- Moving right along…
- Our next problem is God
- It’s difficult enough to believe in “magic” in general, but to believe in something like an original being who is responsible for everything else is almost impossible — if you’ve been well-educated in Europe or the U.S.
- By the second grade, I was already worried that God was just another Santa Clause…
- From a well-educated-western point of view, it is quite difficult to believe in “God…”
- But then, I suspect that most of us well-educated westerners aren’t nearly as smart as THEY think THEY are
- In trying to fully understand REALITY, we’re probably like third graders trying to understand Calculus (or maybe, like preschoolers or chickens)
- Maybe Hawking and Einstein were like 4th graders?
- From a non-magic perspective, nothing makes sense — but here I (something) am (is) — i.e. something does exist
- Whatever, public school — in the U.S. at least — basically discounts the existence of a God
- As do our elite universities
- Apparently, it’s even worse in Europe
- And, we should expect our kids to find it more and more difficult to believe in God — which would be a shame
- Hopefully, this website can help parents to help their kids…
- For those who believe, God is perceived as our ultimate source — our source of ultimate meaning — which, if nothing else, allows us to be seriously happy from time to time, and sub-consciously happy in general
- And, Ultimate Meaning is what Religion is all about
- Anyway, in a sense, believing in a God might be the most difficult part of being religious — but as far as I can tell, every major religion (except Buddhism) does believe in some sort of God…
- Perhaps, the biggest problem to believing in God is our subconscious image, formed in childhood, of God being an old man with a long white beard
- So perhaps, our first step in helping our kids to believe is to point out that if there is a God, “It” must be more like “The Force,“ or a “Universal Consciousness” than an old man
- And again, I would urge you to search for “universal consciousness”
- And, as our kids mature, we should begin pointing out the apparent magic discussed earlier
- For instance: since logically speaking, nothing seems to make sense — that God doesn’t seem to make sense, shouldn’t be such a big deal
- Remember, we’re probably not nearlyas smart as we think we are — and could be that we’re not nearly as smart as we think we are
- And, once we perceive ourselves as miracles — as the improbability of our current existences implies — something like The Force, or Universal Consciousness, seems likely indeed
- Something does actually exist — how did that come about?
- And then, there’s Jesus
- While evidence for Jesus is only indirect evidence for God, there is actually some very serious evidence for the deity of Jesus — for the “super-natural” in Jesus
- You reading this are likely aware of the following claims, but not of their seriousness
- a. The Star of Bethlehem by Frederick Larson (hour long DVD for about $20) Combining the stars of 2 BC with Matthew 2, almost proves that a group of Magi delivered gifts to the 5 month old “Christ Child” on December 25 of 2 BC
- The Shroud of Turin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbuG-oVq1Q): While the 2018 study of the Shroud concluded that it was created in the middle ages, doubts still remained,
- No one has been able to replicate the Shroud (even with modern technology )
- And the latest studies have revised the 2018 negative conclusion to about 30 AD2000 years OLD…
- I’ll get to those under Christianity
- Otherwise.
- If there is a God, consciousness must be “Its” essence –and remember, consciousness is the only thing that we KNOW does actually exist…
- And then, consciousness must inherently FEEL and CARE — which is essential for what we call “God”
- LOVE being “Its”/our ultimate goal
- In addition, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics may be connecting some of the dots and correcting some of our misplaced assumptions — we’ll see
- Quantum Mechanics, for instance, does suggest the existence of a universal consciousness
- Someday, it should be easy to suspect that every conscious being is an example of something basic — that’s universal consciousness…
- Hopefully, I’ll eventually be able to express that more effectively — and you’ll be able to experience the miracle that I think we each are
- The best I can do right now is to assume that we are not nearly as smart as we think we are and we are missing something crucial…
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