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Originally posted by valkyrie
I don't know if this is going way too far out on a limb, but...
For those of you who believe in God -- what exactly IS God? Does God have a physical presence? Where is God?
There's this obscure but awesome movie called Vernon, Florida and in it, this guy is talking about God and (forgive me if I get it wrong because I haven't seen it for a while) a conversation he had with someone who didn't believe in God. He asks the guy how such and such could be and the guy said, "Well, that just happened." So the guy in the movie says to take "that just happened" and call it God instead.
Would that at all jive with your concept of God? If not, why?
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Hey valkyrie - This is
the question. It is what separates sects, denominations, etc. There are those who believe strictly in the God of the Bible...even among these people, arguments over theology exist but, in essence, the person of God is the same.
For those who brings outside texts (and other ideas) to their reading of the Bible, or do not follow the Bible consistently, God is a completely different person.
As for your last question, I would say God is the cause of what non-believers say is "that just happened." But, I wouldn't say that when things just happen, I call it God.
Here's the problem I see. Let's say we're all together in a black-walled room. Someone comes in and starts talking to everyone. Some people completely ignore the person and refuse to hear anything that he (or those who listen to him) says. They even put sunglasses on so it's even harder to see him.
The divide becomes greater and greater. Then the person - the one who came in and started talking to people - flips on a light switch and all the people who were in conversation with him see that the room is in fact red-walled; they just thought it was black-walled because the light was low. These people are thrilled and realize what was going on all along.
But the people with the sunglasses on don't see much change (they're aware that the other people are a lot more agitated but don't know why).
No matter how much the person tries to talk to the people with sunglasses, they just get more and more irritated because they don't see anything. It gets worse when the other people in the room - the ones who don't have sunglasses on - run around telling them all about the red room and a door they've found. The people with sunglasses begin to believe that the others have lost their minds.
Sometimes, someone gets...I don't know...a piece of cake. The people without the sunglasses had watched as the person gave the piece of cake to whomever. But, the people with the sunglasses didn't see the person at all and wonder where the cake came from.