There are some things that need to be stated unequivocally before we go any further. (This is my viewpoint right now, but I'm keeping an open mind if better ideas show up.)
1. We are not God, but we DO have a God nature, or spirit. God breathed into us life and spirit from Him, at creation. But that doesn't mean we can then say that we ARE God any more than my son could use my driver's license to drive. If you think you are God then you should be able to do something small, like whip up another inhabitable planet that's not too far away (can it be too far away if you are really God?).
2. We can connect with our God nature / explore our own spirituality, and this brings great pleasure and fulfillment to our lives. We can then have our spirit/God nature connect with another's spirit/God nature, and we have valuable, lasting bonds of friendship. And it is very good.
3. But connecting with our own internal God nature is not the same as connecting with God. If we worship our own internal God nature, given to us by God at creation, we are not worshiping the creator, but the creation itself. Our God nature was and is part of our creation, so if we worship IT that might be 'good' but not the 'best'-- worshiping the Creator, God Himself.
4. How do we communicate God to others? Depends on where they are, their culture, their frame of reference. So for modern self-realization/enlightenment people, we recognize that they are already into spiritual things and becoming attuned to our true God nature. That is a very good thing! This is common ground on which we can meet!
5. Many modern Christians have lost their connection with their God nature, their spirit, for various different reasons. I don't think God intends us to live such a meager, sad experience either, and Jesus was trying to point this out. When we are out of tune with the God nature/spirit then our relationships with others suffer tremendously. We end up trashing the planet, making life miserable for all. Christians have much to gain by reconnecting with the original spiritual philosophies that were common even just a few hundred years ago. The common ground between modern Christians and modern enlightenment folks is beneficial to both sides!
That is where I am coming from in the writing of this blog, to reawaken spirituality in the modern Christian, and to get God, who has been much maligned in modern times, back into the dialog of the modern spiritually conscious enlightenment crowd.
People are spiritually starving! I see a gaunt fatigue of malnutrition in the modern church, and empty weariness in spiritual seekers outside the church. Jesus came that we should be fed, and not be hungry.
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