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Get To Know God (GTKG) 101

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jar
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06-05-2005 1:26 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by purpledawn
06-05-2005 10:45 AM

I'm not sure that your first assumption is correct.
You start with:
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Per the Christian Religion, one must get to know their God.
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but I'm not sure that is what is really taught or said except by some Christians. If GOD exists then She is GOD. She is the God of the Jews and Christians and Muslims and Atheists and Agnostics and Buddhists and Hindus and Wiccans. That is pretty clearly stated in the Bible through the statement "I am."
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I cannot address the mainstream process but only the path I experienced.
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Learning about GOD began even before I could talk. Mom would read from the Bible each night and as I and the blue skizillion of young'ens that followed me grew up, we would attend Church every Sunday. The exploration of other paths to GOD was also a major step and was begun sometime around fifth or sixth grade, first by attending Synagogue and joining in meals with my Jewish friends and later in a slightly more formal way during Upper School.
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09-05-2006 11:29 AM 		Reply to: Message 22 by Phat
09-05-2006 8:41 AM

Re: GTKG: Tear down the wall!
Then God is EVIL!
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09-05-2006 8:53 PM 		Reply to: Message 29 by Archer Opteryx
09-05-2006 7:13 PM

Re: dsv's GTKG Step 1
It starts off right away telling you that as soon as you invent a word for it, you are no longer talking about reality, but about your idea of it.
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This puts everything that follows into proper persective. All words are limited.
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Absolutely. To hope to ever get to know GOD you must first throw away God.
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