Just as a personal statement, I would like to tell you that I think your answers were VERY well thought out.
You show a deep and powerful connection to your spirituality, and an unshakeable intellect. That is, if you ask me, far more valuable than blind faith. You willingly ask the questions that shake YOU, and then give those answers up to your life, and thus to your gods. That, in my opinion, is a sacrifice far above and beyond the usual fare of the Divine.
One of my favorite opposing arguments I hear from people is whether the gods are individual, or one great being with lots of masks.
It's interesting to me, because I've learned that any time one is presented with a seeming paradox in nature, it's fastest to just acknowledge that both are true, and let the reason present itself.
For example, when I work with deities, I work with them under the understanding that they are all one great divine power, and that the face is merely a facet. To which, one of them said the following: "Of course we're just faces of the Grand Divine! But so are you! And so is everything, so that's just silly. You don't go up to your grandmother and say, 'You're just a mask for the family, and that's all,' when you first come up to her, do you?"
So, yes. Gods are apparently all secretly one, and the Faces and Names we call on are merely Masks. But try telling THEM that! *laughs*
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You show a deep and powerful connection to your spirituality, and an unshakeable intellect. That is, if you ask me, far more valuable than blind faith. You willingly ask the questions that shake YOU, and then give those answers up to your life, and thus to your gods. That, in my opinion, is a sacrifice far above and beyond the usual fare of the Divine.
One of my favorite opposing arguments I hear from people is whether the gods are individual, or one great being with lots of masks.
It's interesting to me, because I've learned that any time one is presented with a seeming paradox in nature, it's fastest to just acknowledge that both are true, and let the reason present itself.
For example, when I work with deities, I work with them under the understanding that they are all one great divine power, and that the face is merely a facet. To which, one of them said the following: "Of course we're just faces of the Grand Divine! But so are you! And so is everything, so that's just silly. You don't go up to your grandmother and say, 'You're just a mask for the family, and that's all,' when you first come up to her, do you?"
So, yes. Gods are apparently all secretly one, and the Faces and Names we call on are merely Masks. But try telling THEM that! *laughs*