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M*W: Let me throw this out at ya! A while back, I made a statement that I believe the original god of the OT to be nothing more than electricity -- the 'elecktrikus'. Prior to coming to that conclusion, I believed god to be a pure force of positive energy that indwelled with all creation, more specifically, humanity. Then, as I gave it more thought, I studied about the Ark of the Covenant and how powerful it seemed to be. Now, I believe the Ark contained some kind of battery or generator. Back some 5,000 years ago, batteries were known to have existed. In fact, one such battery was in the Baghdad Museum. Who knows if it's still there?
Interestingly, these ancient batteries had a mid-polar piece with a coil circularly rising around the center piece. This object had healing powers and the whole visual of it became the symbol of the cadeuces -- much like a serpent coiled around a tree -- meaning healing and wisdom.
I believe the 'Big Bang' happened more slowly. In fact, I would say that the 'Big Bang' goes on as we speak. You know, kinda like the ripple effect. We're still in the process of evolution. Some people say, "God isn't finished with us yet." I'd rather say that we're not finished with ourselves yet.
Also, not too many moons ago I came up with the idea that God is Humanity ergo Humanity is God. If that's true, then the whole point of who or what god is has been direly missed. Look how much progress us human beans have made! We are now able to regenerate organs with the use of autologous stem cell transplantation from bone marrow. That's been used for years now. Now we're realizing the next best thing to embryonic stem cell transplantation. It's being done all over the world except here in the USA. Well, I really won't go so far to say that it's not being done here -- we just haven't heard about it.
I know some scientists in Germany who are using the female ovum and transplanting it into hearts and other organs. Surely no one can complain about that! It has a very good success rate for regenerating the myocardium.
The advantage in this country is that stem cell transplantation can be done in private facilities where no federal funds are endowed.
That's getting off point. What I was trying to say is that we've come a long way, baby. I believe we have what is called genetic memory. All the knowledge of the universe, including whether or not there is a god out there, is stored in the human brain. What we don't realize is that we are god. In the not too far future, we will be able to live longer than ever before. I believe we will actually be able to attain eternal life in vivo.
That which I previously called the One Spirit of God, or the electricity that powers us, is what I thought was our eternal divine 'spirit.' I still feel that humanity is divine (more so than any other powerful deity out there), but what I have called our 'spirit' is nothing more than electrical impulses.
And why shouldn't we be divine? The random-type process you mentioned I believe was caused by electrical storms during the early 'Big Bang' when the ice caps melted from the warmth of the sun, and vast waters covered the planet. Again, the warmth of the sun and the thunderstorms and lightning striking the waters created the perfect ecosphere for life. The rest is history.
There is no god other than humanity. What the ancient ancestors of the Hebrews called 'El' and 'Eloh,' and the ancient ancestors of the Muslims called 'Al' and 'Allah' are the same word source. They both mean 'god.' Interestingly, 'Helios' is the Greek word for 'sun.' Our early ancestors worshipped the sun as their god, and probably, 'Helios' is where 'hell' came from. They feared this uncontrollable god who could blind them if they looked directly in it's face.
My conclusion is, there is no god but 'el-ecktrikus.'
