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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (22771)	10/24/2005 8:54:18 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<Is omniscience a quality of "God"? Is omnipotence a quality of "God"?> yes, yes <Is God both good and evil? Or does evil exist independent of God's Will?> I would think that truth is like light... so there is only light and lack of light. Evil is simply lack of light. The Buddha says there is only one sin: ingorance... ie lack of light. All reside in the universe and are not separate from god... although humans for some reason have been given 'choice' to align with light or not...{discuss for 20 years? LOL} God is all forgiving... light {truth} can be accepted at any time. <Jesus believed that diseases were caused by demons rather than bacteria, viruses, imbalances, etc. Was Jesus wise? Was Jesus, "God"?> Since there were no such words as bacteria, virus, etc... why would it ever even be written about??? Jesus was a 'realized' master of the highest level (JMO) an 'avatar' like the Buddha, Krishna, and others. <Did Jesus rely on superstition, or did He rely on science?> Science is of the intellect... he was in a realm above that. <Where did Jesus pick up His ideas about "Hell"??> I don't know.... I asssume most of what was said simply reflected descriptions based on this realm even though it would presumably be of a realm in the non-manifest... or perhaps being reincarnated, which had no tradition in that part of the world, so Jesus probably didn't 'go there' as it was meaningless to those people. <Why are there so many contradictions and absurdities in the Gospels?> Because they weren't even written down for hundreds of years, and so passed down like my Kindergarteners "telephone" game, often probably by people of low levels of conciousness that had no idea what was meant to be metaphore {sword of truth or steel?} or anything. I don't know why this is so surprising to anyone, and these sects that take literal meaning out of some of this stuff is quite astounding actually. DAK