{"id":386,"date":"2008-09-07T04:20:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/09\/god-has-a-purpose.html"},"modified":"2008-09-07T04:20:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T04:20:58","slug":"god-has-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/09\/god-has-a-purpose.html","title":{"rendered":"God has a purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this, the fifth week of our Sunday School All Week<\/strong> program, we tackle the question, “What is God’s purpose?”
\nWe have now established in this class that God does exist. And we have discussed the exact nature of God; who and what God is. We have made it clear that God is not a Bigger Than Life Human, sitting up in the sky somewhere, on a throne, with flowing garments and a long white beard.
\nOf course, no one actually believes that in the 21st Century (or at least not very many<\/em> people believe it), but do they actually know Who and What God is? For most, I am going to venture to say, the answer is no.
\nSo, for the purposes of this class, I am going to recap some of that here.
\nThat which we call “God” is not a “person,” but an energy. It is the energy that we might call Pure Intelligence. Intelligence is an energy, it is not a physical thing; not a physical body. At least, not in the classic and most readily understood sense of the word “physical.”
\nIn actuality, all things in existence are physical – both the seen and the unseen – but that is a very esoteric point of discussion of physics and metaphysics which need not be entered into here for us to have a clearer understanding of “God.”
\nIf we can accept the fact that what we call “God” is Pure Intelligence, then we are on our way to understanding a great deal about our relationship with God, about What God Wants, and about what God’s purpose is.
\nPure Intelligence knows everything about everything and, in fact, is<\/em> everything, because everything that has ever been made has been made through a process requiring Pure Intelligence.
\nTo put this simply, if God had not “thought” of it, it could not exist – any more than anything can exist in your<\/em> reality that you do not think of or cannot imagine or that is beyond your comprehension.
\nEverything in your reality must be thought of first. You must have a thought about it before you can have an experience of it. This is the answer to the age-old question, “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” The answer is, no. Because “sound” is a phenomenon requiring a response<\/em> for the hearer. If a sound is not heard, it is not a “sound.”
\nSimilarly, nothing is anything if it is not thought of or about in some way.
\nIt is the act of thinking<\/em> about a thing that places it there, in your reality. Therefore, thinking is the first step in the Process of Creation.
\nThere are three steps in this process: Thought, Word, and Deed. Thought always comes first. It can be no other way.
\nSo God is Pure Intelligence, or Pure Thought. Out of this Thought arose everything that Is.
\nSomeone once asked me if it was true that “God knows our every thought.” I replied, “Of course it is true, because your thought is God’s thought. No thought can exist outside of Thought – and Thought is the Essence of God.”
\nThis is the nature of what people call “fate.” Fate is the outcome that derives From All Thoughts Everywhere. F-A-T-E is an acronym for just that.
\nSo Thought is very powerful – and collective<\/em> thought is especially so.
\nSo we know that God IS – God exists – but we have not yet discussed God’s purpose. I will state it for you now.
\nGod’s purpose is to Know Itself in Its Own Experience, and thus to fully Be.
\nTo simply Know, without Experiencing what is known, would not be fully Being. There are three parts to God: Knowing-Experiencing-Being.
\nFirst…comes the Knowing, the product of Pure Intelligence. God knows Everything, and God IS Everything that is Known, because the Knowing of something is what produces it in Ultimate Reality.
\nSecond…comes the Experiencing. God chooses to Experience everything that God Knows of Itself – and this is the reason for all of physical life. Physicalization is the process by which God Experiences what God Knows of Itself.
\nThird…comes the Being. This is the combination of the Knowing and the Experiencing. One is “being” something when one, first, knows that one is that, and then, second, experiences oneself AS that.
\nLet us use an example, to help make this clear to the mind.
\nSuppose that you KNOW yourself as That Which Is Love. All of this is well and good, but unless you have an EXPERIENCE of your Self as that – unless you can actually demonstrate “lovingness” – you can never fully BE love. You must move from Concept to Expression in order to Realize Fully who and what you are.
\nYou must Physicalize what you Conceptualize in order to Self-Realize.
\nYour Self Realization is a process of Conceptualization and Physicalization.
\nThe same is true – the exact<\/em> same thing is true – for God.
\nSo we are clear, then, that God has a purpose. Its purpose is to Be. Its process is to Experience what It Knows of Itself, so that fully Being becomes possible.
\n(Next Sunday: Gods function – a look at how all this is done.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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