Do you think human perception is God?
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No! God is human perception
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Sometimes.\nIf you think about it this way, sometimes a person might think that a very religious Christian or Muslim might be blind because they think from an exclusively religious perspective and has little room for the flexibility of an agnostic, or the freedom of a free-thinker.\nThis is because there is God, and end of story, everything has to go through the "there is a God" screening process and they can't bear to think how something, a siutation or thoery can be without the grace of God's work, or His presence in it.\nYet, when you think of this stubborness to step away from all that and see a bigger picture (meaning don't go from the ultra-religious viewpoint), try comparing it with an atheist.\nHe too, thinks from a ultra-stubborn point of view. "There is NO God!" He states.\nAnd everything runs through the "there is no God" screening process, and he can't bear to think that there might be the very real possibility of God encompassing the human being's life, that the very product of Science is the product of God's work.\nHe too, is stubborn, and often inflexible.\nThus, from this viewpoint, one can make a statement that the atheist is as blind as the religiously faithful.\nI'm not at all saying the agnostic triumphs. But an agnostic does not necessarily "sit on the fence", nor does the agnostic throws his hands up in the air and is confused.\nAgnostics constantly lean to one side of the argument, but leave a possibility of this other. An agnostic is constantly in transit, has room for ideas, no matter how outrageous and runs a balance of logic and faith, constantly he's in between following his heart and mind, and being guided spiritually by God, or an unknown force (maybe it's his conviction and rational belief?).\nEither way, yes, I do think an atheist is blind, but not in the absolute sense, he is blind in indignance, rebellion and the ego and accomplishments of mankind and his discoveries, relying most of his explanations in mankind's humble abilities in enquiry and research.\nAnd in the same way, an absolutist religious fanatic that cannot relate to human science is just the same, on blind faith.
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My description of god is summed up in saying God is a grown ups makebelieve friend.  Don't know if its right or not but seems logical seeings how we don't ever see the guy.
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Interesting question. Here is what i think of this. God does not need to be human first to be able to make humans. Just like we dont need to be a cd or a dvd player to be able to make them. 'In His image' means that we have in us, qualities that are His too, like love and compassion, and the ability to create new things, like tv's, and other electric, non-electric things. Even can play with dna and come up with new things. But all this does not qualify us as Gods, for we are "In His image", and not Gods per sec. Image is like a shadow of a thing, like one's reflection in a mirror. We have in us but a reflection of His qualities, which make us "in His image" but not Him.
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In the world of reality, whatsoever is captured by the senses, seen or unseen is real. In the world of faith, whatsoever is captured by the senses, seen or unseen is unreal and can never be held as God because the Real God can never be imagined by imagination and can never be captured by the senses. The Real God is Real; and can be realized by the creatures in faith only. After the acceptance of faith and practice of good deeds and by the answer of the prayers asked in the presence of God, God is almost realized by the heart. Once God is realized, God is realized forever and only then one can realize the reality of The Real God.\n\nGod says:\n‘I and I Alone am God\nand all other gods are unreal.’\n\nWe know all other gods are very much seen and can be perceived and imagined easily. Since, they are imaginable images, they can be destroyed and that is what makes them Unreal.\n\nGod has commanded us not to make an image of God and worship it. Whosoever will do so, will be held as an enemy of God. God does not resemble things. Things maybe of any kind, physical or meta physical, existent or non existent. Whatsoever is captured, touched or felt by the senses is not God. Worship God, Honour God and Serve God and always remember that God is Unseen. In this world whosoever is worshipping image or image like things is not worshipping the Almighty Unseen God of all the things in heavens and earth.\nGod created this universe and made it a home for the creatures. So that the creatures might pay thanks to God through worship and obedience and in turn they might receive God’s blessings.\n\nUniverse is a creation of God and behind it____ is God’s Almightiness. God created the needs___ the needies____ and all the things of needs. God is God____ God is need-free and Absolute Holy.\n\nGod is Almighty. God creates whatsoever God wills to create. Each and every creature of God is answerable to God and God is not answerable to anyone.\n\nIf the worshippers worship God and obey Gods commandments, it makes no difference to God. But on the other side, it makes a lot of difference to the worshippers if they do not worship God as they become empty-hearted and remain empty-hearted until and unless they resort to God.\n\nIf the sinners sin and disobey God, it makes no difference to God but the sinful life brings a lot of difference to the sinners as the sins necessitate the curse of God.\n\nCurse is the God ordained result of sin\nWhile blessing is the God ordained\nresult of virtue.\n\nGod has already judged the sinners and the righteous, in terms of their deeds through revealing the commandments and ordaining the ways to Hell and Heaven.\nKey-point to receive the blessings of God___ is to become God’s dependent by all means____ through prayers_____ and patience ____ and trust in God.\nGod helps and guides aright to those who ask God for God’s help and guidance.\nThe people who do not believe God and lead a lustful life____ are always mislead to disaster.
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Whether God exists is not the question. If you look you can see God's hand in life all around you. The question is more of what is God?  Through logical discourse, testimony of other people and other such evidence you can start to decide whether any religion has a clue, whether God is a factor of the human collective or spirits or whatever conclusion you can deduce from the evidence. \n\nThe first step is to look for inconsistancies in magnitude or frequency which imply intelligence over the normal chaos of randomness. If there is no God then the chaos factor will rule. There will be occasional accidents which can seem as if there was intelligent action behind them. By nature these must be rare as the result must be random if there is no God. I am talking about matters beyond normal human control that is. Also about understood factors. Cancer going into sudden remission is beyond our ability to understand right now. It cannot be claimed or refuted as a mircle because we just don't know enough to say. \n\nInstead look to things we do understand the mechanics of. Then look for the unexplained. A %100 fatal disease suddenly being cured is an example. Of course the diagnosis has to be accurate and the remission total. Changes in peoples lives from external sources. The mechanics of social interaction are well understood. The flight of a butterfly perhaps holds a clue if you study it with an open mind. To see God's hand you have to look for it. It won't often slap you accross the face and you can deny it's existance despite postive proof just as easily as you can find proof in randomness if you have decided before opening your eyes what you intend to see and work at seeing just that. To prove of disprove you have to look as objecctively as you can. Drop as many predisposiions as you can and just look for a while. After you look follow up possible leads and objectively say this might be or this can be explained by such and such and assign a probability of that being a reasonable explanation. Many "acts of God" are pure randomness. There comes a point where random is too random though in my opinion. Where mathimatical odds of coincidence become too high to be remotely acceptable. \n\nI believe there is God. The nature of God is something I am trying to learn right now. I reject all theology at this time as it is subjective and the nature of God to me is too important an aspect to just accept somebody else's opinion. I want to know for myself what it is. So I examine all the possibilities and discard those that discredit themselves. In general the preponents of a description of God to me are irrelivent. Bad people taint good ideas all the time. Still if a theology is by nature corrupt it will produce %100 corruption in it's proponents. If I meet a large enough sampling and see a commmon trait prescribed by that theology I'll reject that theologie's dogma as harmfull. That does not make the base theology wrong, just the surrounding dogma and celibration of it harmfull. Too many people reject God as non-existant based on very subjective criteria. Bad experiences with the application of dogma for example. Bad experiences with theology is another. They forget Theology is a man made thing. People do what they will with information, information being just another tool in man's hand. It can be used for good or bad. The source of the theology is distinct and different. To blame God for the actions of a clergy group is like blaming iron for being made into a sword. Iron is an ore that minds it's own business in the ground. Men discover it and make what suits them from it. This is free will in action. It is free will though that makes me believe in God the most. Nature abhor's a vacume and free will is a vacume of power. It is an unatural state. It's existance a rebuke to randomness and nature. All other elements follow closely very prescribed rules. Life does what it pleases when it
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Whether I believed in God or not, my behavior would change very little.  I believe that life is more pleasant when we treat each other with respect, compassion and generosity, and demand the same from our leaders.  It is worse when we seek to comfort ourselves to the detriment of others.  Promises of reward and threats of punishment are not necessary.\n\nIt's not a matter to me of whether I believe God exists but whether God, as presented, makes sense.  If God created us to endure a series of tests or a rule-bound game, with an absolute reward/punishment outcome, I'd consider that God unworthy of the concept.  If God is a co-witness and fellow traveller who values experience over obedience, whose concept of justice is based on compassion rather than rules, and who would never consider abandoning one of his creatures, I could buy into that.  \n\nGod is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent.  They say knowledge is power, then they say power, especially absolute power, corrupts.  Not quite true.  As humans, we can never have absolute knowledge or power, only "more" of each.  It is the remaining ignorance and fear that corrupts us because our grasp is tenuous.  Were someone to have absolute control of all power and knowledge in the universe, that person would be invulnerable and would understand everything.  That person would have no needs or threats, and no obligation to "settle" others' conflicts.  That person would be free to either ignore the problems or to objectively show a better way out of them.\n\nIf you are a parent, you may have had an experience of children fighting among themselves, understanding both of them perfectly while realizing that their dispute is meaningless.  Or you may have comforted a child facing a new experience, or cautioned a child incapable of recognizing a danger.  That's what it would be like for God.  Dispassion, wisdom, and patience would be God's attributes.  Anger, revenge and score-keeping just don't fit the picture.  These are the attributes of weak, fearful, childish humans.\n\nThe omniscience we lack is the reason we are in conflict, because we don't understand each other.  The omnipotence we lack means some of us will be stronger than others and we would likely exploit that for the sake of our own security.  God would transcend all that.  Absolute knowledge is understanding.  Absolute power is compassion.\n\nIf God were presented logically, as a loving creator who calls us out of fear into confidence and sympathy, I could go for it. The petty, capricious autocrat painted by Bible-thumpers doesn't make the grade.
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To answer this question, you have to ask yourself: is there an inherent need in humans to beleive in God or a deity?  I beleive in God because I acknowledge that something, whatever it may be exists beyond what we know & understand.  That is to say, i beleive that God isn't what the majority of the world would lead us to beleive.  God is there, but we can't possibly understand it.  To understand God is to be God.  This raises another question: are humans their own individual God, just on a different level?  So if you answer yes to the previous question, I think one might be able to take comfort in their own 'Godness,' and the 'Godness' around you.
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The moment u can give any image to God, he is not God. God is actually NOOR (i.e. light). Be logical, if the God would be just like u and me with 2 eyes and ears, whats the use of worshipping him? God is not physical...
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I think everyone and everything is beautiful to God.  It is we who develop narrow standards of beauty.\n\n"Man judges the outside, but God judges the heart." --somewhere in 1 Samuel.\n\nBy not making everyone "beautiful" by human standards, God may be trying to stretch our tolerance, our compassion, and our imagination.
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Your perception of God is your own.\n\nAs a Hindu I believe that there is one God, but that God is so vast and large that we each individually experience and approach God differently (thus lots of different religions). That all will discover the same ultimate truth in any religion because it dwells within our inner self (and every religion ultimately takes the practictioner to look within). Thus all religions are valid paths. "Truth is one, though humanity calls it by different names." Rig Veda\nAs a Hindu I believe that God always listens to us regardless of what name we call God by that whatever form we meditate upon God, God will always come to us. "What I am is utterly beyond your minds ability to fully comprehend, thus call me by whatever name and worship me and meditate upon me in whatever form. I promise that by whatever name you call upon me I shall hear you and by whatever form you worship me I shall come to you." Tripura Rahasya. \nUltimate God is beyond name and form, and yet manifested the entire cosmos into existences and thereby took form, too. \nHindus believe that when one dies our consciousness projects the experience we will have. Thus, when we die it is our consciousness that creates the temporary heaven we go to. If we have expected heaven to be a place where we gather with our ancestors...then our consciousness will project a heaven with our ancestors and God will take on the form of ancestors to be with us. If we expect a heaven with, say, Jesus, then our consciousness will project a heaven and God will take the form of Jesus. Heaven is just temporary and our karma (actions) and desires will lead us back to samsara (the cycle of birth, death, rebirth) and we will reincarnate. The ultimate goal of a Hindu is moksha or liberation of samsara and union with God completely. They often use the example of an ocean. The water evaporates and forms clouds, the clouds get so heavy that eventually the water falls in the form of rain. The rain forms streams and the streams come together and form rivers. The rivers ultimately merge back into the ocean. God is the ocean and we are the droplets of water. The rivers and streams are just religions and paths back to God.\n\nAnd that is what I believe, as a Hindu.
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I dont think people neccessarily need "God"... people just need "something" to believe in. When you think about it, people believe in God because they need a purpose in their life. They need to believe that there is a reason to live...something to look forward to, something to believe in. For some people, its God, for others its buddah, or the Sun.. and for me... its karma. I believe I exist because things happen for a reason... and good things will come to those who do good things. To me, all of those things are the same... its just how people conceptualize them and what they do with it. :)
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Yes, that makes partial sense. Except for the God part. I believe that he is separate from us. He is outside of space and time and is not in our dimension.
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A very good question.\n\nTo me God is what we are not able to understand beause of our limitations.  I don't tend to define or anthromorphize God so it is easy for me to accept God's existance and all of science.  I tend to think of God more as the unknowable forces at play in everyday life more than as a creator but am perfectly willing to accept that as well.\n\nGod is only a problem when we try too hard to define what God is.
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man sees people for the outside but God sees people in the inside(from their hearts) maybe u should be more like God!
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Hmmm. Hi. Perhaps my perception on things hasn't been explained clearly enough. I apologize for that. Here is, in short, what I do and don't believe:\n\nThere is no such thing as a god. To me, the concept of the existence of a deity (besides being unproved and absurd) is just that- a concept. And a misleading one, at that. To me, it's a lie.\n\nI do not worship the christian devil. Hell, I do not even believe in it! To me, Satan is a reflection of humanity. You are your own god, and are free to accept it or not. Satan is not an entity, it's a force, it's in us. It's our vital force.\n\nHave fun, and be tolerant.\n\nBy the way, when I say Satan's spawn, it doesn't mean I believe I am the child of your devil, it means I am the Satan, as it is in me. It's sometimes also meant to shock. Depends.\n\nHappy, now?
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I believe (as a Christian) that God made us humans in his own likeness, and everything else was not specifically in his image. He also breathed life into humans himself. He gave us and only us souls. That's what I think. It's up to you to decide for yourself.\nThanks,\n~Me