Never happened literally, the Jesus role was all spiritual concerning the Divine Seed that lies dormant in the conscience of man until the rain from above awakens that memory, plus the only reason you bark against the Pauline dogma is that it erases the literal ethnic Jews dominance in scripture which Paul rightly exposed as allegorical.
I gather some liberal forms of Judaism may venture out a bit further and try some other ideas on for size
BEN MASADA,
There is 9 years left for JESUS and THE FATHER to return in Sept. 21, 2024.
I am sure that you will see that there are definitely 2 Gods.
Since , JESUS was the God of the Old Testament,
you have been Worshiping JESUS since your youth.
BEN MASADA
BOTH JESUS AND GOD THE FATHER WILL COME TO THE EARTH SOON.
Watch and you shall see .
BOTH JESUS AND GOD THE FATHER WILL COME TO THE EARTH SOON.
Watch and you shall see .
Will the Father be with Jesus and visible in some kind of 'form'? How will we identify the Father?
Is this oneness of God the key to knowing God?
If God is one, then all we need to know is how to be one, or how to experience oneness.
Socrates said: “Know yourself.” And knowing yourself is a self-referral experience… or in other words, just being silently awake within yourself. There is no duality there, just oneness. And just oneness means just God.
I got this idea while reading this:
http://rishipedia.org/know-yourself-the-time-for-joy.htm
So what do you think? Could being fully awake in perfect stillness be the key to gaining some familiarity with God's nature?
"Be still and know that I am God"... I think that is in the Bible somewhere.
Yes, Bybee, the Primal Cause is present throughout the universe. He can't be seen by mortals because He is a Spiritual Entity. Were He of the constitution of matter He would contradict the logical concept of Causality for causing itself to exist which is impossible. Regarding being present throughout the universe, Albert Einstein connected Him with the expansion of the universe in his book "Out of My Latter Years."
Thanks. I have wrestled with the ideas of God/Creator as both immanent and transcendent. But if immanent what is left to transcend?
1 - Is this oneness of God the key to knowing God?
2 - If God is one, then all we need to know is how to be one, or how to experience oneness.
3 - Socrates said: “Know yourself.” And knowing yourself is a self-referral experience… or in other words, just being silently awake within yourself. There is no duality there, just oneness. And just oneness means just God.
4 - So what do you think? Could being fully awake in perfect stillness be the key to gaining some familiarity with God's nature?
5 - "Be still and know that I am God"... I think that is in the Bible somewhere.
Thanks. I have wrestled with the ideas of God/Creator as both immanent and transcendent. But if immanent what is left to transcend?
Thanks. I have wrestled with the ideas of God/Creator as both immanent and transcendent. But if immanent what is left to transcend?
3 - To know yourself without any reference to the Oneness of HaShem is too humanistic; not wrong though but it ought to be with the consciousness of the absolute Oneness of HaShem.
But the intrinsic oneness of 'God' is already always innate to the oneness of existence itself, which is reflected within one's own consciousness. In other words, to know or experience 'oneness' is to recognize the unity at the heart of all things, because God's oneness pervades and encompasses all.
You are comparing the Oneness of HaShem with man's. The Oneness of HaShem is compatible with the existence of reality, not of man's. Man's existence is transient. Real existence is eternal. (Isa. 46:5; Deut. 4:15,16)
If "God" filled a room with a lot of different doors, and we went around opening those doors, it's very likely that God would "look different" through each one of them, because we would only be seeing a small part of the whole of God, that's inside.
Religions that have multiple gods, or demigods, view these as different godlike manifestations of a single 'meta-God' that is otherwise beyond our comprehension, and is often left unnamed for that reason. And Christianity is no different. The 'Trinity' is made up of three different manifestations, or expressions, of one God. A human manifestation in the form of Jesus the Christ, an internal spiritual manifestation within each of us called the "Holy Spirit", and the inexplicable meta-manifestation of God as the creator and sustainer of all that exists that has no name but is simply referred to as "God" or "God the Father".
These are not different gods, or demigods. They are simply different manifestations of God as experienced and understood from OUR limited and relative perspective. And in that sense, Christianity is no different from Hinduism, Shintoism, Islam, or most other religions with multiple divinities.