But I guess a deep spiritual belief of mine is that one must choose God to understand the God within oneself. Until you ask/listen out for/repent (in the Greek sense, metanoia)/reaccess the Source, you will wander about totally unaware of your divinity. You are potential God rather than realized God.
Or so I'm rambling on to myself. But I base this on Old Testament statements about returning to the sound of God's voice. This is a huge tenet of my personal belief structure. I realize my beliefs are incredibly idiosyncratic.
I don't disagree with anything you just said... I think that the difference is in our respective denotations/connotations of "to choose".
It's all a matter of being exposed to the right data and efficiently processing it once you are; some folks are and some folks aren't, which I suppose amounts to a "choice" of a sort, at least from our limited perspective.
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Date: 2004-03-16 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-16 10:39 pm (UTC)One cannot deny what one is part of, so yeah, "irresistable and undeniable" would cover it.
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Date: 2004-03-16 10:55 pm (UTC)But I guess a deep spiritual belief of mine is that one must choose God to understand the God within oneself. Until you ask/listen out for/repent (in the Greek sense, metanoia)/reaccess the Source, you will wander about totally unaware of your divinity. You are potential God rather than realized God.
Or so I'm rambling on to myself. But I base this on Old Testament statements about returning to the sound of God's voice. This is a huge tenet of my personal belief structure. I realize my beliefs are incredibly idiosyncratic.
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Date: 2004-03-16 11:02 pm (UTC)It's all a matter of being exposed to the right data and efficiently processing it once you are; some folks are and some folks aren't, which I suppose amounts to a "choice" of a sort, at least from our limited perspective.