It’s been a long time since the previous post in this series. In case you need to refresh your memory, see Part 1 and Part 2.
In the video below clip Lloyd Geering makes the point that we as Human Beings created the concept of God. I agree. One only need to look at the variety of gods that have been created by cultures over a number of millennia, to realise that the likelihood of any of them being true is extremely unlikely.
Some of Lloyd Geering’s comments from the video clip that ring true to me:
I’ve never thought of God as a personal God. Indeed in a sense the word God is really beyond all definition simply because it is a symbolic term.
…and of course that brings us to the point where today we can accept that the term God is simply a symbolic term for all that is greatest and highest in our values.
Is it conceivable that this universe has been created by a rational mind rather like ours? Does it show evidence that it has a clear purpose in being there at all? I would say no purpose for which we can actually give any answer.
What religion is for me is how does one best respond to the various chance events which happen to you in life – how do you make the best of them? And I have found the the whole Christian myth helpful in helping to give me give it shape and supply the kind of values that that one needs in order to live a meaningful life.
Whereas we used to think of God as the Creator, I think it’s better to think of God as simply the process of creativity, which is in us, and is in the universe in an all inspiring way.
The idea that there was nothing once except God, and God created the universe is really a bit puerile now.
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