the source of our desire to image. At the beginning of intelligent history there were forces within our own creation that threatened us. It becomes our story, the story of humanity of how we conquer that which we fear. Is this our reason for existence? Of so....wow! Our most sophisticated technologies are still trying to conquer these fears. The ultimate goal of science, technology, and even religion is to conquer the ultimate fear, that of extinction. We can expect that science will create human life in a test tube, thereby conquering death, and well may have already done so. Out of fear we learned to appease that which was frightening to us. We needed to control the unknown which began our relationship with God. The fear of created nature became personified and evolved from god/gods to God. God needed to be controlled that we would not be extinguished but also because we need God's power to control and eliminate others.
How do we control God? The ways are numerous. We take control of God by claiming God, by possessing God, by giving God a name, by acting in the name of our God's to justify killing and fighting wars, while claiming God to be a God of Love. We control God by creating histories and telling of our God's deeds. We control God within our created walls, whether of world and galaxy or wood and precious metals.
Yes, God exists because that is what we experience through our powers of creation.
We create God out of all we worship. Have we ever considered that we may not be aware of all that exists, especially that which lies outside our dreams, desires and then, finally, our choice for Reality or non-reality?
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