A new way of thinking about God

[dfnj2019]

So meaning is only derived from other meaningful things?

I don't think you're wrong, but I do think that wrapped within this surface web of interwoven meaning lies a core that cannot be reached by moving from one node to the next in the mesh of words, and that this core may not be meaningful in that sense but powerful ... and able to stir plenty of waves on the surface.

God is a word. I think we can at least agree on that. The word God means something. I think we can agree on that. What the word God means is purely subjective so it is up to each of us to decide the best possible meaning for the word God.

I am currently resonating with a type of meaning for God described on this Wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology

The only reason I reference the page is because I know people are obsessed with who is saying something more than what is being said. This idea is not my creation but a way of interpreting the Holy Trinity. I like the way God is defined in this video.

I like the way he describes how things return back to God like an electrical circuit.

 

[dfnj2019]

Transcendental means outside the boundaries.

Like fish cannot live outside their boundaries.

The boundaries of the Sun cannot be approached.

If God is a Cube or Cloud or Force-Field ---that is an "Impersonal" descriptor.
If God is his own persona ---that is an "personal" descriptor.

The details are for the seekers.

Are you suggesting semantic pareidolia idea for God. Meaning is in the mind of the beholder?

 

[dfnj2019]

Oh indeed.
Buddhism suffers the same, of the 32 marks to identify a Buddha, many are accidents of physicality (long ear lobes) and gender (male genitalia). To compensate for the atheist doctrine, we have the Amida Buddha and the Bodhisattvas which are regarded as de facto deities. People can't help it, the via negative is not strictly natural to the way we are wired.

"Buddhism suffers", great pun!!!

Oh indeed.
The intellectual concept of the Absolute, which for so long was the foundation of my every theological thought, is no more or less precise, correct or valid as that of the old man ... they are both forms of idolatry

I think many people idolize the words in the Bible without any regard to what the words actually mean.

 

[Arif Ghamiq]

"Buddhism suffers", great pun!!!



I think many people idolize the words in the Bible without any regard to what the words actually mean.

Do you mean an understanding of the Hebrew ? (and Greek I guess)

 

[Bhaktajan II]

rather than see that the common term is an analogy, it's like what it's trying to describe, it's not what its object is ... language is incapable of precise definition

That is why the Deity was on display in its Temple.

If Godhead is then "jealousy of impostors" would be defacto.

God's mysterious existence is such an example.

Can you guess [w/o my saying] Who is this with His woman?

The epoch of Idols were a Western phenomena.

And it became a bane of society for good reason.

Is use is for meditation.

 

[Cino]

Can you guess [w/o my saying] Who is this with His woman?

Krishna and Radha, but she's not holding a flower, ... mmmh?

Language creates things.