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Originally Posted by zen_tom
He is what we strive to become, either personally or as a society.
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I agree with this, though I do think that God is an entity. Whether he be some sort of energy or matter of what have you I don't know. But I do know that God is all loving and all compassionate, and in knowing that he exists and striving to be like him we become better persons. So then, the people that say that god is an excuse, I wonder what exactly he is an excuse for. Loving compassion?
As far as God just being some self actualization within ourselves, I think that, while this approach may work in life, it doesn't work as far as the afterlife is concerned. Nobody is perfect, everyone sins. So then, what happens when we die, are we suddenly self actualized and blissful right when we die? I take the approach that God sees those that try to do good and strive to be like him, and he takes those people into heaven after death. He knows no one is perfect, that everyone sins. Those that truly strive to do away with sin, though, are the ones that he embraces.