Concepts of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 22:50 (4468 days ago) @ dhw

If we forget the bearded father figure and concentrate solely on mind, it would seem that God AND man are quantum phenomena. This might also help Matt to understand why some of us dislike the word "supernatural". Whatever exists, including quantum phenomena, has to be part of Nature, and so if psychic phenomena are real, they simply belong to those many aspects of Nature we do not understand.
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> Instead we return to the biblical claim that God made man in his own image. Bingo! The consciousness of God is the same quantum phenomenon as the consciousness of man, and there is absolutely no reason to suppose that all the elements that constitute the human mind ... reason, emotion, memory, imagination etc. ... are not reflections of the elements generated by God's mind. After all, you can't have consciousness without being conscious of SOMETHING and without reacting to that SOMETHING. So may I suggest that religions might not be that far out in their "anthropomorphic" concepts. I wouldn't go along with the idealized versions myself, but it's always consoling to think that he's bound to have a goodly ration of love and humour to balance the less attractive qualities. If he (she/it) exists.--Ironically, this is pretty much the same point I have been at for a while now. There was a book that I linked Matt a while back called 'Genesis, Zen, and Quantum Physics' that discusses some of the misunderstandings that come about because of mis-translations. For example, it doesn't say that Adam was made from dirt, it says he was taken from a multitude.(The word translated dust is the same word translated as many, multitude, or an uncountable number)It doesn't say that he was created, it says that he was 'fattened' or 'filled up'. As applied to this conversation, what was he filled up with? It says the 'breath' of God, which in Hebraic the breath was considered the essence, and was seen as a composite of what made a person what they were. So, in very well could be that the 'breath of God' being referred to that 'fattened' man was in fact consciousness. It would make sense then, in that respect, that our own mental processes were a shadow of Gods. All of this can be said without any reference to the old bearded man or anything of the sort.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.