As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
Perfection is an absolute that many say is impossible; however, depending upon "definitions", i might be attainable. Matthew 5:48 says that we are to be perfect as the Creator is. The Greek word gives us a bit of a chance here as we can translate "teleios" as to be ALL that we were created to be: live up to our BEING-ness. That's easier? :-)
So, what's up with this "non-religious" God stuff?
We, the people have "created God" in our very own localized-regionalized God believing that everyone on the planet should adopt "our God". Is the one who created ALL a Christian God, Muslim God, Buddhist God, Jewish God, or even more recently a scientific God? Can you see how silly we have made this argument and how devastatingly suicidal?
How many MILLIONS have been killed by religious zealots wanting to force their God on the Godless (those not believing as they did)?
At the CORE of all religions are three fundamental aspects of the nature of God.
1-God is an agent of causation and above all other causation
2-There are more subtle fields of reality than the material level
3-There are God-like qualities (ie. love) that religions teach people to aspire as goals of life.
For we who call ourselves Christians (my definition of a Christian is simply one who follows the historical Jesus in attempting to become the Christos that he did) Jesus was obviously a "perfected being". I also define a "perfected being" much like what we find in Romans 8: one who regularly has access to the highest level of consciousness (Christians call this the Holy Spirit).
Gandhi would be a "perfected being" (and may others). Who else do you know that freed a nation now with more than a BILLION people (India's freedom came in 1948) with "ahisma" (non-violence). Christians today ask how is it that we can turn the other cheek with such violence in the world? I don't know, but Gandhi DID IT. Martin Luther King DID IT. Maybe if the "religious" would get down off their soap box, and humble themselves and their multitude of dogmas and doctrines, sit quietly to hear from God, and SERVE, we might have a shot at saving the world.
I'm way from being perfected, may never attain it, but I can say that I'm less and less serving any sort of "religious God"
How you doing in those areas?
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