The only good answer to all of the questions about God is a face to face encounter.
It is just that simple. Everything else is simply imagination and speculation.
This website is all about God. Not the "God" of scriptures, not the "God" of religions, not the "God" of believers, not the "God" of dictionaries, and not the "God" of atheists and agnostics. It is all about the phenomenon that can be experienced face to face, but almost never is. It is about the phenomenon that dwarfs the most far reaching human imagination of transcendant divinity and perfection, but is almost never seen. It is about the the radiance that floods like light at the surface of the sun, and the blinding beauty that is experienced as infinite and perfect love, but by only a few among billions.
It is amazing that one of our most revered symbols, the word "God", represents something that almost no one has actually seen. It is even more amazing that so many people who have never seen this phenomenon believe themselves to be authorities or experts on it, because of what they have thought, heard, felt, and read. And it is sad that the many ideologies ostensibly devoted to this phenomenon not only misrepresent it, they become barriers to the experiencing of it.
I have actually experienced the phenomenon that you would immediately and with absolute certainty call God. I experienced it directly, face to face.
Because of that experience and the way it affected how I see, and because it seems that others could experience what I did, I have written this website. I have also done this in large part to counterbalance what is at best well-intended misinformation.
I do not have any beliefs regarding the subject of God, whatever you imagine that word means. I consider any form of belief, either positive or negative in regards to the unknown, to be a poor substitute for exploration and discovery.
Disclaimer
I realize that some of the things I am asserting put me in some pretty wacky company, and I wish there was a way to be forthright without this consequence. Let me simply say that what I have published on this website is not intended to provide a basis for any kind of belief. It is intended only to offer considerations which encourage open-minded exploration. When encountered, the truth negates all belief.
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