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    What God Is and Is Not
    What God Is and Is Not
    What God Is and Is Not
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    What God Is and Is Not

    By Lloyd E. McIlveen

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    God, spirituality, and atheism are thought of with incompatible perception throughout the world.

    Is that the way it was meant to be? Is that the way people arranged it to be, or has it just been happenstance occurrences?

    These texts of what God and spirituality are or are not are primarily intended to help allow insight for clarifying any enhancement or doubt concerning how one may choose to believe.

    Whichever occurs, in the process of broadening the individuals scope, the results attained will be beneficial in building a comfort of security within to live life without doubt or question of right, wrong, good, or bad way to go.

    Its a view of the birthright everyone has to practice their chosen manner of believing after becoming aware of alternatives and feasibilities, opportunities, and other availabilities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMar 13, 2014
    ISBN9781490707617
    What God Is and Is Not
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    Lloyd E. McIlveen

    Your author, Lloyd E. McIlveen, unveils a chronological list of many and various book subjects presenting controversial, educational, uplifting, futuristic, self helping, philosophical, psychological, entertaining and other stimulating concepts of which are and will be displayed with brief descriptions of each book followed by more issues in line as they become published to the public. The list is growing and will continue to grow.

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      What God Is and Is Not - Lloyd E. McIlveen

      Copyright 2014 Lloyd E. McIlveen.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-0762-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-0761-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013913724

      Trafford rev. 04/08/2016

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      Contents

      Chapter 1 Which was first, existence or God?

      Chapter 2 Was God discovered or invented? When?

      Chapter 3 God; a public servant?

      Chapter 4 The value of Deity/God and when to retain it

      Chapter 5 Patience and its infinite influence

      Chapter 6 We think our minds are free to believe

      Chapter 7 Is God making our world better or worse? Oh, He's not in charge of that?

      Chapter 8 Many gods were idolized in ancient times. Now, there are many less. Do we have a choice?

      Chapter 9 The world is competing for supremacy or is it Supreme Being?

      Chapter 10 Is God surviving? Are we? Past tense value?

      Chapter 11 Are we being led or are we on our own? Whatever, we only believe what we think we know

      Chapter 12 Is our destiny planned or do we form it?

      Chapter 13 What more can God do or be?

      Chapter 14 Spiritual emergence

      Preface

      The belief and mind-set of spirituality

      The need for spiritual support and gratification has been around for a long time. Although those wondrous beliefs for some and perplexing beliefs for others have outlasted and retained in most realms of life including wars, various disputes and religious differences of all natures, they have offered certain contentments of which humanity has depended and relied on for thousands of years.

      The theological and conventional expression of God or a superior and supreme entity is, supposedly, in charge or controls everything in all existences everywhere. That in itself is almost inconceivable. So, with some limits in mental resources, we settle for just believing and let it be, right?

      You are not expected, in these scripts, to agree with any anonymously appearing conjectures on this obvious subject. Maybe for the present, just view them as precursory to the following elaboration and analysis of what seems a never ending concept and most widely used word on Earth; God. Spirituality is equally meaningful.

      Volumes of scrolls and books have recorded incidences, beliefs, experiences and opinions concerning what God did, does and will do. Affirmation and confirmation in one form or another always seemed to have initiated, supported and followed those inspirations in such a manner as being matter of facts.

      However, no one talks much about what God is other than love, a worshipped idol, divine guidance and creator of the universe. Very little is said about what God may not be such as a visual, touchable, approachable, dependable, lovable, affectionate and believable someone (they do refer to God as He). They talk and write about their most favorite desire; what God can do for them, not what they can do for God.

      Maybe we haven't been smart enough or haven't elevated our intelligence enough yet to have a clear perception of what God really is or furthermore, can be. This book is designed to delve into those possibilities of what God may be and what God may not be.

      Your author believes in striving with and for creative intelligence that may benefit advancing to new perceptive stages of belief. This will, in many cases, allow our believing process to grow beyond conventional and outdated beliefs pertaining to spirituality and God.

      Everyone has the right to spiritually believe in the manner they have chosen, have been traditionally raised with or have been obsessionally exploited by. We have the right to hang in there with presently rewarding beliefs appearing right and fulfilling. We also have the right to explore, without fear, any new avenues of thought which may change, increase and/or enhance our present manner and security of belief. After all, everything spiritually is a matter of belief and so it seems fitting for us to gather as much make sense evidence as we can to evaluate which manner of resolution we may adopt for relying on in this world of spiritual believing.

      The following chapters will unveil insight for probing and stretching our scope with attempts to understand more and intertwine conventional and nonconventional views, thoughts and ideas about these very profound concepts referred to as God, gods, spirituality, elevated consciousness or just believing. The more it makes sense, the more reliable our beliefs become.

      These scripts are a journey beginning with presently accepted rules and acquired religious beliefs and presently acquired nonreligious beliefs. Both of them are not interpreted to be wrong necessarily, just old fashioned and unnecessarily one way. These notes on spiritual observation, perspective and perception are offered for people who desire adding more to their personal portfolio of belief, truth and trust.

      The essence of this probing into what God is and isn't is to exercise birthrights to think and believe in possibilities and/or alternatives of the believing process and not be victimized into believing anything pertaining to absolutes and foreboding or misdirected states of consciousness.

      Freedom to probe and believe is primary without having to experience fear of reprisal for not joining any powerful regimes of influence; especially those of which seem to be compelled to collect money for their services like a purposely strived business. We must not let money be a perpetuating impetus for exercising spirituality.

      Chapter 1

      Which was first, existence

      or God?

      Since this appears what may be referred to as the king daddy of all questions, it seems important to note all first things must be viewed as a basis for determining the intrinsic value of whatever it may be (there are so many first things). In other words, was existence just there or was it created by something from nothing?

      Of course this talk of nothing sounds like ordinary human gibberish. How can nothing even be worth pointing out, right? That's the first question! Nothing is just as difficult to fathom as is something or everything. Without things involved, they are just different directions.

      Nothing has always been assumed as zero, right? No one has ever attached a value on anything less than zero; only on zero plus. Sure, there is minus one, minus two etc., but those are only numbers and very difficult to transform into a minus ten boxes of apples or a minus rocketship lift off. How about eating a minus breakfast? Everything that happens, whether it is a wonderful occasion or a disaster, is something happening. It is a plus existence as compared to a nothing existence where nothing isn't doing anything at all. Did you ever see a stage-play doing nothing?

      All this nothingness may be termed as abstract, but remember, abstract art or abstract thinking in general almost always involves some form of object or direction which is something plus an object or something plus a direction. Nothingness has nothing of anything.

      The logic of a human mind infers something is only a something because it was created or made somehow. It couldn't just pop out of nowhere without something forming it.

      The space of nothing is, indeed,

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