I think we are on the right track but as usual, there is an undertow. Who we are is a futile question that puts our self in or around the Image of God.
We imagine who we are and we can only postscribe that image as a loving Father. But does that satisfy our longing to describe the big difference between who we think we are, who we most like to be, to satisfy the intended vision which develops using God’s supposed image as a paradigm, or simply at a certain phase of development feel as if the apix has been reached and either we sustain that image, or we rumple back to earlier forms, conflexing willfully that downward slope to reinvent new images based on less subtle form , which may become more and more self absorbing.
Finally the recurring prayer is He is who He is, and now the who is replaced by What He Is.
We have come full circle in deobjectifying God into a total and Self consuming jpanthethic certainty, and the energy that is as self consuming as the vision, is a perpetua mobile, the energy of God, that we have come to identify as Live, never can burn out, It is inexhaustibly transformed into eternal liove.
That is the beginning to the end, Keith the hidden middle, the mechanics by which this Live maintains It’self in eternity.
Now comes the fun part, where the messenger of God, seeks to explain how it is done.Ec suggested that is everyone became the same, then existence could not happen, nor would existence ever be , hence there could never be Man who could conceive the question. Then he says something totally in opposition, that Man is eternal, never dies, hence the conclusion that could be deduced is that there are two states, which both are imminent, objectless energy sources that concurrently, objectlessly have essential characteristics, without any non temporal function other than say, that a dark energy coexisting with the apparent.
Then someone else describes this mechanical interpretation as an overriding proclivity of energy , to seek a face, to subjugate energy into human terms, out of which the whole need to identify that face with the more objective process of how it’s done.
So we go full circle tht Saint Anselm tried to build faith in, and the same skeptics who have denied this pantheistic circle, do not realize that they are nihilism zing ccircle of live.
But then again rationale requires reason, and reason other rationales.
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