Radiance3 wrote:
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Reading your statements, you certainly believe in god, but who is that god you called Supreme?
Thank you for the nice and intriguing question. You also ask a similar question below. I'm answering both of them at once:
I don't have any particular name for God. I often don't even call it "God". Most of the time I don't think directly about God. When I think about it rationally, I think God and nature are indistinguishable from each other. So in that rational sense, my name for God would be "Nature".
Less often, I have a kind of mystical or emotional thought about God. (Some of that probably goes on in my subconscious, even when I'm not thinking about it consciously.) Sometimes I feel that God is a friend, or that it (he/she/it) loves me as my parents loved me. To me, "God" is a personification of the best, most thorough and right being-ness. It wouldn't even have to be a god; it could simply be the best, most thorough and right being-ness, wh**ever that is. To me, God is a lot like my parents, but theoretically God would be better and more thorough, of course.
I could call God "the All", or I could call it "the best way". I sometimes call it the supreme being, which isn't exactly a name, unless one capitalizes it, like "Supreme Being" or "The Supreme".
As soon as I try to give a name to it, the name doesn't sound quite right. One person (Sri Chimnoy) referred to "The Supreme", which is probably about as good a name as there is for it, but I don't even like that name, and I don't even like the name "God". When _I_ say "God", it's probably not exactly the same concept as when somebody else says "God". I guess that to me "God" is a personal thing, sometimes like a feeling, and it doesn't work very well to talk about it a lot publicly -- people will often just misunderstand, anyway. And other people have their own personal ideas about what God is, and if they hear me talk about what I feel that God is, that probably won't sound right to them.
Radiance3 wrote:
There is only one specific god being a Christian.
I am not that kind of Christian, that refers to the specific God that's in the Bible, as the only one specific god.
I do have a Christian cultural heritage, so I have some familiarity with some of the words and ideas of Christianity, but I don't like to call myself a Christian (and probably am not one, by most Christians' standards). To me, Christians appear very specific about several things, and I do not believe all those specific things. For myself I feel it is better to be simpler than that, about faith and about belief. So I don't like to claim much knowledge about specific things, things which I either don't believe or don't know much about.
Radiance3 wrote:
I think you believe in god, who is that god you called Supreme? Please be specific. I am confused.
As a Christian, the only God I believe is Jesus Christ, who is seated at the right hand of the Father. That's why He is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, one God forever. That is what Christians believe.
Without specific name, my conclusion had reached a point that you believe in god, but I don't know specifically who that god could be. God luck, hope you find your way.
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Thanks.