Though I'm still not sure what I think, I definitely see God as more like a presence than a conscious being. I don't see him as a guy sitting in a throne in heaven... I don't even believe in heaven and hell. When I look up into a clear, starry night sky, I see God. When I look over the Appalachain Mountains from the overlook near my place in Asheville, I see God. When I see photos of planets and galaxies and the hubble deep field, I see God. I also see God in living things: people, trees, etc.
I believe that God is life and that God is present in all living things... perhaps even that God IS all living things. I don't believe at all in God being "vengeful" or "peaceful" or "loving," because that indicates that God thinks as a person thinks, which I don't think is really true or even possible.
I don't believe in "good" and "evil," because those are relative ideas - what is good to one is bad to another, and only a very species would really believe that just because something bad happens to it, God is punishing it or that if something good happens, God is rewarding it - that would indicate God's favoritism between one species and another, which I don't think exists, because all living things are equal. Some good and evil has to happen to each living thing in order for life to survive... if nothing evil ever happened to rabbits and other small woodland creatures, that would mean their predators would go hungry. If nothing good ever happened to them, it would mean they went extinct. If nothing bad ever happened to foxes, small woodland creatures would go extinct, and if nothing good ever happened to them, small woodland creatures would be overpopulating their habitats.
I don't believe that God created us or any other single living thing in his image - I believe that all living things are created "in his image." I also don't believe that any species, especially ours, was ever given a divine mandate to take power over the earth and rule it as he sees fit. Were that the case, I don't think we'd be destroying it as we are. Does that really make any sense to you?
I'll leave you with a parable by Daniel Quinn:
An anthropologist gets the opportunity to travel far into the past, when the jellyfish was the most highly evolved species on Earth.
He walks along the ocean, until he comes in contact with a jellyfish floating in the water.
"Hello," he says to the jellyfish, "I was wondering if I could ask you a question."
"Sure," says the jellyfish. "Shoot."
"Alright, I was curious - do you jellyfish have a creation myth? A story about how and when you were created?"
"We don't have a myth," says the jellyfish, "but we do have a story. It's true, however.. not a myth."
"Well, that's fine. Could I hear it?"
So the jellyfish tells his story:
"Several billion years ago, the universe came into existence. We're not sure exactly how or why, but what we do know is that it most likely started with an exponential growth from a single point. The universe expanded for a long time, until finall stars, galaxies, and planets formed. One of these planets, our Earth, was created about 3.5 to 4 billion years ago.
Eventually, life began to evolve on Earth. First single-celled organisms, then bacteria and other more complicated life forms.
Finally, after millions of years of evolution," the jellyfish said, beaming with pride, "jellyfish arrived."
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