Excerpts   The Image

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"As a result, we cannot think of God outside of the bubble, because language says 'That has not been defined.'" IMAGE_QTR.jpg (13434 bytes)
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"We must understand that God does not share the other side of the coin with the devil, as our casual language and religious cultures suggest. This is not a 50-50 toss— but an eventual and certain eclipse by God and Their creations."

—The Human Struggle

… By creating us all in Their image, God gave us the key to Their presence. This discovery is a monumental instrument of tremendous importance and power. This means that when we come together in essence, we can embrace God personally and directly without intermediary deities, interceding prayers, or pointless human theatricals.

Do I see a deep puzzling brow on your face? You are uncomfortable accepting God's image, which shares essences with killers, rapists, molesters, and the back stabbers of the world. You and I admit that we collected everyone earlier, because we wanted to project the largest image of friendship.

How can we say that God possesses human characteristics that are worthy only of evening news? How can God fit in a local criminal lineup? We feel like hell is going to find us, simply for thinking that God shares the mind with terrorists and felons.

Your trouble, my friends, is human. Nonetheless, we bear the responsibility to recognize that which is of our essence, and that which is beyond us. To understand this is to realize that a human characteristic, say murderous, turns a person into someone who kills unjustly or unfairly. In God, however, such a characteristic does not produce a murderous God, because They command each and all essences by Their will.

God must encompass all good essences, as well as all that is evil. Rest assured it would take a God trait to turn God one way or another, while it merely takes a human trait to change you and me. How is it that people keep talking about being humble, and at the same time believe in a notion that humans have the potency to infect God?

A single human being is a miniature subset of God, one single frame from the film. The murderer among us represents a dark frame, or a pathological imbalance of the human condition. If we extract another frame from the film, we might see a different miniature with a different set of tendencies, suppose, to anger or a propensity to hurt. The human murderer in God is neutralized by Their comprehensive complementary essences.

This is the fundamental understanding that we have been lacking to comprehend the power of God's being. We have been refusing to see Them in the same mirror that we see ourselves. Because we are in Their image, God is positively the collection of ours.

People customarily discard the idea that God could be anything like us, as we are imperfect and visibly lacking any God-like feature. God is not a thief. God is not a liar, a procrastinator, a loser, or a name caller.

You see, people are conditioned to see themselves as worthless and dispensable soldiers of an instituted religion regimented by dogma. Many people have become accustomed, over the millennia, to the idea that we are foremost sinners.

Oh sure, "We merely look like God." At the same time, some people say that God is much more than physical. Do we look like Them only when They materialize in the flesh?

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