Comments on: God. Person or Source? http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/ Rethinking reality as we know it Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:39:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Jeffrey http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1280 Jeffrey Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:52:51 +0000 http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1280 ked, that's probably the best reasoning for belief in the trinity that I've ever heard. cool stuff. chelsie, um...whoa. very cool thoughts back and forth with you and ked. one question I asked your dad the other night was, "is there a difference in being eternal and being infinite?". ked, that’s probably the best reasoning for belief in the trinity that I’ve ever heard. cool stuff.

chelsie, um…whoa. very cool thoughts back and forth with you and ked. one question I asked your dad the other night was, “is there a difference in being eternal and being infinite?”.

]]> By: Ked http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1276 Ked Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:37:07 +0000 http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1276 I hope I didn't come across as defending the idea that God is the sum of all humanity. Personally, I don't align with that idea. I was just stating, that if we were the sum of God, and that God IS truly love, and that our death was a step towards completing God as a unit, it would imply that humanity is a necessary component to both god and love - meaning that if/when humanity ever ceased to exist, so would god. I would echo your thoughts Chelsie and say that God created out of love. If He truly is love, how could he function outside of anything but an act of love? IMHO I hope I didn’t come across as defending the idea that God is the sum of all humanity. Personally, I don’t align with that idea. I was just stating, that if we were the sum of God, and that God IS truly love, and that our death was a step towards completing God as a unit, it would imply that humanity is a necessary component to both god and love - meaning that if/when humanity ever ceased to exist, so would god.

I would echo your thoughts Chelsie and say that God created out of love. If He truly is love, how could he function outside of anything but an act of love? IMHO

]]> By: Chelsie http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1272 Chelsie Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:42:40 +0000 http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1272 Perhaps God's love of the idea of man produced man-essentially, love creating a loving creation. I know of several folks who are in love with an idea-think of democracy, for example. I don't know that the object must be in human form....hmmm... if God, as Love, was to cease to exist after humanity died out with the same assumption you made, Ked, would it make sense to say God is a form (metaphor/symbol) of Love created in our humanity, disappearing upon our reunion with formless Love (death)? ? ...interesting take on the Trinity... Perhaps God’s love of the idea of man produced man-essentially, love creating a loving creation. I know of several folks who are in love with an idea-think of democracy, for example. I don’t know that the object must be in human form….hmmm…
if God, as Love, was to cease to exist after humanity died out with the same assumption you made, Ked, would it make sense to say God is a form (metaphor/symbol) of Love created in our humanity, disappearing upon our reunion with formless Love (death)? ?
…interesting take on the Trinity…

]]> By: Ked http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1133 Ked Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:40:53 +0000 http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-1133 I was just tagging a thought onto the end of the "Or" statement. If indeed we collectively make up God, and upon our death we are then reunited with ourselves (the continued reuniting of the "big kahuna") there would then come a point where all that is God would be reunited and therefor without an object to love. Unless of course you believe in reincarnation - in which case you would love all living things as yourself because they are in a sense - you. But I'm not Buddhist (although they could sure teach us all a thing or two about loving). I believe God is love - which would require that I believe He was Love even before humanity, before land and sea, before heaven and earth, before light and dark, before angels and the fallen... which is why I believe in the Trinity - each member of the Trinity provides to the other something to love - the birthplace of perfect love. Great blog btw. Keep it up. I was just tagging a thought onto the end of the “Or” statement. If indeed we collectively make up God, and upon our death we are then reunited with ourselves (the continued reuniting of the “big kahuna”) there would then come a point where all that is God would be reunited and therefor without an object to love. Unless of course you believe in reincarnation - in which case you would love all living things as yourself because they are in a sense - you. But I’m not Buddhist (although they could sure teach us all a thing or two about loving).

I believe God is love - which would require that I believe He was Love even before humanity, before land and sea, before heaven and earth, before light and dark, before angels and the fallen… which is why I believe in the Trinity - each member of the Trinity provides to the other something to love - the birthplace of perfect love.

Great blog btw. Keep it up.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-983 Jeffrey Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:38:45 +0000 http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-983 Ked, I think you brought up a <i>great</i> point about love requiring an object. However, I also hear you saying that if God is Love he would cease to exist upon the end of humanity as we know it -- which seems to imply that God is not Love. Do I interpret your comment correctly? If you do not feel that God is Love, do you mind sharing your feelings as to what God is? Ked, I think you brought up a great point about love requiring an object.

However, I also hear you saying that if God is Love he would cease to exist upon the end of humanity as we know it — which seems to imply that God is not Love. Do I interpret your comment correctly?

If you do not feel that God is Love, do you mind sharing your feelings as to what God is?

]]> By: Ked http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-883 Ked Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:48:16 +0000 http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/2007/03/16/god-person-or-source/#comment-883 Its a slippery slope when we forget that love requires an object - from one to another. Love doesn't exist without more than one object. God doesn't love the idea of man, He loves man. So, if God is love even when we reach the end of humanity, He would cease to exist; assuming our death is nothing more than the reuniting of God Himself. Its a slippery slope when we forget that love requires an object - from one to another. Love doesn’t exist without more than one object. God doesn’t love the idea of man, He loves man. So, if God is love even when we reach the end of humanity, He would cease to exist; assuming our death is nothing more than the reuniting of God Himself.

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