A Life Devoted to God

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A life devoted to God is a beautiful thing. You don't need to teach it in school or even to your own children, or share it with your wife. You can try to share it on ET, but it's probably lived best just privately. If God is so great and satisfies all our needs then why do we feel the need to share His love? If God is so complete then why when I find Him do I need to find others who have also found Him?

In otherwords, If God is complete, why do when I find Him I still have needs? Most notably the need to share?
 
Perhaps contrary to certain conventional arguments.

God may be forever something that could be never ever completely knowable and observable to humankind!

Otherwise that is not God!

Therefore people humbly could only keep seeking God, find meanings of life, feel occasional enjoyments gracefully, and share their experience just sometimes.

Just 2 cents!

OddTrader said:
It seems we know quite well the knowable and observable!

Apparently we've just started to learn/study how much we Don't even know Yet about the not-yet-knowable and not-yet-observable by today!


Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

Assuming that the standard model of cosmology is correct, the best current measurements indicate that dark energy contributes 68.3% of the total energy in the present-day observable universe. The mass–energy of dark matter and ordinary (baryonic) matter contribute 26.8% and 4.9%, respectively, and other components such as neutrinos and photons contribute a very small amount.


Estimated distribution of matter and energy in the universe[22]

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Cosmic microwave background

The existence of dark energy, in whatever form, is needed to reconcile the measured geometry of space with the total amount of matter in the universe. Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies indicate that the universe is close to flat. For the shape of the universe to be flat, the mass/energy density of the universe must be equal to the critical density. The total amount of matter in the universe (including baryons and dark matter), as measured from the CMB spectrum, accounts for only about 30% of the critical density. This implies the existence of an additional form of energy to account for the remaining 70%.[19] The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) spacecraft seven-year analysis estimated a universe made up of 72.8% dark energy, 22.7% dark matter and 4.5% ordinary matter.[4] Work done in 2013 based on the Planck spacecraft observations of the CMB gave a more accurate estimate of 68.3% of dark energy, 26.8% of dark matter and 4.9% of ordinary matter.[23]
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ETcallhome said:
A life devoted to God is a beautiful thing. You don't need to teach it in school or even to your own children, or share it with your wife. You can try to share it on ET, but it's probably lived best just privately. If God is so great and satisfies all our needs then why do we feel the need to share His love? If God is so complete then why when I find Him do I need to find others who have also found Him?

In otherwords, If God is complete, why do when I find Him I still have needs? Most notably the need to share?
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Matthew 28:19-20

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
 
I had a housemate a long time ago who was relieved of his idealism after entering the seminary when some of the people around him took more than a brotherly interest. He went the secular route, earning a doctorate in medical ethics.
 
Wallet said:
Matthew 28:19-20

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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imo, Jesus also said, There is only One Teacher - The Father. He asks people it's better not being anyone's teacher. He said The (Human) Spirit will teach us individually after he left the world. Roughly.

He had got many friends for fellowship, when he tried to shared/ explained his theory of Liberty (salvation) from God to others for equality and gifts.

He said/mentioned, I am not your Master.

If he really wanted others to follow exactly what he expected them to be his disciples, he would have written up some books, but he didn't! (Just like a Buddha in ancient time, only spoken words.)

For the letters kill, sometimes due to very serious arguments within-oneself or among-people or judging-others, but the Spirit gives life!

He firmly believes the Human Spirit as one of the gifts from God will teach everyone directly, as long as the person believes in God!

Most importantly, God's rains are for all souls and everyone equally/ fairly/ indiscriminately! Rather than only for believers exclusively! Even for someone who hates God, momentarily or else!

He and everyone of us is equally a son of God! He believes the same God as the Jews of the time believe. Same God as many others of the time believe, according to the book of Acts.

The same God Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, etc. believe today!

My 2 cents!
 
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" If he really wanted others to follow exactly what he expected them to be his disciples, he would have written up some books, but he didn't! (Just like a Buddha in ancient time, only spoken words.) "

Books in ancient time were not only expensive, only affordable by wealthy elites.

But also perhaps partly because the poor citizens, who are usually some disadvantaged and without education, in the ancient time were usually the people who cannot read letters.

Leaving the books (written letters) to be interpreted by anyone without a pure and decent mind could produce unexpected/biased manipulations. Serving a self-interest purpose!

Just 2 cents!
 
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I like a life devoted to God. "devoted" kind of sounds psycho or excessive though to use.

I believe everyone should have a religious/spiritual side though...it instills good values and groundness and calmness and pride and purpose. :rolleyes::)
 
Imo, Jesus is a systems thinker (long-term and systemic), and God is a huge system of universes, including us.

When believers of God have been trying to define the God they believe by their Holy books, which at the same time limit what God is. Jesus didn't!

I think Jesus identified himself the same as everyone else, whether or not a believer of any Holy books.

The God Jesus believes is far far beyond all the contents that all kind of Holy books could cover.

Nowadays people may apply various physical sciences, any traditions of religion, and
all schools of philosophy, trying to define and understand what is God. The God that Jesus believes should be far beyond all of these intellectual and intelligent findings.

Logically a follower of Jesus should naturally believe also the same God that Jesus believes. Rather than any other form of God promoted and limited by certain orthodox religion traditions.

What's the point if a follower of Jesus believes in a God that is quite different, dogmatically and theologically, from what Jesus used to believe! ?

What's the logic when someone strongly believes the very same God as what Jesus believed, (s)he could be marginalised by other followers of Jesus! ? A bit similar to Jesus was prosecuted by the believers of the same God!
 
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Imo, Jesus is a systems thinker (long-term and systemic), and God is a huge system of universes, including us.
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Therefore, Jesus says, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me.

That means Jesus is part of God!!! (This basically resolves a very important issue for reconciliation of God definition!)

And interestingly, each of us, whether a believer or not, is also part of God too!!! (Practically each of us is actually and physically part of the universes!!!)

2 cents worth!
 
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OddTrader said:
If he really wanted others to follow exactly what he expected them to be his disciples, he would have written up some books, but he didn't! (Just like a Buddha in ancient time, only spoken words.)

For the letters kill, sometimes due to very serious arguments within-oneself or among-people or judging-others, but the Spirit gives life!
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Similarity: " The Koran was compiled in 650 A.D. " only after (Mohammed) " He marched on Mecca in 630 A.D. two years before he died, ... " .

Q http://beforeitsnews.com/alternativ...reated-islam-and-why-they-did-so-3109298.html

Mohammed Mustafa was born in 570 A.D. – died 632 A.D.

Caliph Omar became Caliph in 634 A.D. upon the death of Caliph Abu Bakr, only two years after Mohammed’s death and sixteen years before the Koran was completed. He captured Jerusalem and had the mosque built – the Mosque of Omar or Dome of the Rock.

Mohammed’s dad Abd Allah died before he was born; his mother Aminah died when he was six; his grand-dad Abd Al-Muttalib when he was eight. He was then looked after by his uncle.

Mohammed married Khadija, who was a Roman Catholic, when he was 25 and she was 40. Her cousin was called Waraquah and was also a Roman Catholic Meccan.

The most famous of Mohammed’s four daughters was Fatima, after whom the Moslem conquerors named the place in Portugal where, in 1917, the young girl had three visions: the third of which the Vatican has never revealed, because it was from God and was against them and their evil ways.

Mohammed was visited by Gabriel in a cave on Mt. Hira in 610 A.D. at age 40.

Mohammed said, “Satan touches every son of Adam the day his mother beareth him (Revelation 12:4), save only Mary and her son (Jesus).”

Mohammed fled to Medina in 622 A.D. after Khadija’s death.

He marched on Mecca in 630 A.D. two years before he died, and four years before Omar became Caliph.

The Koran was compiled in 650 A.D.

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