Runewolf1973
Materialism/Animism
How terrifying!!! I would think you'd believe in God after it went away.
I am a little curious though. Why did you call out the name of Jesus if you don't believe in Him? I'm very interested in your answer.
You ask a good question. Here's the long answer.... Fact of the matter is that at the time the experience happened to me I was like 14 years old. At that time I had only been influenced by what I was told about God and spirituality through going to church. I had some belief in God, but nothing really made any sense to me. Later on as I started exploring religion and belief on my own, I came to my own understandings of what I thought God and spirituality was. I believe that everyone has their own personal way of approaching these things and no one should be forced to believe in anything. I am pretty much anti-religious now, but that does not mean that I don't believe in Jesus or the Bible, or demons and angels. It means that I have come to a different understanding of all of it. I believe that Jesus was a real person like anyone else, but more spiritually advanced than others. He was one of the "Awakened Beings" you could say. He tried to heal people and help them to understand things, but most either took it the wrong way or tried to kill him. Human kind could have learned a lot more from him. The bible to me has much wisdom and truth in it, but you're common preacher it would seem has no real understanding of it. They should not just go and preach and yell out verses from something they don't really understand. Science plays a huge factor. The bible actually is very close to what scientists talk about, but you have to be able to read through all the metaphors and find the truth. To me the book of Genesis with surprising accuracy (however simple) describes the whole process of evolution and even the Big Bang theory. When you really begin to understand it it all makes perfect sense. I'll lay it all out for you in both biblical (Genesis) terms and scientific terms..... I may be wrong about some technicalities, so just bare with me. It's just an analogy of mine.
"The darkness over the deep":
This is the energy of unrealized potential. It is like the energy of what could be, but is not yet realized. Call it negative energy.
"The spirit or "breath" of God":
This is the energy of will. It is in my mind what thought energy or instinct is derived from. The Universe you could say has a "mind" of it's own. Call this positive energy.
"The Waters":
These are the first forms of energy in the form of gases and other elements which swirled around and pervaded the early Universe.
These led to the formation of matter.
"Let there be Light!":
Try drawing out the symbol for infinity which looks like the figure 8. In a sense, infinity can be contained. But what happens when infinity itself can't contain all it's energy? Energy can't be destroyed. The energy changes. Notice how there are two open sides, but they are both connected. Imagine one side being the "unrealized potential" or negative and the other side being the "energy of will or spirit" positive. What happens when each side has so much built up energy that it can't possibly go anywhere else? They become ONE. It is right at the intersection of the infinity symbol where the two forces become so great and there is so much energy that they literally push each other together. When this joining happened, it generated so much energy that it literally "created" light. What happens when you push two strong opposing forces together, for instance negative and positive? It clashes and causes a transformation of that energy. Have you ever by accident joined the red "positive" to the green "negative" on your car battery? What happened? Sparks! This is just an analogy of mine so it may not be exactly right. Take it with a grain of salt.
And so, matter was created and with it was formed the big bang and all the stars and planets were created. In a sense, "God" did create the Universe. To me "God" is energy. But back in early times, people did not know what energy really was.
Just as in the Bible, life started out with the simplest life forms, plants, then the animals, and then eventually humans evolved. It is simple really.
The only difference I see is that the Bible was written in such a way that someone who did not know what a billion years was could somehow understand what was going on. The time frames are different. Rather than 5000 years, it was more like 5 billion years that the earth was created. But think about it, what is 5 billions years compared to infinity?
Sorry to make this so long. As you can see, I do believe in certain things, but I see them through a different light. Hope this makes any sense. Thank you for you're question. This analogy may be grossly over-simplified and probably full of technical flaws, but I never claimed to be an expert in physics, or the Bible. It is just a different way of seeing things.
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