How can a personal God be infinite??????Please comment!!!!!!!

One and Many

Our Divine Heritage

Creation:

People tend to think that God created us from nothing. This is not possible. Just as we create from existing materials we are created from what's already there and the Bible attests to this.

The Bible starts out in Hebrew, "B'reisheet barah Elohim..." The word "barah" means brought forth. When a Jew blesses fruit for example, they say "blessed is God, our God, King of the universe who brings forth the fruit of the tree." Here you can see that fruit is made from what is already in existence, as opposed to being made from nothing. God made us from Himself as He was all that was present.

We have functionally though not essentially separated from the whole:

If God is to create and He is infinite, there can be nothing outside of Him. Therefore, Logic dictates that we would be in Him, and of Him:

"For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain of your poets have said, for ye are also His offspring."

-The Acts 17:28 KJV

In order for God to create He focuses on an area within His being and gives it individuality. This entity then has the ability to function as though separate, but remaining essentially one with God.

Unity among mystics and devotees

The religious believe in a personal God, yet they say He is infinite. Logically speaking, God cannot be solely a personal God and be infinite.

Those who are mystical believe that God is infinite and impersonal. They believe God possesses no mind, intellect or emotions, which is hardly an all-powerful God. It makes the most sense for God to have a personal aspect so He can relate personally with His creations.

What I propose is not to be dogmatic, but to bring the religious and mystical together. Since God is universal, He is capable of being both impersonal and personal, both aspects being absolute. If God didn't have an impersonal aspect His omnipresence wouldn't be true.

God had His own awareness and we have our own awareness, but our awareness exists within God's awareness. Everything exists on their own, though they are connected to and essentially dependent on the existence of God.

God has a personal aspect which Adam was made in the image of, but going forth from God's personality is His impersonal aspect which allows God to be infinite. We are actually within His impersonal aspect.

With meditation your being attempts to experience you innate unity with God's universality. Through prayer you communicate lovingly with God's personality

While many assume the Buddha to have not believed in a personal God one can easily see by reading his words upon the dawning of his enlightenment that this was not the case:

"Through many a birth I have wandered in samsara, seeking, but never finding the House-Builder. It is such sorrow to take birth again and again.

O House-Builder, Thou art revealed! Thou shalt not build a house for me again. All Thy rafters are broken. Thy ridge-pole is shattered. My mind has entered the unconditioned and reached the end of craving."

-Dharmapada: 11:8-9

It is important to note that the Buddha was a philosopher and not a prophet. Therefore, it wasn't necessary for him to teach about God, only to teach people how to live a better life. It is my belief that the Buddha never intended for his teachings to justify non-belief in God.

God's personality is complex. "My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are you ways My ways, ' says the Lord.'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."

-Isaiah 55:8-9

He is Love. His love is expressed in a very complex manner. In the Qur'an the angels ask God why He will create a man when he will act destructively. God says, "I know what you know not."

Our realm is imperfect complete with suffering and the evil that is the other side of the coin of duality in order to set-up a learning environment. Problems create solutions. This is the only way to learn.