Exactly that. Thanks.
Here is my short anecdotal story.
The Godhead I know in a nutshell.
I was a skeptic till the age of 39.
I then had an apotheosis and later branded myself an esoteric ecumenist and Gnostic Christian. Gnostic Christian because I exemplify this quote from William Blake.
“Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.”
This refers to how Gnostics tend to reverse, for moral reasons, what Christians see in the Bible. We tend to recognize the evil ways of O T God where literal Christians will see God’s killing as good. Christians are sheep where Gnostic Christians are goats.
This is perhaps why we see the use of a Jesus scapegoat as immoral, while theists like to make Jesus their beast of burden. An immoral position.
During my apotheosis, something that only lasted 5 or 6 seconds, the only things of note to happen was that my paradigm of reality was confirmed and I was chastised to think more demographically. What I found was what I call a cosmic consciousness. Not a new term but one that is a close but not exact fit.
I recognize that I have no proof. That is always the way with apotheosis.
This is also why I prefer to stick to issues of morality because no one has yet been able to prove that God is real and I have no more proof than they for the cosmic consciousness.
The cosmic consciousness is not a miracle working God. He does not interfere with us save when one of us finds it. Not a common thing from what I can see. It is a part of nature and our next evolutionary step.
I tend to have more in common with atheists who ignore what they see as my delusion because our morals are basically identical. Theist tend not to like me much as I have no respect for literalists and fundamentals and think that most Christians have tribal mentalities and poor morals.
I am rather between a rock and a hard place but this I cannot help.
I am happy to be questioned on what I believe but whether or not God exists is basically irrelevant to this world for all that he does not do, and I prefer to thrash out moral issues that can actually find an end point. The search for God is never ending when you are of the Gnostic persuasion. My apotheosis basically says that I am to discard whatever God I found, God as a set of rules that is, not idol worship it but instead, raise my bar and seek further.
My apotheosis also showed me that God has no need for love, adoration or obedience. He has no needs. Man has dominion here on earth and is to be and is the supreme being.
Regards
DL
Gotta tell you that i consider the above and the respective thread a bit of a woooeeee. Anyway.
I despise religion, any kind of segregation/elitism is the source of the many woes mankind faces, has faced, and will face if this doesn't get solved.
What you are trying to play here GIA is the role of the "Enlightened" but seriously, you handpick the Versicles of the Bible to back up whatever argument you might come up with, and that's not cool. If you were really, honestly, trying to come with a serious discussion about the contraditions of the Bible rather than this mad rant against religion, then your threads (and you as well), wouldn't be seem, or considered as, the preacher in the middle of the square shouting angrily at passer-byes (is that a word?), announcing the end of the world.
And in the end, GIA, you're winding down the same path you (and I) seem to utterly disregard, you will boil down, sooner or later, to a new branch of belief you deem to be the true one which is (take a guess) what every single other religion thinks of itself (or the respective followers of said religion in that case), and this solely will lead to more conflict and seriously, this takes us nowhere, if we are to go somewhere on this subject.
If we are to disregard "Religion", we should disregard any kind of belief that gets close to it altogether.
If you really think of yourself as a "Clarvoyant" on this matter you should seriously think about the path ahead and to where will it lead.
I think (from previous posts of a bygone year) that you will. At least I hope you do.
