Didn't God have Oneness "In the Beginning"?

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Originally Posted by Tom

God had complete and perfect Oneness and God - being perfect - could not be improved upon. Actually, my question is this - why couldn't He have kept His mouth shut?

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Maybe because it wasn't (and maybe still isn't) perfect and it could (and maybe still does) improve itself. :?

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Originally Posted by Jaco

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Originally Posted by Tom

God had complete and perfect Oneness and God - being perfect - could not be improved upon. Actually, my question is this - why couldn't He have kept His mouth shut?

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Maybe because it wasn't (and maybe still isn't) perfect and it could (and maybe still does) improve itself. :?

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I guess we all don't define God the same way.

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Originally Posted by CFTraveler

I guess we all don't define God the same way.

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Given the number of different religions and belief systems and the variety of "viewpoints" within specific religions and belief systems, yeah, there are different definitions of god. :wink:

I'm only just getting started. I had to pause, though, and ask why it is that God seemed to have exactly what modern spirituality seems to be striving for - and God shatters it into so many pieces?

I just read this, and thought of this thread:

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We are consciousness becoming conscious of itself, the Self experiencing the Self, the Divine forgetting who it is so that it can awaken to the incredible joy of remembering who it is, more and more and more.

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In case anyone is interested, I read that here: http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlight ... -a-school/

God wanted more since God knew that growth would be infinite.

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Originally Posted by Tom

I'm only just getting started. I had to pause, though, and ask why it is that God seemed to have exactly what modern spirituality seems to be striving for

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If you assume that god is a perfect onennes and everythingness, then it would include everything what modern spirituality seeks, everything what the other spiritualities seek and have sought, and everthing else the any kind of spirituality is not seeking, and everything else that is not spirituality.
So whatever you are looking for you will find it, since god is everything.

But if god is not everything, then either "he" has the properties the modern spirituality attributes to "him" and the modern spirituality has finally known the true nature of god, or “he” has not the attributes the modern spirituality gives him, and the spirituality's view is flawed in some way.
But the main question here is what do you mean by modern spirituality: what properties do you think the god has, and why do you think it has those specific properties?

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Originally Posted by Tom

and God shatters it into so many pieces?

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I am sorry, I do not understand what do you mean by that. Could you please explain what exactly do you mean? What is shattered?

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Whether you call it "separation" or "duality" it is generally regarded as bad. Or the Taoist thing, the One became Two and the Two became Ten-Thousand. Now all us tiny little pieces are trying to regain the lost Oneness.

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