What if God was one of us?

But we, as thinking, reasoning beings, know that if God was within us, eventually the power of God would have been tapped in some way by us, so that we would be using it for selfish reasons, at first, anyway. Eventually, we would rise above selfish and fleshly purposes, but it would be the first target for our satisfaction. If God was within all of us, then why haven't we risen to higher levels of advancement by now? Why are we still wallowing in the depths of selfishness, hatred, prejudice, violence and other immature behavior? Why are so many of the images in publications like Time Magazine of a horrible, violent nature? Where did they have their origin, if not from our darker self? And where did that darker self come from? If God is within us, why haven't we been able to remove that darker part of us? If God is within us, why are we still here, instead of moving beyond this miserable physical plane? If God is within us, why do we see images like an aborted fetus in a person's hand, instead of reaching full term as a healthy baby? Why do we see children in Africa with tummies as big as a basketball because they have had nothing to eat, with bodies wasted away until we could carry several of them, when we should not be able to carry one? Why do we see images of children burned by Napalm when such a horrible thing would not be created or used by a higher being like God? How could such injustices happen if God is inside us?

The answer is very simple. Religion and those in power constantly tell us that God is outside the universe or doesn't exist at all. Even when we read the bible we have been brain washed to interpret it a certain way, even when the text clearly says something very different. Many have found the divine within themselves, and the divine within communicates to divine outside. People first have to at least consider the possibility to be able to see the possibility.

Part of your response is confusing to me since I never said there was no God. But, to answer the questions in your first paragraph: Confusion. That is the answer to all of those questions, simple confusion. Confusion about our true nature and what it really means to be. If we first look to knowing what, and who, we truly are then much of the confusion is cleared up. There is a basic mystery inherent in existence, certain paradoxical facets to reality. Once we get some clarity on what/who we truly are those paradoxes can be embraced and are not confusing. Who is to say you were born human and not eternal in existence? Without knowing, for yourself, what/who you truly are you cannot answer that question. Check it out for yourself.

The tracking of time is just memory tracking change. The fact that we can find things against which to place this measure is simply an act of mental acrobatics, not providence. If we had decided a second was 2 seconds, we would have found the same number of measures. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Nothing is beautiful until you make it such. "Did all of this wonder and beauty come from inside us?" Yes and no. We, the apparent us, also came from the same source which is you. The absolute you. "Where did we come from?" Here. Where else? We are always here and have always been. "Where are we going?" Here. Where else is there to go? Whenever you go 'there', you only find that you have arrived 'here.' "Is this life worth living if God in in us, but we can't fix what's wrong with the world?" We can fix what's wrong with the world. The issue is not capability, but choice. For the most part we simply do not choose to fix the world. We have the resources, the know how, and the man power to do it. We just don't.

I realize there is confusion, because I find this idea of God in all of us more and more, and I don't understand it. I know that God's qualities can be seen in creation-the massive complexity of spacial bodies in the universe which in their placement and movement allow us to track time itself. Certain flowers are more beautiful than the rarest gems, yet they bloom, die and fall to the ground. More emerge to replace them. Hummingbirds are living gems, their iridescent bodies glimmering in the sunlight. The myriad subcultures in the world have created thousands of culinary delights, so we may never enjoy them all. Did all of this wonder and beauty come from inside us? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Is this life worth living if God in in us, but we can't fix what's wrong with the world?

adam's perfect life? i don't understand your reasoning, or what you are talking about. You are thinking way too hard.

Ok. First there is alot of assumption in this statement. No one knows what the "original" intention was. To claim to know that is to claim you are God. The eating of the forbidden fruit was a sin. A sin is a wrong, and they wronged God, by disobeying God. Later laws placed onto the israelites had nothing to do with the past, but the present days they were in. It was not for adam, but for moses, and everyone else that lived, as a way for them to atone for their sins, before the ultimate sacrifice could be made. There are always 2 versions of things in the bible. Spirtual and physical. What the father does the son does. What happens on earth happens in heaven. Earth is just a weak model of what is in heaven. Another note, that I mentioned before; To say that God could not or would not do anything is putting limits on God. You cannot put limits on God. Mankind has limits. Not God. If God had limits then what kind of God would He be? The only being in the universe worthy to atone for the sins of the universe is God himself. Anything else would be too weak.