Today, inspired by Philip K. Dick, I wrote out my Exogenesis, and prompted Gemini 2.5 Pro thus:
Gemini, I would like help with a project. I want to give and explain my beliefs around God, and have you tell me what labels these beliefs might have, as well as the names of the people who held similar beliefs in the past:
#1: I believe God created everything, but the Bible itself was written by man. Some of what the Bible says about God is true, while some is false.
#2: I believe that God is fully Sovereign AND I believe that humans have a will. I think the term for this is Compatibilist, but not entirely sure. I believe that God created light to be a particle AND a wave, and even did so as a sign to us. It is impossible for light to be a wave AND a particle, for humans, but NOT for the Creator! I lean on this impossibility in support of another: God is fully Sovereign AND humans have a will. This will isn't fully free, we humans can't do things that are impossible, but it is free enough. We make choices. We learn.
#3: One of the ways that God gives humans a will is by hiding from them. If God appears to a human that previously believed there was no God, that would interfere with that human's will, so God doesn't do that.
#4: It takes Faith to know God, and God gives this Faith, and God distributes it same as other human attributes like height and IQ. God knows some humans will have enough Faith to seek and find God to some degree, but God didn't really choose exactly which human gets more faith, nor which humans are tall, but God did create the System that distributes these human attributes.
#5: God's purpose is to grow a family of beings that choose to love each other and choose to love God. God is creating this family, us! From God's perspective, God is creating God's family. From our perspective, we are living on Earth. As we make choices, live, grow, learn, God is teaching us how and why to choose love. God doesn't fully control us, because God wants thinking and feeling beings with a will of their own to be God's family. God did not create non-thinking robots, that would be boring for God.
#6: There is no actual Hell, but those that do evil, those that cause suffering, they will experience Hell on Earth, perhaps in other lifetimes, perhaps even as other beings. That is why there is suffering in this world. It is a necessary part of learning. God starts each of us as a fully selfish nothing, and through our conscious experience, God grows our eternal beings. If you abuse another, you will experience abuse, not as pointless suffering, but to develop sympathy. God IS love, and would not cause any pointless suffering, thus all suffering has a point. Even the deer who is pinned under a fallen tree, and dies suffering, starving, that suffering has a purpose.
#7: No part of our physical bodies, including our brains, survives death. But our conscious thoughts and experiences and choices and emotions, God is compiling those into our Permanent Beings. We will recognize those we have known on Earth once we are these Permanent Beings, not physically, but our true Selves we have become, with God's guiding.
#8: All that I have describe so far, is a simplified model of God. Humans are flawed, finite beings, while God is perfect and infinite. Therefore, no human can fully know God, including me! Therefore, my model of God is flawed too. But, it is the best fitting model I know, better than any I've heard.
ChrisGodgetti
Today, inspired by Philip K. Dick, I wrote out my Exogenesis, and prompted Gemini 2.5 Pro thus:
Gemini, I would like help with a project. I want to give and explain my beliefs around God, and have you tell me what labels these beliefs might have, as well as the names of the people who held similar beliefs in the past:
#1: I believe God created everything, but the Bible itself was written by man. Some of what the Bible says about God is true, while some is false.
#2: I believe that God is fully Sovereign AND I believe that humans have a will. I think the term for this is Compatibilist, but not entirely sure. I believe that God created light to be a particle AND a wave, and even did so as a sign to us. It is impossible for light to be a wave AND a particle, for humans, but NOT for the Creator! I lean on this impossibility in support of another: God is fully Sovereign AND humans have a will. This will isn't fully free, we humans can't do things that are impossible, but it is free enough. We make choices. We learn.
#3: One of the ways that God gives humans a will is by hiding from them. If God appears to a human that previously believed there was no God, that would interfere with that human's will, so God doesn't do that.
#4: It takes Faith to know God, and God gives this Faith, and God distributes it same as other human attributes like height and IQ. God knows some humans will have enough Faith to seek and find God to some degree, but God didn't really choose exactly which human gets more faith, nor which humans are tall, but God did create the System that distributes these human attributes.
#5: God's purpose is to grow a family of beings that choose to love each other and choose to love God. God is creating this family, us! From God's perspective, God is creating God's family. From our perspective, we are living on Earth. As we make choices, live, grow, learn, God is teaching us how and why to choose love. God doesn't fully control us, because God wants thinking and feeling beings with a will of their own to be God's family. God did not create non-thinking robots, that would be boring for God.
#6: There is no actual Hell, but those that do evil, those that cause suffering, they will experience Hell on Earth, perhaps in other lifetimes, perhaps even as other beings. That is why there is suffering in this world. It is a necessary part of learning. God starts each of us as a fully selfish nothing, and through our conscious experience, God grows our eternal beings. If you abuse another, you will experience abuse, not as pointless suffering, but to develop sympathy. God IS love, and would not cause any pointless suffering, thus all suffering has a point. Even the deer who is pinned under a fallen tree, and dies suffering, starving, that suffering has a purpose.
#7: No part of our physical bodies, including our brains, survives death. But our conscious thoughts and experiences and choices and emotions, God is compiling those into our Permanent Beings. We will recognize those we have known on Earth once we are these Permanent Beings, not physically, but our true Selves we have become, with God's guiding.
#8: All that I have describe so far, is a simplified model of God. Humans are flawed, finite beings, while God is perfect and infinite. Therefore, no human can fully know God, including me! Therefore, my model of God is flawed too. But, it is the best fitting model I know, better than any I've heard.
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