Are you a God in waiting, or have you stepped up to your destiny?

Discuss philosophical questions regarding theism (and atheism), and discuss religion as it relates to philosophy. This includes any philosophical discussions that happen to be about god, gods, or a 'higher power' or the belief of them. This also generally includes philosophical topics about organized or ritualistic mysticism or about organized, common or ritualistic beliefs in the existence of supernatural phenomenon.
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Are you a God in waiting, or have you stepped up to your destiny?

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Are you a God in waiting, or have you stepped up to your destiny?

If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

Gen3;22 Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil;
Note the “Us”.

Those foolish Christians who believe in the one supernatural God can never live their true naturalistic religion.

Those Christians can never be “Us”, as they see some major immoral sins as good. Homophobia and misogyny.

Unfortunately, they will never gain a Jesus consciousness or be elected to Christ.

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

I find more Jesus consciousness in non-believers, than in the right-wing believers.

This is not to say that the right are not mostly good.

Most are not quite the best good, as they have let supernatural belief have them forget their predestined legacy.

Their single eye is closed.

Religiously speaking, if Christians are fearful of becoming Jesus like, it is no wonder that the only Christian denomination that does live his and her Christian religion, are Gnostic Christian.

Christian who are unaware of how he is supposed to interpret and live Christianity, should ask a Gnostic Christian.

What the inquisitors wrote into history to justify themselves, are mostly lies.

We died because we were the good Christians, who recognized our religious due and destiny.

We also died for naming the supernatural god, evil.

Jesus died for Gnostic Christians, not Constantine’s Christians.

As Jesus asked in the bible, have you forgotten that you are a God?

Step up to your destiny and single your eye.

The supernatural is killing our eco system.

Natural might be a lesser evil than un-natural supernatural.

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DL
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Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

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DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?

You propose that if you believe in the scriptures you have reached Godhood, but what happens to someone like me who doesn’t believe the scriptures?
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AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

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DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?

You propose that if you believe in the scriptures you have reached Godhood, but what happens to someone like me who doesn’t believe the scriptures?
Then I would think you are already an intelligent adult, and have advanced or elevated yourself above the foolish thinking, that holy books are anything other than myths.

You will have already matured away from foolish supernatural thinking.

You may already know that you are the only God you will ever really know.

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DL
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AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

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DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?
It depends if we can agree on a definition of god.
The post title implies that you are not a god but could be. Yet the sentence you quoted implies that god is the creator.
If we can clear this definition the discussion can move forward
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JackManson wrote: February 10th, 2022, 1:16 pm
AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

Regards
DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?
It depends if we can agree on a definition of god.
The post title implies that you are not a god but could be. Yet the sentence you quoted implies that god is the creator.
If we can clear this definition the discussion can move forward
Even if you’re saying that someone/thing other than God created forum members in God’s image, it isn’t the definition we must deal with, but the image.

If not you, then more importantly someone/thing else must have seen God in order to create humans in the image of God.

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(must apologizing for spastic fingers)

So to clear up the definition of God is irrelevant to this thread. And the definition of a creator is unnecessary beyond to say that a creator is someone/thing that creates.

I’ll ask you emphatically, what happens to someone like me who doesn’t believe the writings? It may help you to know that I also don’t believe that we were created in God’s image. All this is to say that unless you can show otherwise, whether or not and when if I enter Godhood is mute. I offer you the chance to show me that this is applicable.
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To answer the thread title directly and irrespective of the post preceding mine, I can readily say that I doubt I am a God, and as my destiny is yet to be determined, I can only guess that I haven’t stepped up to it yet.
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JackManson wrote: February 10th, 2022, 1:16 pm
AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

Regards
DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?
It depends if we can agree on a definition of god.
The post title implies that you are not a god but could be. Yet the sentence you quoted implies that god is the creator.
If we can clear this definition the discussion can move forward
None of our sentences above implies that god is the creator. I am willing to stipulate that the creator is a zebra and that God looks like a forum member.
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Greatest I am wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:56 pm
AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

Regards
DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?

You propose that if you believe in the scriptures you have reached Godhood, but what happens to someone like me who doesn’t believe the scriptures?
Then I would think you are already an intelligent adult, and have advanced or elevated yourself above the foolish thinking, that holy books are anything other than myths.

You will have already matured away from foolish supernatural thinking.

You may already know that you are the only God you will ever really know.

Regards
DL
You’re correct about your first two points, however I am not a God in any respect. I can see, though, how an intelligent adult might be the only God that person will ever know—just not me.
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JackManson wrote: February 10th, 2022, 1:16 pm
AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

Regards
DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?
It depends if we can agree on a definition of god.
The post title implies that you are not a god but could be. Yet the sentence you quoted implies that god is the creator.
If we can clear this definition the discussion can move forward
Creator.

Who creates the reality we perceive, if not our own minds.

We, due to our DNA and chemically controlled thinking, cannot help but create the reality, be it real to others or not.

That applies to the the brightest minds as well as the dimmest.

We, like God, create our reality, confirming again that we are all Gods.

The Bible agrees.

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DL
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AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 2:31 pm

Even if you’re saying that someone/thing other than God created forum members in God’s image, it isn’t the definition we must deal with, but the image.

If not you, then more importantly someone/thing else must have seen God in order to create humans in the image of God.

So to cle
Fun fact.
The ancients believed that if you saw God, you would die.

Image as you recognize is a key word, and you know that I am in your image and you in mine, without either of us seeing each other.

That might be a really good descriptor for the ancients to have used.

Remember as well that Yahweh was and still is an androgynous god.

We might not want to look exactly as he/she does.

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AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 2:43 pm (must apologizing for spastic fingers)

So to clear up the definition of God is irrelevant to this thread. And the definition of a creator is unnecessary beyond to say that a creator is someone/thing that creates.

I’ll ask you emphatically, what happens to someone like me who doesn’t believe the writings? It may help you to know that I also don’t believe that we were created in God’s image. All this is to say that unless you can show otherwise, whether or not and when if I enter Godhood is mute. I offer you the chance to show me that this is applicable.
Is this for me?

First. Misunderstandings on definitions should be cleared at some point.

Most define God as supernatural, while Gnostic Christianity, using quotes like I have used, show God and Jesus as human, which follows Chrestianity and not the later usurpers, Christianity.

I can show in a natural way that you should step up to Godhood.

The God, or best possible ideal of a tiger, is a tiger.
The God, or best possible ideal of an ant, is an ant.
The God, or best possible ideal of a person is a person.

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AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 2:52 pm To answer the thread title directly and irrespective of the post preceding mine, I can readily say that I doubt I am a God, and as my destiny is yet to be determined, I can only guess that I haven’t stepped up to it yet.
Where do you look for, and who decides on moral issues for you?

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AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 7:38 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:56 pm
AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 12:05 pm
Greatest I am wrote: February 9th, 2022, 11:35 am
If one is created in God’s image, as you and I are, and can know good and evil, as most of us do, then if you believe the scriptures, you have reached Godhood.

Regards
DL
Have you ever met someone who was created in God’s image? What did they look like? Have you ever seen God? How do you know if someone looked like God?

You propose that if you believe in the scriptures you have reached Godhood, but what happens to someone like me who doesn’t believe the scriptures?
Then I would think you are already an intelligent adult, and have advanced or elevated yourself above the foolish thinking, that holy books are anything other than myths.

You will have already matured away from foolish supernatural thinking.

You may already know that you are the only God you will ever really know.

Regards
DL
You’re correct about your first two points, however I am not a God in any respect. I can see, though, how an intelligent adult might be the only God that person will ever know—just not me.
God was a human before stupid supernatural belief ruined the best religions going.

On Becoming an Adult - YouTube

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DL
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Greatest I am wrote: February 11th, 2022, 6:10 pm
AverageBozo wrote: February 10th, 2022, 2:31 pm

Even if you’re saying that someone/thing other than God created forum members in God’s image, it isn’t the definition we must deal with, but the image.

If not you, then more importantly someone/thing else must have seen God in order to create humans in the image of God.

So to cle
Fun fact.
The ancients believed that if you saw God, you would die.

Image as you recognize is a key word, and you know that I am in your image and you in mine, without either of us seeing each other.

That might be a really good descriptor for the ancients to have used.

Remember as well that Yahweh was and still is an androgynous god.

We might not want to look exactly as he/she does.

Regards
DL
Did you think that you could say that we are in each other’s image and just get away with it?

Have you not heard of DNA?

I am of the image of my parents’ DNA. After the time when your ancestors’ DNA was the same as my parents’ ancestors’ DNA, there have been a whole bunch of DNA changes such that I know that it’s very unlikely that I look like you.
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