{"id":686,"date":"2015-07-12T10:18:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T10:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2024-01-15T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:47:22","slug":"god-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/articlespapers\/god-and-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"God and Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder if those who have an overwhelming reliance on God might also benefit from learning about His creation nature.\u00a0 Are God and Nature more proximal?\u00a0 I can imagine a world where a church becomes more of an energizer when you need spiritual enlightenment and learning about inspirational living in a context with all of Nature and humanity with foundations of love, peace, harmony, and healthy living.\u00a0 I am not sure, but I believe that God probably does not want us to be a cheerleader as much as God wants us to live in harmony, peace, and love in the most genuine holistic way regardless of whether you call yourself an Atheist, Catholic or whatever religion you want to call yourself as long as you are living in a natural holistic, sustainable striving way which strives to minimize detrimental impacts on humanity and Nature.\u00a0 It seems weird to me that some cheerleaders of God in some religions have been very detrimentally impacting and have delved deeper into reading the Bible or Kuran and searching for different ways to construe it.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it really about how you want to construe the Bible or Kuran or whatever?\u00a0 It is this all-important context that determines the motivations of the individual and which path each person chooses to live life.\u00a0 I favor the churches becoming houses of God and Nature more and an educational spiritual enlightenment place instead of a place of confusion.\u00a0 It should be a place where we form community harmony instead of a place for ultra-competitive, detrimentally impacting, and often violent races for the \u201cbetter.\u201d God, Nature, and all houses of God and Nature in all denominations should be about keeping humanity striving for optimal harmony, peace, and love in context with humankind and Nature and a place to get everyone inspired to live a genuine holistic life no matter your starting point.\u00a0 All you need to know is love and strive to be genuinely holistic.\u00a0 It starts with loving, caring, sharing, giving, forgiving, and genuine kindness, striving to bring about conditions of comfort, joy, love, hope, faith, and sustainable striving for happiness.\u00a0 Then, we should read the Bible because it gives us an appropriate context to understand the main messages God wants us to understand.\u00a0 I wonder if the Bible was a test such that it is more about the context in which you read the Bible that matters more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder if those who have an overwhelming reliance on God might also benefit from learning about His creation nature.\u00a0 Are God and Nature more proximal?\u00a0 I can imagine a world where a church becomes more of an energizer when you need spiritual enlightenment and learning about inspirational living in a context with all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/articlespapers\/god-and-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God and Nature<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}