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IFISEEUS
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. -- William James Subversion of Christianity The old God has the character of a ruler and made us to serve Him, honor His law, obey his orders, and submit to his will since we are forever his creation and property and He knows best. In contrast, the ideal creator's character would be that of a sharer and a server, not a ruler, where his objective would be to share everything with us and to serve us. The old God created us in his image but he will always be transcendently beyond us as sovereign, superior and supreme with his creative power, and will always retain a position of control. In contrast, the ideal creator would be able to create us in his image to be his equals fully--children gods--not underlings or inferiors. He would intend and be able to share fully with us everything that he has and no one would need be in a position of control. The psyche and personality of the old God is alien, or trans/ultra human and beyond the fathom of human beings. The psyche of the ideal God would be totally and only human, and not other or alien in any way. The old God's "great" truth is beyond human reason and understanding, and must be accepted a priori and cannot be questioned since it cannot be demonstrated. In contrast, the truth about the ideal God would have nothing in it which contradicts the facts, nor violates logic, nor transcends reason when we understand the purpose of God. What is scandalous is that we don't conceive of and demand that our "God" be logical and reasonable. The old God designed pure or true love to be indefinable and indescribable, or, if it is either, it is defined or described in terms of some unreachable aspect of God's character, and involves giving and sacrificing. In contrast, the ideal creator God would design Love to be sharing, and it would always be a win/win situation whereby the personal pleasure, fulfillment and gain in an interaction would be inherent, prominent, perceived and openly admitted. The old God has a "great" chronologically predetermined plan of salvation where salvation means to be accounted righteous and "marked in God's book" for resurrection or translation at some later time. In contrast, the ideal God would not have a chronologically determined agenda, but would make it so salvation, which means nothing less than to be free from all lack, pain, danger or harm of any kind, including that of the flesh, would be imminently available. He would have a simple, elegant, spiritual way to achieve salvation. |
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