Is it ok to cheat on my girlfriend with God (she is a girl).
I was asking him (I didn't know she was a girl at the time) for help when she spoke to me.
"Is this real?" I asked.
"Do you hear me?" she replied "Do you feel that?" at which I felt a grab of my balls.
No this is not some erotic story, mixing spirituality and porn. How cliche. No, this is more of a realization.
We take our time "Getting to know" the divine, making lots of clumsy mistakes and assumptions along the way. Eventually, if we are lucky and persistent enough, we get close enough for a kiss. That kiss is what hooks us and we always have it in the back of our minds, trying to progress further, attempting to find out where this may go. Soon, or maybe not time is so relative, we reach the point we have sought. A union with her, the divine, and everything for that matter. Its more than we could have imagined, and it when its done it seems to only have lasted an instant. Orgasmic indeed, we will never forget our first.
But what is the act of sex if not something spiritual? The smashing of two physical bodies together until the release of something we can't quantify, yet drives us from deep inside. A moment lost in the ethereal, and then back to reality. The big bang and the little bang, both the universes method of creation. Is this a coincidence? I find it seeming less plausible such a thing as a coincidence exists.
Interesting philosophical musing... leaves me pondering whether "cheating on someone with God" is actually an oxymoron...if God is good, and having a relationship with God is considered "right action," then doesn't the notion of "cheating" become semantically nonsensical?
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I agree, as the other reply alluded to, anytime we are talking of the divine it is nonsensical. It is the ineffable, so words will always fail. But this will not stop us from trying to paint a linguistic picutre, or enjoying the failed attempts of others ;)
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I must confess that I'm way out of my depth here, as I haven't taken a careful look at theological questions in a long time. But I've always felt that if the divine is good and true and right, then experience of it and relationship with it could never not be good and true and right. So can you "cheat" with God? My gut says no, or else cheating would have to not be the bad thing I think it is.
But I fear that language is just as likely to get in the way here as not; part of the reason I don't talk about spirituality much is that I don't trust God to fit into the categories of my language. :)
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