Reply To: What is God?

[Kyrani Eade]

“God as the Creator” is a very limited definition, IMO. God is far more than the Creator of the Universe. We cannot say what God is from the limitation of human intellect. The best we can do is say that God is the Ultimate Reality. (Note I am a theist but of no particular religious persuasion).

God as “the force by which everything evolves.” I disagree with this. A force is a physical, i.e., created. God is not part of the physical reality. The creation is contained within the Mind of God but God does not exist within the creation.

Everything evolves means everything changes through small steps.

From a spiritual perspective, I don’t believe that we are evolving but awakening. We, as conscious beings, are awakening, bit by bit, to the highest level of consciousness. The Fall of Adam and Eve was a loss of the higher state of consciousness. I don’t think that they had the highest level of consciousness, i.e., fully awakened, because if they did there would not have been a Fall.

From a physical body (garment) perspective, the body does make changes (genetic) but I don’t believe that it is chance, random event. I think intelligence is part of the process.

How do you arrive at “What is the mistake? Falling from pure Peace”?

I don’t know what you mean by “nothingness”.

My understanding is that the soul is non-physical and inconceivable intellectually, other than to say it’s primary quality is consciousness.

Do you take the original mistake as the Fall of Adam and Eve?

I don’t know what you mean here: “Heaven is Peace, thus Heaven is the nothingness of death.”

I think we can only say that Heaven is an abode, where souls have peace and bliss, but I don’t know that we can really say what Heaven is. I don’t think it IS peace. Also I don’t see any death other than the death of the body. The soul is eternal. It cannot die.