tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9122860.post110188771111947817..comments2008-04-04T05:20:38.879-05:00Comments on Random Thoughts: Rambling About ReligionAlan Beggerowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319550956740738799noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9122860.post-1101953534666771992004-12-01T20:12:00.000-06:002004-12-01T20:12:00.000-06:00The history of my faith and spirituality is not ex...The history of my faith and spirituality is not exactly like yours, but I too have become much more progressive, both in my social and my religious thinking as I age....and while I was never a conservative, the biggest changes have come just in the last two years. I am now 75, and as an erstwhile Christian, I would throw out nearly everything that the average Christian believes about the person of Jesus. I still do see him, however, as the person who best of all showed us what God might be like, and his vision of deity demands a certain consistency which I do not see in most organized church thinking. For me, Jesus is probably no more a "son of God" than we all are, and that is not exclusive, but inclusive. God is no longer a being, for me, but a force of cosmic consciousness based upon love, and that is the direction in which I wish to grow. I find that cosmic love, in my meditation, to be just as personal, if not more so, as the old "Father" relationship I once perceived. As I am in God, God is in me, and in you, and in all that is. It is not necessary for me even to call that "God"....but I know that it is "Love." That's all there is, for me, and all that there needs to be. No other definition is adequate. ANY other definition presumes too much...or too little. Beyond stupendous, this kind of deity for me is worth living for......and dieing for. I can grow in it. I can live with any kind of condemnation that humankind might throw at me. Without any modesty or presumption of superiority, I am God. There is no dualism for me. There is only incompleteness....lack of readiness to accept. I am God. So too, are you. I am happy with that. How could I not be?Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18098617132511851542noreply@blogger.com