What? I ascribe to Christianity. also to dualism so I believe in soul/spirit. I believe the Bible is inspired. I'm strongly leaning towary guided evolution.
Sometimes it is hard to tell, when Christians relate and agree more to unbelievers than other Christians.
You “believe the Bible is inspired” by what?
In dualism: 1. soul/ 2. spirit. Which part in “dualism” is the part that has the capacity to connect with the truth and reality of God; is it the soul part or the spirit part?
“God is one” what?
God's reality is everything. His kingdom is a priority but then so are the lost who are not citizens of his kingdom.
If God's reality is everything, then does this include sin and what do the “lost” have to do in order to become citizens?
If "God's reality is everything", then does His reality include sin and what the “lost” have to do in order to become citizens of His reality?
There are two realities, the Spiritual reality - God vs Satan and the natural reality- the natural world --God know fully both realities.
God's Kingdom = reality. God permits only One reality and that's His. And we do not get to tell God what is truth and reality, rather we as His children are just along for the ride, we just get to know it through believing-as-Christ believes in Him. And Satan doesn't exist in His reality (Kingdom), rather Christ has abolished him to the abyss and he inhabits the nothingness of lies and delusion that inhabit unbeliever's unbelieving mind.
Even physicality requires a Believing Mind in order to have a means and place to exist and occur, because outside of a Believing Mind not even physicality can be known to exist or occur. How much does the truth matter to you?
So, can a physical occurrence be known to exist or occur without a believing mind to occur with or exist in? I know of none. And the most powerful things that exists and occurs is the ONLY thing that is capable of knowing of its own existence and occurrence; and that thing is a Believing Mind.
The natural world/reality is real and it equates to the physical world in which we live as did Jesus. Jesus as God existed in this physical world as a physical man like you.
Actually in God's reality (Kingdom) there is only One thing that makes things “real” in existing and occurring and that is a Believing Mind. And the “natural world” or what I refer to as physicality is nothing without a way and place in order to be known to exist and occur.
Is physicality able to be known to exist or occur without or outside of a Believing Mind? No it isn't. And everything that is true in existing and occurring in reality relies upon a Believing Mind for its existence and occurrence. And the Truth Matters.
And no, Jesus didn't exist as God in the “physical world as a physical man”, because that's not how Jesus existed.
Rather, Jesus was/is a spirit man who is the truth incarnate in God's reality and in His children, because the truth and reality are Spiritual in nature and not physical, they can only be known to exist and occur in and with a believing mind and nowhere else. And it is ONLY the Spiritual truth part Christ that believers in him experience God's truth and reality; in believing as Christ believes in order to share in the truth and reality of God. As this is how believers share our lives with other believers, when we believe as one another believes we get to share in the same reality; this is what it is to be in relationship with one another and God-guided.
The scriptures attest to natural revelation. Look up in any systematic theology book.
If you means physicality when say "natural revelation" then you are mistaken, because it is only a believing mind that can have and hold "revelation" from God. As our physicality place no part in our propensity for the revealing of God and His reality, as it is only a believing mind that is able to know and experience the revealing of God.
And here is 600+ Bible verse attesting to this.
Psalm 19:1-4
The heavens are telling the glory of God,
and the firmament[ proclaims his handiwork.
2 Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge.
3 There is no speech, nor are there words;
their voice is not heard;
4 yet their voice goes out through all the earth
and their words to the end of the world.
Rom 1: 20 20 Ever since the creation of the world God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been seen and understood through the things God has made.
All this means is that God is invisible to our physical senses, but it isn't our physical senses that have the capacity to know and experience the truth and reality of God to begin with. But it is ONLY in and with a Believing Mind that can know and experience the truth and reality of God. And neither is belief nor a mind in being the spiritual part of man visible or knowable to our physical senses, a believing mind exists and occurs in reality, but it only accessible in and of itself and outside of itself unknowable. It is only a believing mind that can access “knowledge” and understanding and without a believing mind is there nothing possible. Understand?
They do understand the natural world through their senses (which God designed) but not the spiritual world.
Illogical, as we can't know or understand anything about anything including “the natural world” without and outside of a believing mind making it exist and occur to us.
I don't understand what you mean in the red bolded portion.
What? I don't understand this sentence either.
Unbelievers disbelieve that belief is capable of making the truth and reality known to us.
What you believe about me doesn't matter. The only opinion I care about is what God has to say about me.
Well I know how God makes His truth and reality known to believers and unbelievers don't. And you seem to be struggling in this area.
I believe God is Spirit also. His mind would be filled with truths about the past and present and maybe beliefs about part of the future if open theism is true.
No, that's not the way God's truth and reality works.
His Believing Mind fills us with His truth and reality. And in His reality eternity exists and can only be known to exist and occur when and where “the past” and future no longer reside, because eternity can only be known to exist and occur in believing mind that believes in a constant and everlasting nowness or in other words how consciousness is known and experienced only in the present tense. Understand?
Anyway, thanks for your thought provoking post.
