The word God is a generic term that describes the powers/forces that oversee creation. The root appears to mean: to press or exert force (taken from the Noah Webster Dictionary printed in 1904). We are taught that God is a supreme being. The word "being" is defined as the state or fact of existing or living; fundamental or essential nature. There is no human-like quality associated with either of these definitions. 

In ancient times, natural, political, and spiritual forces were personified (personification is a function of the right brain - see mystery of the split brain - where we give human qualities to something that has no human form) into characters that were used in mythical dramas. These dramas were used to help the ancient cultures understand why things are the way they are. The characters were never real in themselves. Rather, it is what the characters represent that was at the heart of the matter. The gods of the ancient Hindus represented the cycles of nature. The gods of the ancient Babylonians represented the forces of geology. The gods of the ancient Egyptians represented the elements of agriculture. The God of the Hebrews was synonymous with the unified field theory of physics, and so on. The characters were no more real than Uncle Sam. yet, the character represents something that is real. When we enlist in the military, we are empowering the forces of Uncle Sam. When we pay our taxes, we are enriching the wealth of Uncle Sam. When we get a government job, we are working for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is much larger than a mere character. The gods of the ancient world must be seen in the same light if we are to understand them at all.

The Catholic church, in its attempt to separate science from dogma, also unwittingly separated God from reality. It was an error that may haunt them in time to come. For since then, anything that comes with an explanation is no longer attributed to God. This is what has become known as "the God of the gaps" in the science community. As a result, science is slowly removing God from the secular world.

At the age of nine, I had a spiritual experience while meditating on the word God. It would forever change my view of what the word meant. The church and my secular school teachers were incapable of helping me understand what I had experienced. Eleven years later, I would find myself in a nuclear physics class, and what I had experienced eleven years earlier would now come with an explanation. It was the quantum world, the foundation upon which all natural laws, forces, processes, and structures would emerge.

GOD is the life force of the cosmos. It is the power that drives the quantum field matrix. Quantum physics is the foundation upon which the fabric of space and time is built. It is everywhere, it is invisible, it is the alpha and the omega. It is perfect throughout the cosmos. It has no form. It has no boundaries. It fills the universe. It is the source from which all forms are made manifest. The fundamental forces of nature are all emanations of the source. This was the notion that was personified as the Supreme Being.

Richard Dawkins claims that we are the intelligent result of unintelligent beginnings. Albert Einstein claimed that the harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority, that all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Einstein realized that the quantum world was not deaf, dumb, and blind. It is claimed that he saw the theory of relativity in one night. It would take him eight years to present it in a way that others could understand. He knew his vision of the theory came from a higher spirit. All sacred writings came in similar fashion.

Jesus represented God on earth. He never harmed a single soul, nor was he capable of it. I suggest you commit that to memory. The modern Christian church preaches a different Jesus. The road to reformation is never closed to any soul, here or hereafter. Yet, that does not excuse us from the consequences of our actions. The law of Karma holds us accountable to the error of our ways until we learn to overcome them.

MAN MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD

This is likely the most misunderstood scripture in all of sacred text that pertains to God, for it seems to imply that God is in the image of a man. Nothing could be further from the truth. God is the creator (or creative aspect of the cosmos). It endowed us with creative ability. It is our ability to create that makes us made in the image of the creator. It has nothing to do with what either one looks like.

Most human conceptions of God are easily understood, workable falsehoods. It results from trying to bring God down to our level as opposed to bringing ourselves up to God's level. The mystics made it clear that God is beyond all forms, beyond all manifestations. Humanity, in its attempt to understand God, created anthropomorphic (human-like) personifications (or images) to represent God. Yet none of these images are real in themselves. They represent what is real. The atheist who rejects these images is correct in doing so. Yet, beyond all personifications, beyond all human conceptions, is the ineffable mystery, without which, there is no cosmos.

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