Interiorly

Its quite simple. Would you like to know? :)

It has been said earlier that God is not so much powerful as other things, it being alluded to that Power is a concentric thing instead of a dispersion thing. This idea comes mainly from the perspective that the rich, powerful and influential persons in society are also selfish and destructive to the "good people". Power is not egotistical. Just as in the first part of the presentation of the endowment all things go where they can grow and increase themselves. Power included. There are tons of parables about this too. Money will not go where money can't grow. Sickness will not grow where it can not grow. Power, love, compassion, mercy, luck, industry, compassion, fear, goldfish and wild flowers will NOT go where they can not increase themselves. If you are without something it is simply because you will not grow it. Simple. Intense wishing, desire and the furry of entitlement can never change that; especially a sense of being wronged. If you villanize power, wealth or influence you will never have it no matter now bi-polar your opinion of it is. God's reward to us is on the same grounds as his reward to himself. He is, after all, no respecter of persons, including himself. Salvation is of faith that it might be by grace so that the ends of the promise might be sure to all the seed. It had to be free, how else would it be obtained? Free does not mean on sale or for ANY price. We don't do 20% and he comes down and makes up the difference, that's absurd. The grace and condescension of God, his Infinite and Eternal Atonement is just all that. He comes 100% of the way all of the time. God is not sitting on a throne on some planet next to Kolob any less than he is sitting in the chair next to you, your friend and loved one :) It is all on faith. If you thought you exercised faith and didn't receive it was simply because what you thought faith in God was really was not :). He makes the rules and the one law that governs them all is Faith. Otherwise our sense of lack and distance puts doubt in us and with that doubt confidence is lost. :)

God is certainly much of what God is, if not nearly entirely, because of the "water drop effect". When you put a drop of water on a table surface and add another drop to it the drop expands. All knowledge, intelligence, power and glory etc are shared jointly, no matter if you are the 2nd drop or the 1mil drop. There are plenty of parables about this. God indeed has greater power because he is merciful and compassionate and his justice is Faith. Glory and power and intelligence and knowing is had through open mutual sharing. When my friend has a great day my day increases more than I could have managed on my own because I am connected to my friend. The more friends I have the better. Their victory is mine. In a more perfect sense when God has one of his children increase he increases as well. It is easy to assume that when a child decreases God does too but this isn't the case. Because God is not adversely effected by lies our downward experiences are not detrimental to him but rather progressive in compassion and mercy. Also the salvation of God is not shortened or his ability to save reduced and anyone who he intended to save he will. When he does is another discussion :)

This neither talks of God or uplifts one in need. Intellectually accurate? Yes. Effective in court? Yes. Encouraging of salvation or providing progress in it? No. I am sad to say this but religious intellectualism is no replacement for true and powerful spirituality and it is the latter that people need, not the former. Life is distracting enough and those in search of God are encountering enough struggles to find road blocks on a forum like this. I look forward to all of your uplifting posts and comments in the future :)

I understand what you are saying. Our view of God is just that..OUR view. Rarely is our view of God how God views himself. As a result what we think God is and what God really is are two different things. Many will say that we have the correct doctrine of God so we as LDS are right. This is true in word but not in interpretation. If you have been awake during the temple endowment session you will have noticed that we who are sitting there have very well received the "philosophies of men mingled with scripture". If we truly had what we said, we would have what we said and the world would have been transformed as the city of Enoch during the period of the Restoration. The very mission of the priesthood, as Alma correctly detailed, is to be so filled with the presence of God that all mankind (with the exception of the handful sons of perdition) upon meeting such a person would instantly be touched with the Spirit and experience communion with God himself and from that point forever onward advance in the salvation of God unimpeded. You have hit the nail in the head. And it is a shame that you are looked down on for doing so. ********The purpose of a member of the church, especially a priesthood bearer, as far as their relationship to the world is two fold, the second is to teach correctly who God is, his character, powers, will and intention and his means of atonement and then to introduce you to God himself as the Father was familiar to the Son so would the Son be familiar to you.********** (John 14,17; D&C1 etc.) The first is to first have this relationship themselves. The second can not be given unless the first is had. Enoch's ordination even shows this. You have not been given what you have sought because no one who proposed to you that they had it actually did. If they did the promise in the scriptures mentioned above and many others would come true. God is the same yesterday, today and forever and is no respecter of persons. Unlearn the philosophies of men mingled with scripture. Learn from God who God is as Moroni exhorts. May God's peace be with you.

The omnipotence of God is among the first and most common ideas about God that is forgotten among men and women. We have ideas that God is good and our concepts of good and the laws of the universe, with our common ideas of goodness, are frequently in upheaval when we see pain and suffering. Especially when contrasted with a good God as we define Him. Agency is also misunderstood by us too, especially by the well-intended-Christian, and as a result a lot of holes pop up in our making sense of ourselves, the world and of God. These results have painful repercussions in ourselves, our neighbor and our loved ones. Newton's Laws of Motion and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle are the two principles in cosmology and quantum mechanics that address this question. It has great importance to us as LDS and as members of the community. Einstein believed Newton's laws of motion which simply states that "God doesn't play dice with the Universe." That all known and unknown events in history and all events in the calculable and unknown future were put into motion and predetermined from the Big Bang. That through the order and motion of the beginning the end and everything in between life was determinable based on cascading cause and effect upon cascading and effect from "the beginning". Your meeting your neighbor and sharing an egg was known and put into motion in the beginning; so was the birth of your first child and the car accident that killed your mother. Everything was calculated and set in motion. Then came along Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Observer Effect. Simply put: Changes happen, you can't know everything from the start because man can choose and change his fate. Both are right. God is Omniscient and Omnipotent and man has agency. The complexity and extent of the Big Bang of popular science, the Beginning of Christianity is overlooked by scientists and Christians alike. God's wisdom and power were SO extant perfect from everlasting to everlasting as to include seamlessly and beautifully agency inside of predetermine-ism. God, the Universe, set in motion all cause and effect in time, created measure for agency and was so perfect in knowing also knew what agency would meet out for each agent individually as they made their choices. Determined eternity contains in itself the value of choice and is so perfect in its determinism that even the infinite variety of choice, of agency was known. The fore-knowledge of God is more pervasive and powerful than we imagine; as well as what extent of the agency of man can accomplish. Agency's rules are few and simple. Its definition even more so. An agent is the sustaining and/or initiating force inside of something that creates movement or change at its beginning or along its course. Agency has only three rules. 1) Higher agents control lesser agents. 2)a.There is always a stronger agent b. God is the strongest agent of all, more than all combined. and 3) The strongest agent always wins. If I as a stronger agent and being more intelligent, ie. having more laws working together for my common good and fueled by my agency, than a rock I will be able to pick that rock up and throw it. If I am not more intelligent or using my agency the rock falls on my foot and can break my toe. Life happens to be a place where things act or are acted upon and my ability to act was created in the beginning and known from the beginning. The fact is that God is even more Omnipotent and Omniscient BECAUSE there is agency . Especially when we see his agency satisfy and fulfill the salvation of mankind. (more for another day) Einstein's Theories of Relativity simply states that Time and Influence are perfectly personal and dependent on the individual's relationship to the Universe by the rate of their progression. This is a great insight in to the salvation of God. Here are some references. The first two simply define much of the information stated earlier. EPR paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Observer effect - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Uncertainty principle - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia