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Re: Re: Amanda,
Christine,
Thank you for taking my question in the loving, respectful way I intended and for your terrific reply. I'd be up for continuing this conversation. Also, you are welcome to check out our Toastmasters Club on Zoom anytime you like. We'd love to have you!
posted by
Amanda__
on November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Re: Amanda,
Probably not in the way you, a true Christian, does.
First of all, gender is a body thing that applies to Jesus as a human being but not so much to God, an entity, a consciousness that transcends the gender dichotomy/spectrum. It is not bound by the limitations that we are in the habit of thinking are absolutes.
My personal thought on the matter is that God manifested as a human being and in doing so grew in understanding and compassion, learning how truly difficult it is to be human, to be a spirit trying to abide in the physical world with its many limitations as well as its unique advantages. Jesus was God learning about love. He learned it as a human being living a lifetime from conception to birth through childhood, to manhood.
I believe that every one of us is a bit of the entire Divine, and that everything we learn in living in the physical reality increases the Divine. I believe humans defined God as perfect and complete because that is how children believe their parents to be. It's a great comfort when one feels one's youth and ignorance, one's inexperience in a complex world, to believe that our parents are always able to protect us, that they are perfect and all-knowing. Of course in adolescence we realize how un-so that is, and get angry because suddenly we can't count on them to protect us and guide us perfectly. Anger is fear, but it is also the way we distinguish our selves from others--in this case, from our parents.
People who have mistaken expectations of the Divine, who become bitterly disappointed when God fails to fulfill their expectations, that's another stage of adolescence that the spirit/human goes through. Maturity is in the realization that one's expectations were the problem, that God has not failed, that the Divine continues to be the loving parent of our souls.
I could say more but I am someone else's ride home right now. But if you want to continue the conversation, I'm up for it.
posted by
Ciel
on November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I'm just curious if you believe Jesus is God's son. You didn't address that.
posted by
Amanda__
on November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Well Ceil once I was in my mind called upon by what we call God. Of course I was young and it made me afraid. So I did the easiest solution.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I share thee same thoughts. For me, God a Spirit. More importantly for me He is a warmth that surrounds my being giving me unconditional comfort.
posted by
sam444
on October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This an impressive post. No questions. I do not find science incompatible with a “God.”
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on October 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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