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In my story, there is a part of you that wants to help make the world better for everyone. It's a part of human nature.

Thank you. You have made me very happy. :)

I'm not at all sure of understanding this conversation between the two of you, so I'm not sure how relevant this will be. One way I think of what I'm doing with the word "God," is trying to learn to use it the way it's used in my scriptures, to help me learn more and better from them and for...

I've gone through a variety of ways of thinking about God. Where I am now is learning to use not God, but the word "God" in the ways that it is used in my scriptures, to better learn from them and for them to do all they can for me to serve better.

You aren't volunteering to be my expert in Hinduism?

I've been searching for a short way to say the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, without using a misleading word like "persons." I found it! I'll just say "the Three." In this thread, when I say "the Three," it will mean "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."

In the last few years, I've spent a lot of time in a Trinity forum, watching debates between people defending and attacking Trinity beliefs. I'm posting my thoughts here, to see what happens. :D I don't say that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are persons. I say what they are not. The...

Another way to say how I relate to Christianity is that I'm not a Christian and I don't want to be a Christian, but I want to be the kind of servant that Jesus wants for me to be.

I don't know how much you are aware of this, but the usefulness and success in the physical sciences is not only from the formulas and equations. It's as much or even more from imagining thing that don't exist. A few examples are imagining electrons as tiny beads, imagining lines of force...

What are you calling "science"? If it's the original reports of researchers, or what the researchers themselves think about it, that is not what I'm talking about, because that is not what people are calling "science" in public discussions. What people are calling "science" in public discussions...

I understand all that, but alongside of that I think that in Hinduism the gods and the avatars, and some concept of ultimate reality play a role in that. Even if you don't believe in any of that, I think that you're well versed in the terminology, and that's what I was asking you about. If you...

But you are leaving out a vast, essential and vital part of Hinduism in that explanation. Even if you don't take it literally, don't you see any metaphorical value in it? Don't you think that it has anything to do with the value of Hinduism, and how it works for people? Do you think that all of...

That depends on what you mean by "the idea of the trinity." There are three somethings in the Bible who are called "God," and no two of them are the same person, but they are not three gods. The theologians didn't invent that. They only invented a name for it, and some ways of trying to explain...

I changed my mind, Maybe those analogies can be helpful and not harmful, as long as you don't think of any one explanation as being the only right one and all others as being wrong. In my story, all of our understandings are wrong in some ways, and there isn't any one way of thinking that is the...

What you're looking for might be Paramarthika, and the avatars. If you're going to try to equate that with God and His manifestations, I would agree, with some conditions and qualifications, but you might get some resistance from @Aupmanyav. :D From me also, if you're trying to assimilate his...

I think of our views as projections of reality in our minds, and like flat map projections of the earth's surface they can never perfectly represent it. Different projections are better for different purposes, and there is no single projection that is best for all purposes. Also it's interesting...

I agree that He wants us to try to understand, but not to think that we understand when we don't. I'm not sure that those analogies can't be helpful, maybe they can, but I think that they are all false, one way or another. I can't see anything that they can do other than to create a false...

I'm imagining that you think that they came originally from God, and I would agree with that if by "God" you mean the unknowable who is called the God of Abraham in the Bible. But how did it come to them? From their elders, society, and laws of the nation, and back, and back. Is there a...

A few days ago I had a new idea about that conversation. I was thinking that what Jesus was saying was that the kingdom was there within the gathering, in the form of Him and His disciples. That's my understanding of the kingdom, people learning together to live the way He says to live. Now...

He calls the servants brothers and sisters, and friends, but He also calls Himself their Lord. He is their brother, and their Lord, at the same time, and by "Lord," He means for them to do what He says. - John 13:13 (KJV) Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. - Luke 6:46...