Concepts of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by BBella , Thursday, April 07, 2016, 17:34 (2934 days ago) @ dhw

BBELLA: On the other hand, putting myself into the place of ONE such eternal being with all power to create - instead of creating life, and becoming a watcher and a fiddler of it - I would become life itself. Become it in such a multitude of ways as to experience any and every possible way of being and experience it all fully. But the only way to do that, to truly experience ALL things exclusively as one thing, I would have to close the door to the true knowledge of who - I AM. 
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> This is a very complex concept: God (a being with the power to create) would presumably have created life in the first place, but then decided to experience it in all its aspects by giving up his own identity and becoming all living things. -I would not assume (in my imagining myself as God) that I would first create life and then decide to experience it myself. No, I would think I would design a way to experience "being" in many different ways and so create life - or a way to distance myself from my true I-dentity so to become other i-dentities.->But if he has no identity and IS all living things, he no longer exists as a separate being. He has become ALL THAT IS, in all its diversity. Is this right? -Putting myself in God's place (as only a mere human), I do not think I would want to (or could) give up my ONE true I-dentity. The very act of death itself seems to me to fit nicely as a fail-safe assurance that all identities return to that place in-between to be reminded of one's place of origin, etc. The imagination can go wild at this point and can even be evidenced by millions of testimonials. This very concept dominates many religions as well as lives alive and well in most if not all human thought processes (at least somewhere in the back of one's mind - the possibility of God). Many formal beliefs embrace this very concept of God as all and separate. ->It's certainly an intriguing idea, and would explain his absence and the higgledy-piggledy history of evolution, as well as putting paid to David's various evolutionary and teleological hypotheses. In fact, if it weren't for the difficulty of believing that life came about by chance, we could dispense with the concept of God altogether, which perhaps is what you are getting at? On the other hand, putting myself in his place (if he exists), I'm not so sure that I would want to give up my identity!-I agree.