I like your definition of the god, I truly do and I agree to some parts, albeit you sound a bit naive with your belief in the ultimate justice.
None of what you said refers to the Bible, which presupposes that we take on his "spiritual likeness". So if we are given a free will, what exactly is taken after the god? You have kept on pressing this human's similarity with the god, but you're painting a very vague picture. Instead of informing me and answering my questions, you have resorted to shaming me with such phrases as this.
You’re spiritually blind, asking questions, but also have your fingers in your ears because you’ve decided that your own answers are good enough.
I have never put you down for your belief in your version of the god, and I have merely inquired into understanding the god through your words. Your tactic of trying to make me sound foolish won't work on me because I have played the part of the fool to begin with. I have assumed nothing from the beginning, yet you have resorted to so many tactics to divert the direct questions by saying it's semantics or that I'm spiritually blind. If anything, the more I inquire into you, I want to put myself further away from being affiliated with any faith of yours.
I'll ask again for one last time. And I'll give you a chance to answer it however you like and even disregarding the semantics. How are we taken after the god of yours?
The semantics is trying to use a one way definition of the word you chose in your initial question as though God is made in the image of man because one dictionary defined it as such. Forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical of a guy asking about God’s ability to eat and poop, as though that’s something important to our eternal salvation.
I say you’re spiritually blind; not to put you down, but because you cannot “see” what baptized commandment keepers can. We study this stuff and change our lives because the Holy Spirit gives us eyes to see and ears to hear. We see the world through the prophecies of Daniel, Nahum, Isaiah, Zechariah, and Jeremiah and see the prophecies fulfilled. We see the will of God vs the will of man on full display in the political/social/religious sphere. We see the boundaries get pushed. We see Sodom and Gomorrah, the sins of the pharaohs in Egypt, and the kings of Rome all over again. The world stage is set to break every commandment of God’s and usher in totalitarian communism.
Man has fallen a long way from the creation. Adam is currently much more adamah than adameh; but there’s a path to redemption and salvation. Many are called, but few are chosen. Why would you expect to scratch the surface of understanding; let alone experience the likeness to God when you reject Him? Hardened hearts only soften with repentance. If you want to experience the likeness of God: then repent and keep his commandments, and see how drastically your life can change for the better.
Do not dare say my life needs repentance, nor do you have any reason to be an authority of anything sacred just because you are an expert at rehashing a book that has not been revised for thousands of years.
God is certainly sacred, but if I have to read a certain book and attend certain ceremonies and listen to someone else explaining to me which part of the old book to follow, I don't deserve to know the real God. We humans have evolved year after year. There were times we didn't even have airplanes flying in the sky, but somehow that has become a norm. People have learned to fly, which is a new form of transportation that hasn't existed before. Yet, you're dealing with a book definition of God that probably has not been updated or included any new findings for thousands of years.
I give my due respect to God every day and cherish it as if it's the last moment I've been given by God. And I welcome any challenge and graciously accept any setbacks as moments I'm being tested by God. It didn't require solely the Bible to come to this conclusion, nor do I require any assistance to live true to the essence of God.
God is within and around us. You are part of him, and I am part of him. All of the little creatures you touch are part of him, as are the plastic bags and cigarette butts. At each moment of your life you are surrounded by God itself and we are merely separated perspectives that will find their ways home after the journey is done.
I don't expect you to agree with me, but you are living life as if someone else's supposed experience with God to be the only truth while I continue to evolve my definition of God. Needless to say, the definition I gave of God is subject to revision and updates as I experience more of life.
What good would corrupt men revising a book give us? Every modern Bible is revised. Every revision seems to further muddy the message.
I don’t know what ceremonies you think you need to attend, but a relationship with God does not require 501c3 church membership. He wants his children to seek him out.
All of us are in need of repentance. We have all sinned. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. His name יהוה means I am and I will be. This reflects his unchanging nature.
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