[Help] Is the god that normal Christians refer to the same as the one in the bible?

[lumineth Realm Lord]

So, if you read the Bible, and not just cherry pick the positive stuff, you'd see that the god being referenced is petty and vindictive.

However, I've been wondering. Are normal people, not religious scholars, not people who are fanatics, not people who use religion to bully others, just regular people, worshipping the actual god of the Bible, or an egregor of some form?

As in, did people collectively create an egregor who's actions and behaviors move with the times, and not only is separate from the biblical Yahweh, but nicer too? Or are people unknowingly feeding the biblical Yahweh?

 

[Mannimarco]

My personal gnosis is that every major movement/denomination/system of christianity has their own egregore of "god". I've done a fair amount of divination on exactly how old their "gods" are, and every answer has correlated to the approximate date of the denominations founding. Some of the answers were even more interesting, as I recall the divination said the Evangelical egregore started with the apocalyptic movement around 1000 AD, and the Charismatic egregore was created by the Cathars.

Just my two cents, take it for what it's worth. As you might imagine, opinions on such things vary a bit, to put it mildly.

 

[Ziran]

Are normal people, not religious scholars, not people who are fanatics, not people who use religion to bully others, just regular people, worshipping the actual god of the Bible, or an egregor of some form?

The worship, when successful, invokes a metaphorical crucible. On the surface it has a form, but in its essence, it's fundamentally empty.

For non-scholars, yes, they are invoking the proper energetic principle. You can hear it, when they gasp, and swoon, in their heartfelt devotion. The gasp, the swoon, and others, are types of psychic crucibles being formed, in the heart and mind. And that "absolute otherness" , the emptiness within the gasp or the swoon, or just prior to laughter, is a purely accurate conception of the Eternal-One

 

[Faria]

If you traced your ancestry back far enough, tens of thousands of years, and got a complete look at the personal lives of everyone involved, there's a near certainty that some of those people were truly horrible. If you go back enough generations, it's almost guaranteed that someone you thought was a blood relative, was not. It's doubtful that we are all descended exclusively from loving married people. Yet without those insane cannibalistic rapist killers, we would not exist. Our beloved grandparents would not exist. Theirs might not either. We don't see genocide and slavery, we see national flags which are almost all the result of all those horrible things our ancestors did. We don't think of mass murder commanded by evil warlords, we just wave the national flag of whatever country. They've got Christopher Columbus stuff all over Latin America and he was a real monster. Same with Jehovah in the Bible. The winding road that got us where we are required some cruel stuff and a lot of it happened to bad people.

Example, the bears and Ezekiel. You can read that as "God is an insane evil jerk," or you can read that as "negligent parenting leaves children exposed to serious dangers." I've seen Christians interpret it both ways, and either way their end result is reverence. They don't have a nice-guy version of Old Testament Jehovah, they mostly know that sometimes God will smash stuff for God's own reasons. They know God can be terrible, and they know they can't do anything about that. It is not necessary to assume they are praying to some "egregore." They are praying to God, the same one that creates and destroys all things.

 

[Sabbatius]

So, if you read the Bible, and not just cherry pick the positive stuff, you'd see that the god being referenced is petty and vindictive.

However, I've been wondering. Are normal people, not religious scholars, not people who are fanatics, not people who use religion to bully others, just regular people, worshipping the actual god of the Bible, or an egregor of some form?

As in, did people collectively create an egregor who's actions and behaviors move with the times, and not only is separate from the biblical Yahweh, but nicer too? Or are people unknowingly feeding the biblical Yahweh?

If we were to do the breakdown of what is considered the authentic source of Hebrew texts and incorporate regional references, what we discover is that much of the Canaanite influences may be the actual core source for the practice of Yahwism.

I highy recommend the narratives of the Ras Shamra texts to compare and contrast much of the similarities of Yahweh to Baal Haddad, I'lu and the elephant in the room of Athirat/Asherah as Yahweh's consort. I often find it amazing how influential the Midianite Thunder deity of Mount Horeb became the all powerful and only living God of all humanity. How the world went from Henotheism to strict Monotheism is an interesting research.

 

[TheMagician]

My personal gnosis is that every major movement/denomination/system of christianity has their own egregore of "god". I've done a fair amount of divination on exactly how old their "gods" are, and every answer has correlated to the approximate date of the denominations founding. Some of the answers were even more interesting, as I recall the divination said the Evangelical egregore started with the apocalyptic movement around 1000 AD, and the Charismatic egregore was created by the Cathars.

Just my two cents, take it for what it's worth. As you might imagine, opinions on such things vary a bit, to put it mildly.

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