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Your personal views on the nature of God, and how you experience God

I understand that the majority of the members who post in this section are Christian, but this is not limited to any specific religion. All opinions are welcome. That said, I would like to read your opinions on what you personally feel is the nature of God, and in what way you experience the presence of God.

The question is out of genuine curiosity, and I hope everyone will be respectful of other members thoughts on the subject.
God tells me to worry about myself before I worry about others, and certainly before I worry about Him. As a result, I don't concern myself with the nature of God.
 
I believe in God, but I don't for a minute believe in those here on earth who claim to be God's messengers among us. I choose to live my life as I believe God would want me to and a best I can, period.
 
I understand that the majority of the members who post in this section are Christian, but this is not limited to any specific religion. All opinions are welcome. That said, I would like to read your opinions on what you personally feel is the nature of God, and in what way you experience the presence of God.

The question is out of genuine curiosity, and I hope everyone will be respectful of other members thoughts on the subject.

The nature of god is imagination, and it is experienced any way an individual wishes to dream up experiencing it.
 
He is a white racist who enjoys hunting down young black men.

My Theology Professor said so.
 
Erring on the side of caution, I'd suggest that however we extrapolate from manifestation, any one baseline will be as conclusive as another. God is ineffable. Whatever the scope of perception, it falls short of personal adequacy (which might be the point). Or it doesn't and we're blind to the completion. I suspect the latter. That 'grain of sand' as it were. Whether the uncertainty of faith is symptom or objective, I don't pretend to know. I lack the intellect; though I've wisdom enough to see how contradiction is ignorance. In that light, whatever exists as any union of opposites is very likely absorption. Denied that advancement, I must paint this tapestry in shades only of grey.

It is not the part of our species to rest on our laurels, as He intends. All is as God wills it. The 'nature' of God is our arrogance and our presumption. This is my understanding, deeply flawed though it be.
 
The Atheists tell me He is an 'alien in the sky'.

They believe I'm the one being mocked.

lulz
 
I don't think the concept of the divine has a simple definition. There are people for whom deities really are nothing more than imaginary friends in the sky. There are people for whom God is the name of profound feelings they cannot find expression for. These are the two ways I have 'experienced' God, which is why I am sympathetic to both atheists and theists.
 
My general feeling is there is a divine energy, something beyond the natural, that permeates our world. I believe at times humans, with our slighterly higher consiousness, at times can feel that energy touching our lives. As is the case with Humans throughout the milenia, when we can't understand what we are feeling we create stories for it. I believe that the majority of your various religions were largely spurred forth by individuals who felt a connection with the Divine and attempted to use their mortal mind to understand and explain the immortal. This, mixed with the natural instincts and desire of man, formed the foundation of belief structures.
 
Man created god in his own image.
The very idea of supernatural beings is superstitious drivel perpetuated by weak minded, ignorant and frightened people.
 
Man created god in his own image.
The very idea of supernatural beings is superstitious drivel perpetuated by weak minded, ignorant and frightened people.
History is replete with them, and they have largely directed the course of human kind at various intervals.
 
I don't believe in a god that has a figure like a person. I believe that the force that started the universe is spread all around the universe, and that the human spirit is somehow connected through all human beings. How? I don't know. I'm not even sure these beliefs make sense, but I usually do not concern myself with religion. I try to live as if this is my only life while hoping that there is something after.
 
Man created god in his own image.
The very idea of supernatural beings is superstitious drivel perpetuated by weak minded, ignorant and frightened people.

History is replete with them, and they have largely directed the course of human kind at various intervals.
You're a little late to the party, boys. These trolls are about as passe as it gets.
 
You're a little late to the party, boys. These trolls are about as passe as it gets.
Hmmm. If you say so. Excuse me if I don't buy into the trolls business. And the "passe" business. In my view, only fashion is passe. And certain scientific pronouncements solemnly given.
 
People experience God even in the trivialities of daily life - some just don't see or realize it.

My most recent experience happened last Thursday. That morning before going to work, I read about Jacob (Genesis), when he was reassured by God to not be afraid to move to Egypt. God said He'll be with him, and He'll even raise him up again.

So I asked God, if He "can please raise me up a bit, income-wise. IF, it is within His will."

That same day, near the end of my work, as I was getting ready to leave, my employer surprised me: We'd decided to give you a raise! It was a generous raise, too.

"Raise." The word-play isn't lost to me. My Father has a sense of humor.
I thank God.
 
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Creator of us and all that exists. Wanted to have a race of beings who love him and want him in their lives not because they are simply intelligent organic robots who have no other choice, but because they have a choice and still choose him. Allows us to go through this life with all of its temporary struggles and hardships to allow those who do choose him to have something to compare the next life to so we'll have an idea of just how good we've got it when we eventually get there. Otherwise we would think enternal bliss, streets paved with gold, buildings made out of precious stones and no more suffering is no big deal. Plus the fact they we deserve far worse than what we have now, not to mention the future yet God allowed his innocent son to take our punishement for us is something I personally believe was planned so that we'll have totally appreciation and gratitude for him in enternity.

I beleive all of what God has provided for us is obtained by faith, which is to say beileiving the one who loves you told you the truth. I think God set it up that way for a coule of reasons. 1. I think there is a type of power that operates in a realm we connot see when faith is in operation. I haven't verified this but I heard once there was some type of research being done on subatomic particles. It was set up in a way where cameras were recording the project and the researcher accidentally left the recording rolling. When they weren't in active research the subatomic particles were dormant however once the researchers returned and began looking for activity, the particles began to activate in some way. They could see in the recording and its timeline that when researchers were not looking for activity, nothing significant happened but once they began to look for activity to their surprise activity started happening at a level not normally visible. 2. I think God, in his mercy knows some people will never want or love him. However, the demands of justice require him to assess appropriate consequences for the bad things they've done in this life for which they refused his offer of forgiveness. Under a system of faith where the whole reality of everything is not apparent to everyone, God can to some extent be more lenient to those who refuse his forgiveness under an argument that they didn't know or understand while the demands of justice are still met.

The primary thing that initially caused me to have faith was in reading the bible as a teenager, I would see predictions in the Old Testament that came true in the New Testament. Psalm 22. Which was a prediction forecasting the crucifixion of Jesus 1500 years in advance was the first one I think I noticed. It was written by (actually through) King David discussing a personal experience of torture that he never personally went through that later turned out to be descriptive of the crucifixion of Jesus. Then I started seeing other predictions throughout the Old Testament that later were fulfilled. Since then I've also seen God answer some of my prayers in dramatic ways right in front of my face. There's no way anybody can convince me God is a figment of people's imagination or that the bible is a made up collection of fables.

I used to believe God was mean and angry but lately I think I've come to realize he's not in a perpetual state of outrage toward us.
 
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No ... It can't be .... since the universe doesn't make decisions ... it follows laws of nature to a t. The universe doesn't have agency.

Not insofar as our own puny existence can discern, sure.
 
Hmmm. If you say so. Excuse me if I don't buy into the trolls business. And the "passe" business. In my view, only fashion is passe. And certain scientific pronouncements solemnly given.
There is no more susceptible a phenomenon to faddism than trolling. It's a different damn catchphrase or meme every week.
 
My view on god is probably better defined by what I don't know instead of what I do. Let me give examples.

Whatever I pray for I get. It has so far worked without fail. However it may not be straight forward. For example, last month I realized I was breaking even on my monthly budget, so I asked for a better job. Immediately, people started mentioning an IT certification, which I eventually got four days ago. The next day I was informed I am going to be promoted. That's an easy one.

Another, less straight forward example of something I am currently going through. I was recently divorced and was so invested in the marriage that I came out of it with no social life. I am still having trouble getting one. So I ask for help. What happens is that I get the sense I need to give god permission to change me, so I do. The next day I notice I am suddenly more sensitive to the people around me, to the point, I can literally feel people's emotional state. I ask what gives, I get the sense to go with it, so I am. Now what seems to be happening is this sensitivity is forcing me to take a new look at people from a much more loving perspective. So that's currently happening and I am adjusting to it, but people are responding much more positively and intimately to me already. I have been told I radiate peace now. So I gather god is using my wish as an excuse to make me a better person as well. This is where I don't know things. God's perspective is so much bigger than mine, I get introduced to a better me all the time, I can't ever comprehend the ultimate big picture though, I get unexpected stuff I never though of, but turns out to be perfect all the time.

I am not traditional. I find church difficult for example, people always seem fake at church. When I go, I bring all of me, good bad, light dark, pure impure. I am me all the time. Other people wear masks and only show what's acceptable to that situation, which turns me off. I have few christian friends. I don't care for christian political culture or such as that. I tend to take things as they are and don't strive for perfection. Yet I constantly get better anyway due to my interaction with god and the things I learn. Sometimes I wonder why what I do works but it does.

Whenever I pray, I feel gods presence without fail too.

I don't know anyone who quite experiences this like I do. I sometimes wonder if its simply because I don't try and interfere with my own ideas. I am smart, but I am also finite.
 
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Not insofar as our own puny existence can discern, sure.

Yeah, but so far everything points to the fact that the universe doesn't like agency.
 
There is no more susceptible a phenomenon to faddism than trolling. It's a different damn catchphrase or meme every week.
Ahhh, but you got to love 'em. Think of the people that spend hours just dreaming them up. What else would or could they be doing?
 
Yeah, but so far everything points to the fact that the universe doesn't like agency.

I would argue that is not the case since we have it. It's obviously baked in.
 
Ahhh, but you got to love 'em. Think of the people that spend hours just dreaming them up. What else would or could they be doing?
There is that.
 
I would argue that is not the case since we have it. It's obviously baked in.

how does that follow? Why does us having agency require everything to have agency?
 
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