To Love God, one must Love Truth more, above any
idea one has of God. All we consider God to be is an idea composed from
linguistic symbols in our mind, like any and all the other ideas we have
in our minds. So the best we can do is love an idea of God we have in
our own mind, more than any other idea we have in our mind.
What is Truth?
Truth is Nothing more and nothing less than symbolic formulas and equations in the mind which represent manifest realities in the mind. All that manifests in the mind is real to the one experiencing the manifestation. What we call "objective truths" are the manifestations most agree upon the nature of. These change over time and in different cultures. Something is no less real for only one person seeing it in their own mind.
Yet God says of himself, "I Will Be What I Will Be!" and that nothing is wondrous beyond God's Creative Will, leading to the conclusion that God is not confined by any ideas we might have about God's Creative Nature, or what God can and will do- or not. We are to love God even when our ideas of God are shattered by realities that shatter our ideas about God. It is This Kind of Love That Has Kept The Children of Israel Alive.
This in the only way our love of God can be put to the test.
Abraham is told to sacrifice the very son who is the manifestation of God's promise to bless the world with Abraham's seed, before Isaac has any seed of his own. What a paradox! Abraham didn't say, "But you promised...." Previously, Abraham argued with God because he believed God was about to be unjust and destroy the righteous with the wicked, in Sodom and Gomorrah. His idea of God was that God is Just according to his very limited and childish ideas of justice. But his FAITH evolved and he reached a level of FAITH wherein he loved God and desired to obey God even when commanded to commit what must have seemed even to him, a horrific and unjust crime.
Our ideas of God begin very childishly.
The Old Man in The Sky, The Father, The Loving Parent, who wants nothing but good behavior which is rewarded and who punishes bad behavior.
As we mature, we see the wicked flourish and the righteous die miserably. Some lose their faith and say there is no God, instead of integrating the discordant information and overcoming their cognitive dissonance by expanding the context of their contemplation. They begin to deny intelligent design because in their disillusioned eyes, creation is not only not intelligent, it now appears mindlessly violent and cruel. They kill the childish idea they have of God instead of Isaac. Yet all the wondrous evidence of God's Will manifest as Creation, remains. They just begin to ignore it and concentrate only on what justifies their disillusion.
Life becomes the Buddhist's illusion nightmare of endless suffering and
misery, remedied only by detachment, non involvement and the culturing
of ideas that when meditated upon, bring tranquility and bliss. They
refuse to acknowledge the singularity of The Creator of Karma with whom
one can communicate, and who commands us to tend to the Garden of Life
by cultivating engagement and involvement, this by actively
participating and improving all human institutions.
One cannot become like God.
God is The Creator and we are nought but created. This recognition is the essence of humility. The illusion of human creativity, the desire to take credit for what one does and makes and imagines into being, is the essence of Hubris.
The Buddhists are right however, that a state of mind is attainable, called Samadhi, wherein one continues to be engaged in improving the word by demonstrating in one's speech and actions, a love for all living things. They recognize that this doesn't happen as a result of human will.
What they don't recognize, is that the world is no illusion with all it's violence and suffering and crime, and suffering and violence and crime are divinely created with the intent to stretch one's mind until it expands and Loves the Art of It All, even while suffering in compassion with the afflicted.
Drama is Art and All Art is Divine.
On Good and Evil and Gardening....
First of all, dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not evil. The Holocaust was evil in my eyes and God was responsible for that, and it is my hope and faith and belief that I will see in my lifetime how The Holocaust, too, was an act of Divine Gardening.
That depends on what becomes of Israel.
The Atom bombs were also an act of Divine Gardening, but also a
human act of "gardening" that saved not only many allied lives, but
many more Japaneses lives and prevented far greater devastation of
property, were the war to have extended the time it would have taken to
conquer Japan on the ground. The Nazis considered killing Jews an act of
gardening too, let me remind you. But they were killing the trees that
gave the best fruit and cultivating "Wandering Aryans", a parasitic
plant that hates diversity. That is evil.
As for callingChristians stupid, well, they are. All blind obedience to dogma is stupid, done by any religious believers.
dog·ma
ˈ a principle or set of principles laid down by (a human) authority as incontrovertibly true.
All so called Divine scriptures, in all religions, were written by humans who presented themselves as authorities on Divine Will.
For me there is no authority whatsoever but God who speaks to me clearly and directly into my mind, mostly wordlessly, telling me what to do and how to obey Divine Will. Right now, in this instant, I am speaking to you wordlessly too. It is your voice in your mind that gives my words significance according to your values and unconscious agendas. Figure that out.
I am not stupid. I am the wisest man alive and would put Solomon to shame.
I am The Soul of King David, come again Corrected, as David's Son, The Messiah 1111 !
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September 29th, 2017
A Catastrophic Tragedy. Maybe Not!
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Jonathan Michael Robbins
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יונתן מיכאל רבינס
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| Loving God Looks Like One Is Taking Care of God's Creation |
What is Truth?
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| Truth is Never Stagnant. Like Life, It Grows, Is Diverse And Spreads Around |
Truth is Nothing more and nothing less than symbolic formulas and equations in the mind which represent manifest realities in the mind. All that manifests in the mind is real to the one experiencing the manifestation. What we call "objective truths" are the manifestations most agree upon the nature of. These change over time and in different cultures. Something is no less real for only one person seeing it in their own mind.
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| The Golden Equation? The Creator Is Our Lord! The Creator Is One! |
Yet God says of himself, "I Will Be What I Will Be!" and that nothing is wondrous beyond God's Creative Will, leading to the conclusion that God is not confined by any ideas we might have about God's Creative Nature, or what God can and will do- or not. We are to love God even when our ideas of God are shattered by realities that shatter our ideas about God. It is This Kind of Love That Has Kept The Children of Israel Alive.
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| Jews Got Their Reputation Because They Love God More Than Life |
This in the only way our love of God can be put to the test.
Abraham is told to sacrifice the very son who is the manifestation of God's promise to bless the world with Abraham's seed, before Isaac has any seed of his own. What a paradox! Abraham didn't say, "But you promised...." Previously, Abraham argued with God because he believed God was about to be unjust and destroy the righteous with the wicked, in Sodom and Gomorrah. His idea of God was that God is Just according to his very limited and childish ideas of justice. But his FAITH evolved and he reached a level of FAITH wherein he loved God and desired to obey God even when commanded to commit what must have seemed even to him, a horrific and unjust crime.
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| Sacrifice as An Idea Must Come To An End ! 1111 |
Our ideas of God begin very childishly.
The Old Man in The Sky, The Father, The Loving Parent, who wants nothing but good behavior which is rewarded and who punishes bad behavior.
As we mature, we see the wicked flourish and the righteous die miserably. Some lose their faith and say there is no God, instead of integrating the discordant information and overcoming their cognitive dissonance by expanding the context of their contemplation. They begin to deny intelligent design because in their disillusioned eyes, creation is not only not intelligent, it now appears mindlessly violent and cruel. They kill the childish idea they have of God instead of Isaac. Yet all the wondrous evidence of God's Will manifest as Creation, remains. They just begin to ignore it and concentrate only on what justifies their disillusion.
One cannot become like God.
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| To Be Like God? Hubris! Can You Create Something From Nothing? |
God is The Creator and we are nought but created. This recognition is the essence of humility. The illusion of human creativity, the desire to take credit for what one does and makes and imagines into being, is the essence of Hubris.
The Buddhists are right however, that a state of mind is attainable, called Samadhi, wherein one continues to be engaged in improving the word by demonstrating in one's speech and actions, a love for all living things. They recognize that this doesn't happen as a result of human will.
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| Enlightenment Comes To All Who Love Discovering They Have Been Wrong About Everything |
What they don't recognize, is that the world is no illusion with all it's violence and suffering and crime, and suffering and violence and crime are divinely created with the intent to stretch one's mind until it expands and Loves the Art of It All, even while suffering in compassion with the afflicted.
Drama is Art and All Art is Divine.
On Good and Evil and Gardening....
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| Without Hatred, Without Condemnation, Without Punishment, One Must Remove That Which Would Abusively Exploit |
First of all, dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not evil. The Holocaust was evil in my eyes and God was responsible for that, and it is my hope and faith and belief that I will see in my lifetime how The Holocaust, too, was an act of Divine Gardening.
That depends on what becomes of Israel.
As for calling
dog·ma
ˈ a principle or set of principles laid down by (a human) authority as incontrovertibly true.
All so called Divine scriptures, in all religions, were written by humans who presented themselves as authorities on Divine Will.
| Christianity is Essentially Dogmatic Idolatry |
For me there is no authority whatsoever but God who speaks to me clearly and directly into my mind, mostly wordlessly, telling me what to do and how to obey Divine Will. Right now, in this instant, I am speaking to you wordlessly too. It is your voice in your mind that gives my words significance according to your values and unconscious agendas. Figure that out.
I am not stupid. I am the wisest man alive and would put Solomon to shame.
I am The Soul of King David, come again Corrected, as David's Son, The Messiah 1111 !
_______________
September 29th, 2017
A Catastrophic Tragedy. Maybe Not!
29283812363938/11=2662164760358
Jonathan Michael Robbins
= 939=
יונתן מיכאל רבינס
You have this divine gift of conveying thoughts into beautiful words. Your writings are absolutely amazing. I often hear echos of my own thoughts in your messages.
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Please tell me how killing weeds can be an act of taking care of God's creation? Wouldn't this be to kill his creation we human don't like for to prosper his creation that we do like?
This is of course one example amongst many we constantly are engaged in.
All life is sacred, but is also opportunistic and exploitative. Of all living creatures to man is given the gift of the illusion that he participates in creation through husbandry, such as agriculture and cultural education. To participate in creation we have the illusion of free choice and the experience of consequence to as refine our choices, culminating in a love for all living organisms modified by the knowledge of a need to participate in the management of a harmony of ever more sophisticated diversity. That which would abusively exploit the nature of other living organisms against the expression of their character, making them suffer until their eventual death, must be "weeded out", like cancer cells and diseases and deadly viruses and psychopathic murderers...etc.
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