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If God is all existence...?

...does that mean God is perceiving Himself and being Himself at the same time?

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  • 8 years ago
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    God = existence. We are a manifestation of existence, which perceives itself through us.

  • 8 years ago

    In Stephen King's horror novel IT, the author portrays God as sort of, kind of giant cosmic turtle, and our universe is something it just belched out (I kid you not), but it sympathized with one of the characters fighting an ancient evil roosting underground up in godforsaken Maine somewhere, and so it helped him win against the evil being, at least temporarily. God was sort of indifferent, but politely helpful when confronted. I have no idea what this answer means, but I tossed it out there anyway. Hope this helped.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    "All That Is is not a product, finished or otherwise. There are probable gods as there are probable men; but these probable gods are all a part of what you may call the soul of, or the identity of, All That Is; even as your probable selves are all a portion of your soul or entity.

    The dimensions of actuality possible to All That Is of course far exceed those presently available to you. In a manner of speaking, you have created many probable gods through your own thoughts and desires. They become quite independent psychic entities, validities in other levels of existence. The one All That Is is aware not only of Its own nature and of the nature of all consciousness, but is also aware of Its infinite probable selves. We go here toward subjects in which words become meaningless.

    The nature of All That Is can only be sensed directly through the inner senses, or, in a weaker communication, through inspiration or intuition. The miraculous complexity of such reality cannot be translated verbally."

    ----Seth

  • 8 years ago

    "God can see everything, except his own eye". This implies an ultimate vantage point, perhaps it also signifies a limit to God's power. Does it mean consciousness views reality from an outside point, while the bulk of reality is "inside"?

    Another idea is that "God cannot eat himself".

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I don't think God is all existence. He created us. He resides in us but at the same time our soul resides in us too. God will always be with us, but he won't live for us.

  • 8 years ago

    It might be kind of confusing.

    How can He be something that he is perceiving?

    If he's omniscient, he should know it all... and thus the world would have a goal - but, according to your thinking, the idea of God would be impossible and this way he could not exist.

    How can things exist if they were not perceived before? How could things appear if there was no rational thought behind it?

    This definately refutes Him.

  • Trust?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Simple

  • 8 years ago

    The substitution of the word God for essence is superficial. This neither provides insight into the relation between the superhuman and human nor does it reflect accurately upon ontological inquiry post-Kant. Moreover, the matter of perception would necessarily invoke one to examine pantheism. It's fairly clear in the various traditions of monotheism that 'perceiving and knowing' compare problematically to 'commanding and obeying'.

  • 8 years ago

    Existence is all that we perceive, but we are not all that existence perceives.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    God is everywhen.

    My trust is in a first century Jewish man.

    We know he existed because we have his words.

    Once we establish why I believe his words hold the keys to life, we can work out in concentric circles to his birth, death, miracles, stories from more ancient texts, etc.

    If you really want to know him, you have to go to the high priest - the antitype of the archetypes - the irreligious Jesus. The God who washes our feet.

    @ Baron: Funny: when you speak I hear a clanging gong.

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