Bandit said:I also see that He wants to abide in a place. That place is not space or infinite time but in the hearts, spirit and mind of men who love Him and seek Him.
Are you saying that I understand God as dwelling in space or infinite time or is that just how you thought I was implying you understood God?
No that is not how I see it. I see the answers are infinite and unmeasurable to Gods wisdom and that is why I love Him and seek Him in all His ways. Ways that I may never fully understand, but I can try. Because He has given me His spirit and I believe that is what He wants us to do.
So what are God's ways based on Tanach? Are the ways by which He lives, the ways by which He acts upon the world, the ways by which He wishes us to act?
Man was made in Gods image, so there we have something else that can be looked at as to what God is about.
In Judaism tzelem is not understood as a reference to the physical, although I do not know how you understand it.
I see the whole journey of man from Adam to us as Gods pride and joy. God considers Man the highest being/thing He ever made. Higher than Angels.
Are we higher than angels, or are we capable of becoming higher than angels? Of course in Judaism angels are stationary because they have no free will, while man is capable of climbing higher through free will.
I did read your answers Dauer about God. And thanks for answering. We do see God quite a bit differently on some things. But maybe there is more common ground over time that we will share.
I am sure there is some overlap that gets lost in translation.
I see the bible different than most today. I find it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Not my sidewalk or driveway, but for spiritual eyes. I see the bibe as food for my hungry soul and water that quinches my thirsty spirit.
Not as in wheat bread or Evian water.
So what do you do with this food and water? Why?
The OT was a physical walk with God. The NT brought a better covenant and lets us walk in the spirit.
Would you care to present evidence to back that up or are you just going to make uninformed assumptions?
The way God worked in the OT is a little different today. I see that God literally wants to live in us, not just WITH or sometimes ABOUT, but all the time IN us.
This isn't something new. The shekhinah, God's indwelling presence, is an old idea.
The battles were physical battles in the OT. The battles I see today are wars in the mind and in spirit within individuals.
Are you entirely sure of that? Or are you generalizing again?
So I study the OT ways of God then I can compare the physical things from that time to the spiritual things of now. And I believe that is why we have the bible today as they did not have it then.
How do we have the bible today in a way they did not have it then?
I can never fully understand all of God. He is TOO BIG and vast.
Are you implying spatiality?
I will only ever know very little about Him compared to his mass wisdom. But everything I learn is joy that I cannot explain.
Some things need not go beyond experience.
How can you truly Love someone with all your heart if you do not understand any of there ways?
What are God's ways, that we should walk in them?
How can you fully please someone unless you know what they like and what makes them happy?![]()
It is one thing to know what someone desires. It is another thing to know their true nature. From my position on God, I would not assume to know what God desires, except perhaps an increase in oneness among the many creatures of the universe. So this means getting along, not all becoming alike. Helping one another. Anything else is for my benefit. Helping other people is for my benefit too, but not only.
In response to your other post, I would suggest you just go look through the same website I linked you to earlier and then come back wiith questions.
Dauer