We are created in love. This love does come out for others in traumatic situations: a soldier falls on a grenade to save his buddies, a man jumps into the ocean to help someone who can’t swim, when the towers went down, thousands came to help, many giving their services free for all. It was a huge outpouring of love and compassion. Yes we are basically good. We act bad when we fear.
As for the people you named they were not totally bad, some good came from them, but the harm they did will be finding its way back to them in another lifetime. No one escapes the law of attraction.
How does this work if someone believes in a god that doesn’t follow these precepts? When you started this thread you claimed to want to know what other poster’s ideas about god were…but all you’ve done so far is tell us what “God” is all about. Are there actually other gods or aren’t there? If there are, who established all these rules you claim they have to follow?
There are lots of other Gods around, when I worked at the Hospital some of the doctors thought they were God. Yes I do want to know what others think about God. I have learned a lot from this thread.
There are many Gods but only one All-That-Is, the creator of mankind, compassionate, loving and caring. The One I got all the rules from, actually there is only one rule. The law of attraction.
So there are many gods, but yours just happens to be The One That Rules Them All? Let’s see: You’ve given your god a special name, created a heirarchy of lesser gods, and created rules for them to follow.
Congratulations-You’ve justed started a religion.
In some cases, except for ones when people act badly for other reasons.
This law of attraction stuff doesn’t seem to square with the God you’ve been describing. This God does judge and punish, it’s just kicked down the road a bit into a future life, after memories have been erased. How does that fit with the earth-as-arena-for-spiritual growth stuff? Now you have people being punished by god for things they did in another life, which have nothing to do with the life they are in now, and they are supposed to discern a law from this chaos and follow it?
Personally, I have such a severe god complex that I genuinely can’t imagine myself being in any way seperate from any sort of creator or god figure. As far as I’m concerned, you’re all a constant creation of my will, which I myself am also a creation of. I seperate myself from that on purpose, so as to be able to experience life as a man and not a god. The notion of “me” will one day die, but I self-identify with the core nature of the universe itself, making me seem to myself to be immortal and eternal. I don’t mean this in an individual or dualistic way in the least. Put simply - my God is all things. I am a thing. Because of that, I’m an expression of God just like anything else is.
The positive upshot of feeling that way, is that I -always- keep the viewpoint of “everything is as it should be.”
Once a person takes full responsibility for their own choices and actions it will make sense. The law of attraction can not be changed by God it comes with the Universe. Yes God can not do anything He wants anymore than we can because He came up through the same learning procedure as we will. Just that He knows all unless we create new knowledge then He learns from us. It is a relationship we all enjoy.
You can say a lot of things, it seems…most of them equally valid. You’ve determined that there are a heirarchy of gods that have to follow certain rules, you’ve put forth that one of them is in charge, and you’ve given her/him/it a pretentious name. In what way is this not a religion?