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IGNORANCE — THE ORIGIN OF CONFLICT
OLD TESTAMENT VS. NEW TESTAMENT — NATURE OF GOD
When all parties engaging any subject learn the truth that defines their subject, all potential conflict goes away.
If you are unable to seriously contemplate Spiritual Reality as real, either read something else, or be prepared to read with an open mind thoughts that presume Spiritual Reality.
Does God evolve, always learning through its creation about itself?
This question calls up the issue of “the eternal now” vs. linear time. Is the “all knowing” always learning through teaching itself through the act of creation? This sounds in the passage of linear time.
My simplistic escape from this dilemma is to presume we are not dealing with the passage of time, but the perspective we have from a particular location in the infinite space of consciousness. This may work acceptably well for our human limited minds, but what about the supposed all knowing All?
For my escape hatch to work for the Source of All, I suppose we’d need to consider that the infinite Source of All, the Great Mind which we presume encompasses infinity, could consciously explore Its own infinity from an infinite number of perspectives. This is at odds with a presumption that the All Knower knows and sees All from every perspective in an instant of the Eternal Now.
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You see by now that I have jumped into the deep, deep end of the pool. Having raised the…