Oh the irony! In my lifetime the Left hated Reagan, Bush 1, Bush 2, Trump 1 and now Trump again! Utterly out of touch with your own hatred and hypocrisy!
Either way consciousness is a degree of transcendence; the observer is apart from even the observation of themselves. In theistic evolution there is an innate purposive potential.
It’s true that Christian theology was connected to Old Testament Judaism but Jesus expressly warned against it.
“1“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22And no one pours new wine into old...
Same God but understood differently. The God of Jesus made the agreement with Abram but the portrayal or conceptualization of that God is largely human as recorded in the Hebrew scriptures. They put lots of words in Gods mouth and credited behaviors to deity which were the doings of humans.
"In science the human self observes the material world; philosophy is the observation of this observation of the material world; religion, true spiritual experience, is the experiential realization of the cosmic reality of the observation of the observation of all this relative synthesis of the...
That’s one reason Jesus was rejected! People’s minds were too small and indoctrinated to conceive that The spirit God could manifest in subordinate deities.