We so often get caught up in defining God. Through the centuries the perception of God has changed for man. Man has usually bestowed the characteristics that he admires or fears on his God. I hear people call God vengeful, jealous, loving, benevolent and any other number of human characteristics. God can lift you up, God can strike you down. God can Bless you God can curse you. So it got me to thinking, who or what is God? I mean really. If I go by the characteristics placed oh him by different people I would have to say God suffers from multiple personality disorder. According to people God changes at a whim, so he has to also be bi-polar with bouts of mania and depression. Is God a person that sits on high, or is he/she/it something else?

Science is now acknowledging that there is an intelligent field that permeates all of creation. Stephen Hawking a world famous physicist calls it the mind of God, Greg Braden a philosopher and scientist calls it the divine matrix. Max Planck, the father of modern physics, in 1944 identified this field as the matrix,” he says that all matter the stuff our world is made of originates and exist by virtue of a force, we must assume behind this force is the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” Max Planck is one of the most renowned physicists to ever live. Was this science acknowledging the existence of God? They all agree that it is not in any form of a being.

 

Jesus had a name for this divine mind. John 14:24 “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” He called it spirit. Genesis 1:2, “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Of course Jesus spoke of it parables and figuratively as “father”. The Genesis story of creation is another parable and spirit is mentioned here (Genesis 1:2) the very first time in the bible.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia: “The O[ld] T[estament] clearly does not envisage God’s spirit as a person . . . God’s spirit is simply God’s power. If it is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly. … The majority of N[ew] T[estament] texts reveal God’s spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God. … On the whole, the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the spirit as a divine energy or power. … Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person.”

We may be comfortable to think of God in an anthropomorphic form. But when we do that we make the essence of the intelligence of this force less than it is. We make it human and with all the failings of human beings. We call for it to be selfish and as arrogant as we mere mortal beings can be. This is not the stuff of the force. Science and religion seem to now agree that God is not a he or a she, but an it. As stated above in the New Catholic Encyclopedia, “God or spirit is something, not someone. It is a divine energy.” Science has for years said that every thing at a base level is energy. Religion has said that God created us in its own image. Since God is a non-physical force then what is the image that we copy? Hmmm.

At some point mankind will have to shed its outdated and egocentric view of who God is. The force can not condone any of the isms that plague the world. It can not side with either destructive force in a war. It can however set forth laws and technologies that we can use to access it. The ancients knew about these laws. As mankind developed and became more sophisticated we have given credence to only that which our 5 senses can detect. Even with evidence to the contrary. Some day we will have to realize that God is not on the side of the righteous Christian, Muslim or Jew. God/spirit/force/universal consciousness is the same with each and every one of us. At that time we realize this we will stop creating a God especially for us. We are all special when we learn to access the divine.

Are you a brave soul?

Reginaldc is me @ http://Reginaldc.me

Scientist and philosopher Gregg Braden explaining the divine matrix a scientific view of what God is.

A discussion of the idea of the religious God. from the movie, “what the bleep do we know?”

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