A thought....

[amonite.livejournal.com]

Searching for Bible passages looking for anything on multiplicity seems a dauntless task, but the following thought occured to me:

God himself is a multiple. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit...(plus he has tons of names :P)

And the Bible says we are made in the image of God - which I see as spirit wise, not physically since God does not really have a corpereal body (excepting Jesus walkign on earth)

Since three of our system are christian and the fourth believes in God, just chooses not to follow him, it has been something we have been thinking and praying about a lot.

But if we are made in the image of God, and God is a multiple (ok an all powerful co concious omnipresent multiple, but still :P)....then I suppose the most information I can find will be studying God and how he relates to himself, rather than pickign the Bible to see if I can find any hints or examples.

Perhaps everyone has the potential for multiplicity in some way -

If God is three spirits in one, then would not something made in that image be able to have more than one spirit while yet being whole?


Corda & Jenai

Comments

[amonite.livejournal.com]

Ironically there, Ishtar was a goddess with fertility as one of her aspects and quite promiscuous, wheras Mary was a virgin until Jesus was born. Ishtar did have a lot of different aspects though.

Althoguh I am not sure why the catholic church insists on her perpetual virginity, considering all the siblings Jesus had ^.^

I believe in angels and demons, but tht there is only one God. And that he is not evil. With the masy gods or all gods as one theory, evil aspects are incorporated into God's nature as well as the good.

Though Gods nature puzzles me. I do not see him as evil - but some of his 'just' actions are simply that, 'just'. He created us, and he created the angels - yet he would punish us for being flawed? It is true that under grace anyone can be saved - but what about the people who are not? I do not believe in the whole eternal firey hell death thing. I do believe that people not saved will die and be seperated from God, but NOT in the eternal torture thing.

I feel sorry for the angels though. Some of them will be burning eternally - it has to be hard to be an angel.

All throughout history people have searched for meaning - I do not find it surprising that they believe in spirits and gods - having some sort of spirituality makes more sense to me than believing the chance theory.

I will look into the names of God again. The 'we' I have heard about but it is something almost glossed over. The trinity is an almost purposely misunderstood concept in the church. The trinity is often seen as a clover - to me, all three are wholy God. Not three pieces on the same stem - but three spirits of the same soul?

I am still very confused, but realizing that God himself is multiple - that gives me hope and is helping me understand how we can all exist together better.

[kuwaizair.livejournal.com]

i think i have it, its not there yet, i feel its on the tip of my toung. i think.

also ive seen 'god is a little autisitc, thats why the planets spin" said on a page once. *shakes head* there goes gravatational pull....