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Let's get real for a moment
about the most basic, fundamental, human
beliefs-- our beliefs about who
and/or what we are, where
we came from, why we
are here on Earth, and what
happens to us when our body dies?
We have hints, best guesses, an much evidence
pointing in particular direction, but as for
specific, exact provable answers, there are
none.
The most fundamental
question of all time is about the unknown and
unknowable mystery we call
"Creator/God." Does the
Universe have a creator or is everything an
accident? If it has a source, what's the
nature of that source, and what is our
relationship to that source? All
of the above uncertainties are commonly lumped
into one question: "Do you believe
in God?"
We can hear countless hours
of countless men and women telling countless
stories and countless so-called-facts about
"God" to anybody who will
listen. Rarely, if ever will you
here anybody define what they mean by the word
"God." This lack of clarity
creates a huge problem. Any time
anybody mentions the word "God," the
listener immediately applies his or her own
personal definition of God to the
conversation. Those
definitions vary widely and each precipitates
its own beliefs and behavior patterns.
Before we can answer the question,
Do you believe in God?, or have even a
remotely, coherent discussion of the topic, we need to define what
we mean
when we say "God." Here
are the two main, commonly accepted,
completely-at-odds-with-each-other perspectives on
Creator/God:
The
False Face of God:
Are
you talking about a fickle, angry, jealous, easily displeased, wrathful,
vindictive, vengeful, super-human being sitting on a
throne somewhere overhead in the sky? Are
you talking about a
god who (for reasons that
completely escape human understanding and with what seems like arbitrary
unpredictability) heaps great
good fortune onto some, horrendous misery onto others, and
pretty much ignores everyone else?
Are you talking about a
god who can, at
his whim and will, step outside the laws of the universe and do anything
he chooses, including acts of
magic,²
and granting special
favors to those who bribe him with prayers and adoration, or
destroying someone's life in a momentary fit of anger?
Are
you talking about a
god with an ego so great that he demands our worship and
a self-image so small that he demands our obedience -- a god
so weak that he needs our help to punish the unfaithful -- a
god so weird that
he murdered his own son as an expression of
love ²
--
a god so angry, hypocritical, and unforgiving that he
preaches forgiveness and, at the same time, is still punishing people
today because a long- dead ancestor (Eve) ate "fruit" from a
forbidden tree -- a god
so ridiculous that he abandons and condemns to never-never
land literally billions of humans simply because they never
got sprinkled with or immersed in water by the correct
holly man?
Are
you talking about a needy, self-centered, brooding god who offers free will and then demands
obedience to a set confusing and self-conflicting rules that are impossible to
comply with?
Are
you talking about a masculine god who created women as sex slaves and servants
-- a god so small
he can fit inside of a single religion or into a single sacred text -- a
god who demands that we murder people
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simply because they
believe in a different religion? Are you talking about The
Great God Money,²
the most revered deity on the planet today?
If that's your definition of God, then
the answer is no. I don't believe anything
which fits the above description could possibly be God. I'd sooner believe
that the tooth fairy and the
Easter bunny were living in my attic and having an affair with
Miss America.
The
Faceless Face of God:
When
you ask, "Do you believe in God?" are you are talking about the source of all creation -- a source and a consciousness
that transcends human understanding? Are
you talking about the sum total of all that is -- the ever-flowing
essence of everything -- the central cause of all creation, from the
minutest to the greatest -- the source of everything we are and everything we
experience?
Are
you talking about "An Infinite Source" who/which/that neither rewards nor
punishes -- a God that
has created a set of invisible laws
² -- laws that are as immutable as the
law of gravity, laws that we each can intentionally use to create our own
personal experiences (or ignore at our own peril)?
Are
you talking about a "God" that is unknown and unknowable -- a God
that expresses itself in a mysterious form of consciousness-- a
"God" that expresses itself as freedom, love, joy, and beauty -- a god
that manifests itself as the sum total of everything we are aware of in what we call
the physical universe?
Are
you talking about a
"God" that manifests itself in each of us as
whatever we choose by our thoughts, beliefs,
emotions, words, and actions ² -- a God that allows us
complete freedom to unconsciously create pain
and misery or to consciously create love, joy, and beauty in what we call the physical
world?
Are
you talking about a God that we are each an intimate part of
-- a God which is that mysterious part of ourselves we refer to
when we say "I' of "me,"
If
that's your definition of God, then the answer is "DEFINITELY YES, I DO BELIEVE IN GOD!"
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Truth Speaker, Robert Coté, speaks
the truth on his website TruthSpeaker.net. 
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