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    The purpose of creation

    Yes, I like the analogy - once often used to describe a person in my religion - a vessel into which the divine flows, if/when we allow it to. We can shut it off.
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    The purpose of creation

    Interesting that you put it that way. One basic tenant of Swedenborg is that "religion is of life." By that it means that you can tell what someone believes in by the way the person lives. If you believe you should love your neighbor but let your trash blow into their yard, then you are not...
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    The purpose of creation

    Like Descartes did when he said, "I think therefore I am." That was him making sense out of the question of his existence....for example.
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    The purpose of creation

    No, by rational sense, I just mean does it rationally make sense to you? Can you reason your way to it?
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    The purpose of creation

    Well, I wrote something but that isn't even a tangible thing. Just an idea. I would actually postulate that the idea wasn't even my creation - but that would really be splitting hairs. I really do believe that all things are created by God. I was created by God but I am not a part of God in...
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    The purpose of creation

    For me God is all good and all truth, all love and all wisdom. He can and does only love us, each of us, the same. It is his divine design that we all live in heaven, living useful lives, to eternity in happiness. We can always chose to NOT live good useful lives and NOT live in heaven but it is...
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    The purpose of creation

    But you do have a religion - and you just summed it up above. At least for me, core beliefs ARE a person's religion. One of the definitions of religion is: "a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance." As a Swedenborgian, I also do not believe that the murder of Jesus...
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    The purpose of creation

    Of course you don't need to assume that there is a purpose to creation but how does that appeal to your rational sense?
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    The purpose of creation

    In what way are we all God? I personally certainly don't feel god-like. I can't create anything at all. I guess I am a Neo-Platonist as in the shadows on the wall of the cave. Do you identify with that at all?
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    The purpose of creation

    Yes, Akivah, that makes sense to me. But I think it is more than that actually because that only speaks to this natural life while we are alive in our natural bodies. I think God created us with a soul (which we can feel and sense by being able to think and love). And I think that soul, which...
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    The purpose of creation

    I actually think that everyone has a "religion." You just said what yours was - I mean, I think you did. That it is about your family. Do you have a connection with your family spirits? What does it feel like? What do you think your "origin" is/was?
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    The purpose of creation

    If that is all it is - it is very "me" centric, don't you think?
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    The purpose of creation

    If there is no creation then what are you? I guess you think Descartes was wrong: "I think, therefore I am." I must say that if THIS is an illusion then it is quite something! :-)
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    The purpose of creation

    As a Swedenborgian I am taught that the purpose of creation is a heaven from the human race. What does your religion teach you? What makes sense to you?
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