Thread: Doubting my Faith

Originally Posted by xXSomeGuyXx

But, you thank god for them. I mean, what the hell. Give yourself some credit. God ddidn't do the work for that promotion. You did. You didn't get saved by God when you got in that accident. EMT's saved you. Don't ignore that, and explain how God did enough work in those situations to be thanked.

Adnd just another point, (before I forget lol) what about abuse? Why doesn't God stop it? Read "A Child Called It". God, God didn't do shit there!

I think the source of all this frustration comes from the belief in a God with personal and anthropomorphic attributes. Essentially, these are both the projections of the human ego, and the particular method of symbolic expression. This is what I have said in another thread, in a similar context:

Originally Posted by really

By research, I mean spiritual research. You can look into psychology, psychiatry and even language, cultural heritage and backgrounds, history, those kind of things. You can understand the dualistic ego, and evolution of collective consciousness - this is helpful. I'd recommend the best seller, "Power vs. Force" by Dr. David Hawkins. Details throughout many areas of science and the ego are contextualized for spiritual understanding.

Underneath all the major world religions he explains, the spiritual truth is the same. What the anthropomorphic symbolism and ritual dogma are, essentially is the illustration of the limitations of both communication and the linear ego/mind. God is not a person who therefore judges like a person. "God will smite you." Oh so God has human emotions now? "Can't eat certain foods." God wants us to go on a diet for him; heaven is restricted to vegetarians?? See the projections? The message becomes further clouded, when we accept the limited reality and fallacies of these small human ideas, and thereafter even more when we hypothetically judge the act of doing so, according to other ideals that are potentially out of context.

What is essential is all that matters. Truth has no such dogmatic "requirements" or any "desires/cares/contracts" and isn't "authoritarian" - because these would entail "exclusion", hence no forgiveness.. etc.

Originally Posted by Grod

It is hard to let go of fantasies. But look at it objectively before you write your next post. There is no god.

All you want me to do is adopt a viewpoint where God seems to be false. What you have to remember is that "looking objectively" is still looking. This is actually not an objective matter, but a spiritual matter.

Originally Posted by Grod

SomeGuy was right. Who should get credit for all that shit? Us! Who do we have to thank for winning that soccer game yesterday? Our coach, our team's hard work, our perseverance. Not god.

Please, thank God that your soccer game even exists. Thank God for your breath, thank God for your freedom. Thank God for your Life. Give thanks. Even if you are better off than others - they will still make their way to God. Who cares about your soccer game? You do, and who cares about what credit from who? You do, or for better terms, the ego does. The prideful ego. It doesn't realize that without God, nothing would exist. It thinks it is God, of course. Think of this Context, the grand Context that God is Reality itself.

Originally Posted by Grod

If you say your god has no opinions/demands/whatever, then why need he exist at all?

Do you think a God with infinite power and presence needs any demands? Do you think an all-Loving God would be troubled by someone's opinion?

Originally Posted by Grod

What does your god do for you? How does he affect your life? Go into detail.

My God is my Self, Buddha, Universe - all the same to me. The Context of my existence, the divinity and oneness of everything. This is essentially the same Truth that underlies the great religions and the great mystics/spiritual teachers.