Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
White Papers
God, Supernatural Being
God, the supernatural being, is not needed to feel social and belong to a community. God is not needed to feel free with a sense of individuality, and indeed, it seems reasonable to assume that the farther away one is from their supernatural being, the more one feels free to exercise their choice, a'firm their faith..that if they believe that the divine words are absolutely true, only good things will happen. Also, God is not needed to be moral with a social conscience. Nor is God needed to love more than one's self..nor to just like one's self. Such an anthropocentric supernatural being who created humankind in his image, is not needed for all these things.
To refer to God as "He" means to grant gender to God. To refer to God as "She" or "It" as God, means to worship Her or It with supernatural eyes and ears through which they sense. Any reference to God as He, She, or It should be used only if that is the intent, what is meant. And those who need supernatural He, She, or He'She to love others and like one's self, it is prudent and acceptable..and it is hoped by the rest of us that they believe in their God, and keep their faith..and work hard to forego their conceptions of evil by transferring those judgments about anyone to their God..be the good..for where there is perception of evil, there is no compassion there. Only hate.
Without perception of evil, there is rather, compassion for the sick and tragedy, the emotionally traumatized and scared, the oppressed who have become the predators of society. There is the 'evil seed,' but it is only an invention of fear and hate. Those who believe in evil where compassion cannot be are collectively an underground river from which the sick and tragic perpetually flow. Perceptions of evil cause hate, and hate is the bottomless well from which the seven deadlies spring.
The word, evil, is the reversal of 'live' and opposes life, and when held to be divine truth, disables the soul from fully living. Anywhere where compassion cannot be, disable the living from fully living.