Ouroboros

Since I haven't posted in a while, I figured I'd put this up. I didn't originally write this for the blog, just for myself. I can't even say exactly when I wrote it, but it was roughly two years ago. This is a summation of my religious beliefs, at least at that time. I say that because I'm not entirely sure I feel the same way as I did then, but to some degree it explains a bit of what I still believe. Nevertheless, I thought it would make for a good enough post in it's own right, without me updating it. I also realize that I worded things strangely, and if I were to write something like this now, it would have a very different tone to it. Well, here it is, in whatever degree of coherency it might be:

Many say that they believe God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. I'd say that, too. However, I don't think most really take the time to try to fully understand what those words actually mean. God is the universe and even more so. These are my own assumptions, but even so, I would say that their validity is not to be compromised. Man, in his spiritual yearnings, has come to describe the expansiveness of our universe in terms that he can relate to. That is to say, he compares the idea of God to himself, anthropomorphizing God, and essentially limiting God to this image. God is life. God is death. God is animate. God is inanimate. God is the ouroboros, but calling all of this God is confining, just as imparting the title “Father”. So by me calling God “ouroboros," I should think more about its representation rather than the simple image of a snake eating its own tail. It represents the constant flow of the universe and that the universe is self-sustaining.

Yet, considering God to be the universe, for however expansive it may be, is still a limitation. These beliefs of mine are encompassed by the religion of sorts called panentheism. The literal translation of the term is "all in God" and comes from the Greek language. This means God is imminent and also transcendent. This correlates somewhat with the belief of many Christians that Jesus was both man and God. I agree, but I also say it goes far beyond Jesus, whomever he might have actually been. God's "fingerprints" are all over the universe, and all that spawns from God remains a part of God, "universal DNA," if you will. We will never be able to truly describe or understand God, because, again, description and understanding are limited by our own experiences. I don't exactly "worship," instead I revel in the thought of being a part of God and try to better understand what this means.