Intentionally Hidden (Religion)

by BBella , Sunday, March 31, 2013, 05:57 (4253 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained
edited by unknown, Sunday, March 31, 2013, 06:05

Tony, thank you for your indepth response. In times past, I could have, and probably did write or say pretty much the same words as you wrote in both posts to make the same points to others that you have made to me. Your words are giving me flashbacks they are that familiar. You can be sure, this information you expounded, better than I could have back then, IS very well understood by me. In some ways I feel we have viewed God thru the exact lense with similar ways of seeing. Is it uncanny or just one of those coincidence that just happens? -Just to get this out of the way, I do want to let you know, we can drop the word "religion" altogether. I left religion in the dust long ago. I have children older than that dust (my youngest is 17, my oldest is 40 and I have two in-between.) I've never felt burned by religion. I lived my life studying to see God past religion within the scriptures; thru the english, greek, hebrew and aramaic,and multitude of translations, concordances, root words, etc. Dedicating my life to God at 22, I did seek him with my whole heart - within the allowed boundaries. Whether I made those boundaries for myself or they were made for me, I'm not sure. Maybe that's what you mean by religion - the fence/box of the scriptures? -As I said in my first post, there is a place within me still reserved for seeing "God" in this way you have written in your posts. I have not abandoned it. But I have set it aside - not forgotten - but very much appreciated. It's been a great help and guide, and still remains for me, to this day, and even assists, always, within the place that I am.-To see God the way you wrote in the last few posts does take faith, any way you look at it. But for me, now, in the place that I am, it's not just a question of faith any longer, or even a faith in what. Would faith even be needed by the God that can clearly be seen thru that which manifests itself as creation without the words of man? I have yet needed faith in what I can now so clearly see. -Yes, it takes faith to believe what man has written about their encounters with God. Faith that these men had a relationship with a hidden, unseeable God that decides where, when and how to relate with man (man to man so to speak). Do we "need" their encounters with God, seen thru their filters, to know a God who can so easily be known and seen without knowing of their encounters and their information? I am finding I don't need faith in what is in the past. I can clearly see what is the here and the now. -Stepping back, what I see in the scriptures (as a whole) is an ever evolving God with multi-faceted faces that grew from childlike dictatorial ways and tantrums to a more mature allowing adult. And the last face (metaphorically speaking) that I saw from this God, was one that said to me, I have evolved past all of these faces, you go and do the same and stop rummaging for me in the past looking at my unevolved faces. And since doing so (leaving all words and ideas of the past about God behind), I have yet to run across (hide nor hair - as we southerners would say) of the God of the scriptures. Instead, I have found this fascinating malleable fabric of the all that is that I am amazed and intrigued to understand more about as I observe it in action, feel it and be it. -If you take away everything you know about God that you have learned thru words and others encounters that you've read or heard, what are you left with? That is what I see as God, if you would even want to use the word. I have yet to feel the need.