Chili

The question was how many Gods in the OP.

There is God in Gen. 1
There is Lord God in Gen.2
There is 'like god' in Gen 3.

This makes for 3 Gods with the lesser god of Gen. 3 being the co-creator with God to produce and reproduce Lord God in the image of man throughout the ages.

So Lord God is "the being" and God is the essence of this being with 'like god' being the human co-creator that modifies the essence of God in time.

CaliNORML

1. Is life and all it's bloody rules, immoral actions, and animalish behavior that makes life so succecfull. Like Aids or a T-Rex, we are indeed born into life with these survival instincts. They are perfect.

2. "Lord God," we do have another set of rules governed by Compassion. The exact oppopsite of those making our dominance over "life" a success.

3. Act in compassion and be "like God." Live on Earth in peace, respect and equality. Could work to all our benifit.

Two sets of opposing rules, one to make "life" and the others to "live" it by.

KMS

Chili

1. I can accept that life is successful for the living but that is only because survivors are alive . . . or should I say 'still' alive while we nurse the illusion it is. Life itself is perfect and it is to the extent we are partakers of life that we are A-live. Notice that there is no such thing as being 'a-dead' wherefore we are born "into" a life that is not ours but is ours to live.

2.Being enslaved to Lord God is where love serves life for the living. You may wish to call this an [obscure] aspect of natural law but no less determinate. This is where Lord God is life made manifest and rules supreme. Notice here that God is Love and Lord God is Life.

3. True, but dominance is created out of the controversy or there is nothing to celebrate. I would say there that just as flowers must be burried in darkness before they can bud and bloom the so must the human spirit be exhausted to see the light of life and be redeemed.

FatherMithras

Seriously, is Chili um... a normal person? He seems to think it's a good idea to post ridiculously weird crap all over the place that honestly has no value. Interesting fellow but it seems like he just wants to mess with people.

Chris Weimer

Chili is a Catholic with heavy gnostic tendencies. He has admitted before that he posts for himself and no one else.

Chili

Life is infinite and has no opposite of its own or it would not be good. The opposite of life is found in death after we extract our share from life itself and therein created the opposite of death. Hence, we die but God doesn't, or at least, that which we call God does not.

This is the same with Agape that has no opposite of its own except in our extraction of it wherein we create hate, anger etc. Hence we hate, but God does not.

As it is with presence when we call things our own and fence ourselves in with attachments to things that will never be ours until we 'are' not and after that all is ours and only dividend is paid to us by the sun.

As with omniscience whence we extract our share of science for the day and call it ours so we can to take a better look at the 'place' we left behind (which is not exactly true because knowledge accumulates so that empires may be built).

And time which is conceived to exist in our left brain wherein only we are rational agents ('like god') so we might be diligent because we know that our share of life is short and we will want to make the most of it. So really, it is a good thing to know that we will die.

But if the above is true, who is in charge?