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Fractional Gods: Humanity's Divine Fire

''I, God Most High, say, “You are gods, my own children.'' - Psalm 82:6 by Michael Corthell In John 10:34-36 , Jesus quotes Psalm 82:6 and uses it to defend his own claim to divinity: "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be broken, do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am a Son of God'?" In 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Paul tells the Corinthian believers that they are "God's temple"(the spiritual temple where God lives) and that the Spirit of God dwells in them: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple." "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do;  an

One is the Only Number that Matters

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind,  because oneness is the secret of everything.” ― Swami Vivekananda A s a practical matter, if we want to preserve our planet's ability to provide a viable, life sustaining ecosystem, we all must come to understand that all lives are connected, and interrelated. We must understand that what we think, what we say, what we do, and what we believe has a corresponding effect on others, and the entire universe. “Technology is destructive only in the hands of people  who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ” ― Alan Watts