What key benefit are you speaking of?
I don't believe in a higher power than myself. Does my life somehow lack well-being? If so, how?
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If We All Became God?
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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I don't believe in a higher power than myself. Does my life somehow lack well-being? If so, how?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Why would limitations be applied to divinity?
McBell
Unbound
There are a great number of limitations applied to gods.
Some can not lie.
Some can not do evil.
Some can not do that witch is illogical.
Etc.
Aren't these human limitations? I'm not sure why one would assign human limitations to God. I already stipulated in the OP that Self-realization denies such limitations.
Why just "sort of?"
World would probably become eternal suffering for all. For those who don't like suffering, it would not be nice.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
Humans tend to frame their God-concepts in terms of power, because power and it's outcomes - wealth, status, hierarchy, etc. - are important to (some) humans. Anthropomorphising God might help us form an idea of Him/Her/It, but if God is a mystery beyond human comprehension*, these are likely to be misleading.
*A concept central to many theologies.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
Because we are, self evidently, human; and our perspective is, self evidently, subjective; while the world we experience is, self evidently, dualistic in nature.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
"Do you believe in a higher power, or something "larger" than yourself? If you answered yes to either of these questions, according to recent research, chances are you have better mental health and well-being than people who would answer no."
Why You've Got to Have Faith
Believing in something bigger than yourself can be good for your mental health.
The usual baggage that comes with the word God.
Perhaps God is not the right term to use here.
Good thing it is only a hypothetical then.
Things are not always what they appear to be.
You left out the first of the "either" in the article:"Do you believe in a higher power, or something "larger" than yourself? If you answered yes to either of these questions, according to recent research, chances are you have better mental health and well-being than people who would answer no."
Why You've Got to Have Faith
Believing in something bigger than yourself can be good for your mental health.www.psychologytoday.com
Do you consider yourself religious or spiritual?
One can be religious and/or spiritual without believing in a higher power or something "larger" than oneself.GoodAttention
Well-Known Member
Ah dualism...if only my mouth was an eye so I could reveal your mystery.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
GoodAttention
Well-Known Member
For good reason.
McBell
Unbound
Are they?
No one who makes the claim that God can not lie is putting the limit on humans...
I have no idea why gods have limits placed upon them.
So it thus seems we are using different ideas of 'god'.
Which is no big deal, just wondering.
McBell
Unbound
The eye does not see its own nose?
Or is it the eye does see the nose, your brain deletes it from your vision?
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
I can see my nose quite clearly. Tempted to make a Jewish joke here, but don’t wish to offend anyone.