IN-God / OF-God, Q & A

Q:  Where did the universe come from?

A:  God.  For the universe is IN God.

Q:  Where did our awareness of ourselves come from?

God.  For our awareness too is IN God.

Q:  Where did good and evil come from?

God.  For morality is also IN God.

Q:  Where did human values come from?

God.  For ethics is also IN God as well.

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Q:  Wait a minute, how can this be?  For if all is IN God, how then can goodness be separate and holy, and salvation exalted and sanctified?

A:  God.  Goodness and and salvation are simply IN-God.  While what makes them holy and sanctified are OF-God.  For everything IN God can be found OF God.

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Q:  Okay, so is a giant tsunami which kills multitudes OF God?

A:  No.  But the tsunami is yet IN God.

For while death from the tsunami is IN God

Compassion for those killed is OF God.

Likewise technology for early tsunami detection is OF God.

Q:  So is hatred OF God?

A:  No.  But hatred is yet IN God.

For while hate is IN God, forgiveness for hate is OF God.

Likewise material peace in the world is OF God.

Q:  Okay, so is a sunny day OF God?

A:  No.  But sunny days are yet IN God.

For while a sunny day is IN God, the appreciation of it is OF God.

Likewise choosing to go out into the sun is OF God.

Q:  So is happiness OF God?

A:  No.  But happiness is yet IN-God.

For while happiness is IN-God, the joy found in embracing happiness is OF-God.

Likewise choosing to make that happiness real to others is OF-God.

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For OF God

Is the very providence

IN God.

Because providence is by definition

That which is always in spite of

Whatever may be worried to be found IN God.

In this way both the affirmation and negation of all things are IN-God.

But it is the negation OF negation of these multitudinous things which is OF-God.

So ultimately God is the on-going birth of all things out of all things.

Kenosis!  Emptying all things out from themselves into greater life!

God is the ultimate LIVE broadcast!

And you are on in 5, 4, 3, 2…

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Q:  Okay, smarty pants!  So where did God come from?

A:  Nothing.  For if IN-God is everything

Then OF-God is the negation of everything into nothing.

That is, there is NOTHING to answer that.

And yet nothing is still something.

Which is why everything is still IN-God.

Now go, be born anew in this, and live IN-God and OF-God.