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God knowledge consciousness
If a god were to be a material being then he would be limited to that material being an ultimate god would not be limited to any particular grouping of matter. we would not say god is a particular piece of matter any more than we say we(humans) are tied to a particular bit of matter. we consider ourselves to be the soul within the matter or apart from the matter. so an ultimate god would also not be a particular piece of matte but a soul or consciousness. God is consciousness and the ultimate consciousness. there are all sorts of human consciousnesses at all sort of different levels between us and an ultimate god. There would also be many possible additions to our consciousness on many levels. god is ultimate consciousness. Consciousness is knowledge. God is ultimate and complete knowledge. Science is the way toward knowledge science is based on rationality experimentation. we have to know all possibilities to really know knowledge that is where epistemology comes in it studies all possibilities critically and it tries to simply these possibilities so that they can be used by a limited conscious being in doing this he is studying god. only through this scientific study can we really know god. we have to accept that what we have come to believe religiously has been developed over time to solve certain problems and needs that we have. these ideas though they can be good are limited and can and will drag us down. We are beginning to realize that consciousness has many aspects to it. for instance, maybe we can not go the speed of light, we could still create a reality where conscious beings believe that they are going faster that the speed of light with all the consequences that that would entail like faster that light space ships traveling around the universe. Those consciousnesses can exist another example many strange thing happen to people many of them are not real and have no bases in science however to these people they are real and do effect then. consciousness can exist that are not based on reality. god has to know about this and all possible other consciousness. Why if there is an ultimate god that knows everything is every possible consciousness. should we strive for any thing? let him develop the consciousness. There exists the consciousnesses that are the developing consciousness and the more developed consciousness. Their consciousness is this consciousness. to deny them is to deny consciousness no matter what level. to say only the consciousness of a humans of certain types of religious beliefs is a silly as to say only consciousnesses of cat is allowed. no doubt there will be those that believe only these certain consciousness should exist and their consciousness has it potential like so many others consciousnesses that do not exist. god must be a keeper a keeper is one that allows other consciousness to exist or in some way sustains those consciousness. There can be human keepers. imagine people setting up a super duper computer that is really an experience machine within the experience machine are human consciousnesses for instance like people on star trek where they actually are experiencing traveling through the galaxy encountering all sorts of different like. these experiences could have no basis in reality like going faster than the speed of light. Of course keepers consciousness could also be kept or created artificially. When is a consciousness based on reality and when is it not based on reality? we really do not know because identical awarepaths are identical no matter how they are produced.