Posted on 01/16/2006 8:32:58 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Haven't read the whole thread - just checking in here. Actually there is only "one" religion - love for God. He has millions of names. If someone's religion or spiritual path helps him/her love God more, then good. If not, either the path isn't that good, or s/he isn't following well.
One symptom of someone whose love for God is growing is that person will love others as much as he loves himself. IOW, he will care about others' wellbeing as much or more than his own. Without that love for others, the love for God is still very immature.
And sometimes love manifests as "tough love" - as any parent knows.
;-)
"And besides, that is decided by HIM who is beyond all concepts."
****thanks for your comments....I don't feel comfortable when "hard hitting Christians" of "authority"? start condeming people to h*ll. I have a problem with that. It's just from a Christian's point of view we just share our belief and then move on......
The love of Jesus, and accepting his death is the key....that is what the Christians believe and what the Bible says. The Koran says something else....The Jehovahs' witnesses say that you will inherit a planet when you die.....yes, they actually do believe that....Mormans something else....
So, It would only stand to reason that if I chose a religion, it would be Jehovah's witnesses and I could handle a planet.....why not. But, does that make it so. Why can't I form my own religion.....and give it conditions, rewards and it should come true, right?
I found all these issues and realized that something was wrong here.....So, I searched for the truth.....
I'll leave it here..................One God, one set of rules, one standard......otherwise, I can just form my own if I believe hard enough, love everyone...and so forth....really! why not....
Think about it....
Just a quick addition here..
Even "Awake" pamphlets I've found truth in, even the Koran. Although I'm pretty disgusted with the Muslims in general and jihadis in particular...
I'm not trying to say that every religious sect is all true, all the time - they'd cancel each other out.
But the basics of "God exists" and "He is the Supreme Controller, Owner, and Friend of all living beings" and "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you", followed by "everyone reaps what they sow" - are universal, and any religious system that rejects these ain't no religion.
I'd add two more, the most important:
1. Love God with all one's heart and mind.
2. Love others at least as much as we love ourselves.
The greatest saints think themselves more lowly than the straw in the street.
I've read that a saintly person thinks like this:
"I'm just a poor soul who has taken complete shelter in God."
It depends upon whether the parents have been teaching that evolution is false. That seems to be the only explanation that would cause such confusion.
If so, then the confusion arises because the parents are the one's leading the kids astray, not the schools.
A parent can teach their kids whatever they want, but if the parents tell the kids something that they later learn to be untrue, then the kids start to question other things their parents told them. And rightfully so.
Brahe hired Kepler as an assistant to calculate planetary orbits from Brahe's observations of planetary positions. Brahe set up his observatory sometime after 1574, and abandoned it in 1597. Brahe died in 1601. So it's more like 20 years of observations.
Brahe believed that all planets except Earth orbited the Sun, and the Sun and the Moon orbited Earth.
Well, as a Christian, and I have a son, I tell him as I believe and have read, that evolution is not true. I would keep my opinion pretty much neutral here, as I said in another post, as the post was written to be neutral. My personal belief based on current evidence that I've found, is that evolution is not possible. However, a pro-evolutionist would see it another way due to not believing in God, and yet another who does believe in God would say that God used evolution as another twist.....
Now, that's just me.....
absolutely.......I'll drink...er I mean, I'll go along with that one.....:)
good point........
It's at this point that our opinions diverge.
I appreciate the civil tone our discussion has enjoyed. I will say that respectfully, I disagree and I'd like to leave it at that.
FRegards,
Dan
If you spend a lot of time with it, you can find sources of hard copy translations of some of these guys' interchanges. Although I'm frequently frustrated with how much information is still not available in English.
Of course......I don't see why people have to do all this shouting...that was why I had the humor of the post prior to this.....about "we're supposed to be shouting"....:)
however, I've had some colorful attacks and I do get crude with those.....but, discussion, reference, expression of thought and opinion, exchange and agreeing, or agreeing to disagree......who cares, life if too short.....
:)) I've had a date to end in 20 minutes because the "date" was up front quickly and ask me...get this....was I for the death penalty. "Say what"? Okay, I said yes, with some reservations......opps...end of date that quick.....:))))
Oh, that son I told you about......I encourage him by the way, he should always, see for himself. I didn't include that in my "declaration" paragraph. I also encourage him to make his own decisions that he can live with.....this is mine based on blah blah blah.......
So, thanks and I also appreciate the exchange.....However, even now, I still look for contradictions and I have to resolve them; in my own beliefs......that is a personal thing......ever hear of Doubting Thomas.....that Be me.
I understood the humorous reference.
So, thanks and I also appreciate the exchange.....However, even now, I still look for contradictions and I have to resolve them; in my own beliefs......that is a personal thing......ever hear of Doubting Thomas.....that Be me.
Me, too. Only I'm Doubting Dan. :)
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