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Originally posted by Boogie:

I don't believe in a "God of the gaps'.

I believe in a God, without whom, nothing would exist and there would be no science to investigate. I believe in a God who started the whole caboodle off and sustains it all. Not by controlling anything - s/he gave the whole of creation total freedom to evolve - but by simply being.

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Can you, or would you have a go at trhying to, examine your belief in a detached, unbiased way do you think? That is, if you go back, step by step, through all the steps
which had to take place to put the idea and then belief of God in your mind? Every one of those steps will be taken because of words and actions of other human beings. Whether they were interpreting words or actions to you as being God's and explaining their association with God (i.e. the Christian one), or or not, the fact is that all the words and ideas you have of god come from other people. If you had been born into a family and culture of Islam, with no knowledge of what Christians believe, the extremely strong likelihood is that you too would have Islamic beliefs.

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I don't think Christian/Muslim/Sikh/Hindu Gods need to be differentiated from God.

To me, we all worship what we know of God (the elephant idea). None of us have a true or whole picture. We have scraps - tiny scraps - of the infinite.

It isn't especially about beliefs or knowledge, either. It's about relationship and how we let that relationship affect us spiritually. My relationship with God is poor, meagre and very, very tenuous. But it's still there, just. I get glimpses of that which is far beyond me. That which seems to be still there when all is hopeless and lonely. I call this 'God'. It may not ne - but it needs a name so 'God is the name I use.



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