I read today in Mondo's forum the idea that the best way of promoting a viewpoint is to actually promote the viewpoint. The opposite approach is to promote via attacking the alternatives. Which is the real best way?
I want to propose a third alternative. We can watch the political landscape and see the strategies change on a daily basis, no doubt as the result of polling results and high level strategy changes. Sometimes it is to pound home a message of positivity, other times it is to use scare tactics, and still other times it is to attack the opponent where they are perceived to be weakest. In contests such as these which culminate with a deadline, these are the only real alternatives. However, in real life, deadlines and the like are artificialities, especially when considering the promotion of a spiritual point of view. There is no need to promote, there is no need to defend, there is not need to attack. The alternative is to live, and speak out loud of those things which naturally come forward to, essentially, a non-specific audience.
I watch as people come and go, choose their targets, strategize and work towards winning people's souls for God. But I'm reminded that Paul said something pretty profound in that we may plant, even water ... but it is God that brings forth the "crop" and it is definitely He that harvests ...
While I think the idea of promoting is the best to promote, I think that if one really wants results, they may simply step back and forget about results ... it then becomes a matter of trust ... trust that God will bring forth the increase, but also that IF someone does not come round to our way of thinking, that it's ok ... and that God has all that well in hand, in a "good" way. Which I believe and have felt deep within my spirit for many years now.
I've recently come to the same conclusion--after years of trying so hard to make people open their minds and see MY viewpoint. We do very little to change one another and it is sometimes best to let God (or the cosmos) sort it all out. *-)
First, I would need to look at what others call god and see IT myself as The Source. We would all be within that Source. We would all have free will to ap point, but only as much as we would 'need' to suit the 'wishes' of The Source.
So in that way of thinking, I would say 'god is boss'.....we are all but dreams of The Source.
OK..............
"...distinct substance or reality"
God or The Source or both?
Well, of course neither are provable.
BUT we all had to come from somewhere.....
Jackie
We are all of 1 Spirit
and
1 Spirit is The All That Is!
With "God" one can have it any way one wants, and that could mean those "Christians" have been havings those "non-Christians" on ever since day one because without "God" one can have it any way one wants as well.
You post: "With "God" one can have it any way one wants,..."
I am unsure as to your point, but this phrase is not correct as long as you capitalize God. With God, there is but one way and that way is God's way. This does not mean that Man is not capable of imagining what that "way" might be. Many, many people do this.
But, with God there is but one way... and the difficult task is to discover what this "way" is?
There is a subtle pass by the MIND, like a most skillful bull fighter, wherein by God becoming everything, God in actuality is relegated to nothing. The absolute lack of specificity eliminates one finding that which is "everything".
I find it more manageable to view God as an Absolute as well, but rather than being everything, God is Absolutely one thing only, and that is Neutral Spiritual Energy, or NSgy. The Creation and everything within it is a projection of a stepped-down NSgy, and thus still "of" God, but not God in an Absolute sense.
This then places God in a Reality that one may achieve, but not by any means other than becoming NSgy oneself.
I think that if one really wants results, they may simply step back and forget about results ... it then becomes a matter of trust ... trust that God will bring forth the increase, but also that IF someone does not come round to our way of thinking, that it's ok ... and that God has all that well in hand, in a "good" way. Which I believe and have felt deep within my spirit for many years now.