...God to me is also the creator of the universe,an omnipotent,omnicient being.
Yes chioice is an illusion. to humans anyway. God is knows everything that is and will be. so any "choice" we make is already known...
have you really put thought into what your god is? or do you go with the whole "i'll never be able to understand Him because He's too great."? most people i know that "believe in god" do so because "it just makes sense." mainly because they assume:
- something had to create all of this in the "beginning" (its simpler to assume there was no beginning, that the universe has always existed, instead of giving this attribute to an imaginary friend)
- the existence of good and evil (merely human ideals)
- the world is too complex for it to not be created by unimaginable intelligence ("complex" is a idea that relies on perception, not the actual physical properties of something. the universe is only as complex as we see it to be.)
why are planets round? because they were formed that way by gravity. theyre not perfect spheres because somebody made them that way. this is all like a big line of dominoes that has always been falling, and it will never end. and like i said before:
if god has unlimited knowledge and is all-powerful, he must be omnipresent. such a being would not have the ability to differentiate himself from anything because he is everything. god cant think. the only realistic form of "god" cant even make decisions, its more of a unifying force that connects all. i wont deny that something like that exists, but to put so much importance in something like that is silly. you can call it "god", but i figure it would be easier (and less confusing for ppl) for it to be called "the universe."
the universe is everything. everything that exists, which includes nonexistence. without perception, even things such as creation and time are the same thing. everythings the same, because its all the universe. thats as big as it can get.
oh, and to go back to "THE beginning" idea. its more common in western civilization to assume there was a beginning to the universe because of one main reason. we're self centered.
the way you see the world is a direct representation of how you see urself because all u really know is yourself. everything else is how u interact with it. what u see, hear, feel, etc is your perception, not the "real world." when u see the world, you look at a characteristic of it and you figure "is it like me, or the opposite, or somewhere in-between?" so, if we know that we havent always existed (we were born), many of us assume that the universe was the same way. because, for some reason, people refuse to believe there is anything between existence and nonexistence
but we are not our bodies. we are our perception. we wouldnt even know if our bodies were here if it wasnt for our consciousness. and our consciousness has always been. unconsciousness is not an actual state, it is the absence of. unconsciousness doesnt exist.
NONEXISTENCE DOESNT EXIST
thats the theological side. but u can see it first hand too with a strong enough microscope. scientists see that sub-atomic particles can only be observed 50% of the time. these particles are flashing in a way. your physical body only exists where you are right now only half of the time. kinda makes sense if the universe we live in the exists and doesnt exists at the same time...
