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3 GOD
There is only one God, who manifests under many different names
and faces. No matter how great our conscious knowledge and understanding,
God is beyond our conception.
Somewhere between the finite reality which we perceive and Infinity
is the boundary of God's realm. We allow our minds to travel as
far toward Infinity as we can, which is nowhere at all, then we
define everything beyond the boundary of that which we can understand
and conceive as God.
It seems to us that few happenings in our universe are totally spontaneous.
Laws of cause and effect create the tangible and intangible realities.
God is the totality of all the unknown common denominators of cause
and effect.
God can be defined as everything that we do no understand. For example,
when we did not understand the nature of bacteria, we thought people
became sick and sometimes died because it was God's will. We now
know that the cause of disease is, in many cases, bacteria and we
act in a manner that will eliminate or control the germs. We no
longer attribute the resulting illness to God.
When we did not understand the paths of the moon, the planets and
the
stars, we drew a picture of the universe with humanity at the center.
The
stars were just a canopy above the earth. We now know that starry
canopy is infinite and that heaven is not a particular place. We
now realize that some of those stars are really galaxies and maybe
even universes.
Scientists believe they will soon formulate a unified theory of
the physical universe. However, they have not even begun to theorize
about the Infinite void into which our universe is expanding. They
cannot even begin to conceive of what it is that envelopes the entire
physical universe.
As we move forward in time, we bring into consciousness more and
more knowledge regarding our reality. Consequently, that which was
once attributed to God becomes knowledge and understanding and that
knowledge and understanding pushes back the boundary of that which
we do not know or understand and continue to define as God.
Our knowledge and understanding continue to expand but the Infinite
Potential does not shrink with this knowledge. The mysteries of
the Infinite Potential are infinite. God will always be that which
is beyond our knowledge and understanding. Therefore, there will
always be a God,
regardless of the name we call God, no matter how great our knowledge
and understanding.
Inner peace comes when we stop using God as a justification to
perpetuate prejudice and disharmony among ourselves.
Inner peace comes in acknowledging that the Infinite Potential (God)
is one. That the Infinite Potential is beyond our conception, but
we are at one within It.
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