#1. Does God Have a Mind that Thinks?
People naturally assume that God thinks. After all, we were created in His/Her image and likeness, so it is obvious that God thinks. God merely has a bigger, grander model of brain-power than his creations have.But is this kind of thinking realistic? In order for people to think, what is required? Answer: a human body, a healthy brain, a central nervous system, and one more thing -- you must be alive (a corpse does not think). Yet, God does not have a brain nor a human body (or any type of animalistic form, for that matter). Jesus taught as much, saying God is SPIRIT and we must appreciate and connect with God through our Spirit -- not through our mind (John 4:24).
I suggest that God does not 'think' as you and I think. Rather, God's Intelligence System functions more like the heart than the mind. The heart doesn't think, it simply knows. It is holistic in nature. It does not operate in a logical, sequential manner.
This would imply that our true identity is spiritual -- that we were created in the image of God with heart-intelligence. And later on ... God created the human body ... that thinks.
posted by Virgil at 12:51 AM
8 Comments:
Perhaps you're simply making a big assumption that a brain and body are required for thinking. Perhaps all "thinking" is spiritual.
I tend to agree with Rev. Brewer. I've always felt that God maintained no physical characteristics, gender, race, ethnicity or "human" likeness. God is Creator and Spirit capable of any and all things. Jesus is a son as we are all sons and daughters. He was choosen for and accepted the mission of bring us, the flock, back to the fold which is Gods' truth.
To think that if God had a mind that thinks... makes one wonder just how mischievious he would be!
I WONDER!
Anonymous,
Could it be that the Heart of God is Love, which created you and me to do all His thinking ... which has turned out to be quite mischievous indeed!
Yeah,Virgil, I wonder if he has any regrets! With the way some of us think! what a challenge it has become!
I do not think that God has a mind to think. I believe that God is pure Love and Spirit; I do not understand how something intangible can think. I see God’s Love as rays from the sun, does the sun discriminate who or what it shines on? No. Our issues are the clouds that we choose to let block the sun. Does the sun put the clouds between the earth and itself?
I think that we are all one in the spirit (hey didn’t they write a song about that?). What I do not understand is why were born. If the purpose of our life is to know God (Truth and Love), by returning to that state of pure spirit or total connection with God, why were we born in the flesh to begin with?
Some think of God as a single being that is seperate from everything that is created and some think of God as the combination of everything. However, if God is the latter how can he/she have a mind?
I think that God is in everything and the "mind" part comes from a simple analogy of the internet. The internet is a single thing but at the same time it is the collection of all the computers and resources that combine it together. It helps me to think of God in this fashion as I think we get into trouble by trying to make God into our image by insisting that he is an individual being like ourselves.
Greetings from Traverse City.
Sure do miss the after class and Sunday after meeting get togethers and the Unity community (Tioshpeya) we had... These "think" pieces on the website reminded me of all the thoughtful topics Virgil inspired. We have a fairly small Unity church in T.C. but it's a 40 minute drive, so I don't go very often.
Hope the blog site continues to bring in new members. Unity Chapel is a great place to be.
Patricia Weberman
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