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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (252968)6/16/2014 8:48:11 PM
From: T L Comiskey  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 540934
 
re...."I AM THAT I AM"

I read this a bit differently

As Meister Eckhart..said

'God Within....God Without...'

iow...the Kingdom of heaven..lies...within

and its spread upon the Earth..but men do not see it.................

its within you and without you

If One...cultivates...Wisdom ...AND..Loving Kindness

the individuals experience...become as if..

from The Kingdom of heaven..............................
(the Brahma Viharas....(The Heavenly Abodes..of both Hindu and Buddhist..mind forms)

I Am...(the experience) of..That

and the 'That' is also....in the Transpersonal Experience of...The One..

'The..I Am...'

en.wikipedia.org

Capice.....?????



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (252968)6/16/2014 9:40:40 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540934
 
Wharfy, can you make your link live? I tried going to the actual pdf file, full of formulas and stuff and have absolutely no idea what I was looking at, lol.

Or explain it.
..........

When you said "where did he come from, in the very first 'in the beginning..."?.....Do you mean in Genesis where it starts out ' in the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth'? If so, let me try this.
I AM THAT I AM would mean that God as a force of nature has always existed. Nothing came before Him and nothing created Him.

But he is a creative force and created heaven and earth.

For fun some time, read those 2-3 pages of Genesis describing the creation of heaven and earth and see how closely it tracks the sequence of events as evolutionists portray. They are quite compatible, so compatible in fact that I've decided NO ONE reads the Bible on either side. Not Christians, not atheists. Yet the squabble continues.