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Message: <blockquote data-quote="carolineislands" data-source="post: 69123" data-attributes="member: 5695">Sorry about the font.  I quoted the post before me and it repeated the font.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Thanks for listening.  I am truly a bit confused, but somewhat Socratic as well.  For myself mostly.I was born and raised in Christianity which is suddenly seeming very linear!  And so I am used to thinking of the Trinitarian concept of God as three but all in One.  First of all, I don't know the terminology here and so I'm at a disadvantage, but I am truly trying to understand this concept of Guru and God as one, but also not as one because God is only One.I'm also starting to see that a person could read the Sikh scriptures for their entire life and still be as challenged as I feel right now.  And to tell the truth, that's exciting to me because I have been in a box for a long time.The idea of the one light being passed down through 10 Gurus is also very strange to me.  It's all a new way of thinking.One thing I've noticed about religions that claim to be monotheisms is that none seem to be.  Christianity claims monotheism and yet they worship what they call a triune God with Jesus and the Holy Spirit as parts of God.  Islam claims to be the only true monotheism and yet a person cannot become a Muslim without declaring allegiance to God AND Mohammad and very rarely are prayers sent up to God only.  Thus Mohammad is worshipped as well, even though Muslims will deny this.That is the main reason I am trying to understand the concept of Guru and God being one.  Because I am wondering if Sikhism is similar to the other religions that claim to be monotheistic and yet seem to have other entities equal or part of God.I don't mean to offend anybody with this question.  I hope you can see how this would appear to me?It seems as though, once again, I have found a monotheistic religion that declares one God but has also joined a human being with God as part of God.Again, thank you for hearing me.</blockquote>

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