FFC: that question is the same as 'are all people at heart, good' and 'do all people want to be good'. The answer is of course, a yes.
Although, spirituality is about trying to figure out how to achieve this more quickly with fewer steps.
I had written more, but do not have the time to write it now.
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- Sun May 28, 2006 3:29 am
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
- Sun May 28, 2006 3:26 am
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
Canuckster... You write that I interpret the Bible how I want to. And that your interpretation therefore is correct, whilst mine is incorrect... Apart from the fact that you don't even give an interpretation upon which to make a comparison -how do you even know that it is mine that is wrong whilst y...
- Fri May 26, 2006 12:40 am
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
Jac3510... Even if the translation of 'the kingdom of heaven is within you' is taken as 'you' being plural, this still equates to a translation that is 'you' as singular. 'You' as plural means a combination of one's point of view in and of itself with also the different point of view of another/othe...
- Thu May 25, 2006 1:11 am
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
OK, here are some... the passages about 'The Apocalypse' and 'the Coming of the Son of Man', in which Jesus says to not believe those who say, the Son is here of there, and that The Son of Man will come like a flash of lightning -that The Kingdom of Heaven is not something you can see, because it ex...
- Wed May 24, 2006 6:26 pm
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
Hi FFC, I disagree. And in fact believe that the major part of Jesus' teaching is that we mere humans will come to realisations about who we are and what is therefore right and good. There are many passages in the Gospel where Jesus indicates this. Besides which, a major reason why Jesus and the pro...
- Tue May 23, 2006 10:54 pm
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
Canuckster: In answer to your second question that was: If your concept of God is no greater than what you your self can create, then what is the point of your system? ...it is that, because my concept of God is something that I create and have the power and potential to recreate, I can therefore re...
- Tue May 23, 2006 9:34 pm
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
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FFC: If you follow what Jesus has said, he once said to a man who asked to divide property between him and his brother: "Who gave me the authority to decide what is fair for you? Decide this for you self." -was something of what Jesus said to this man. -This is the word of God. Furthermore...
- Sun May 21, 2006 9:44 pm
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
Canuckster, (hope that's spelt right). The theory that I work with to try to make sense of things is based on the idea that the opposite to 'wrong' is 'right' and that this is relative; and then that 'wrong' and 'right' are flexible definitions. ...along the lines of, whoever wishes to be right must...
- Sat May 20, 2006 11:37 pm
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
lissy, you wrote that 'it is illogical to say that all beliefs are correct because those beliefs contradict each other' ...yet, I say that if one wants to be logical one has to acknowledge how it is possible and certain infact that all beliefs are equal with respect to each other. If one wants to be...
- Sat May 20, 2006 11:19 pm
- Forum: Aberrant Christianity
- Topic: What Is The True Religion?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21170
- Sat May 20, 2006 11:12 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Supernatural defies science.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6846
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Hi Tyler, I basically believe that Evolution and Creation are 2 different viewpoints of the same thing and that they are both correct theories. Regarding supernatural phenomena, my belief is a simple one: that these can all be explained by science, or rather, that one day we will explain them. And s...
- Sat May 20, 2006 10:47 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: God and causality.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3695
c) God doesn't exist
Hi, (having a bit of trouble with my computer, so hopefully this message is sent properly) My belief regarding Causality and the existence of God is that the central concept is based on paradox. That because God is Cause (the Creator) God is in fact both Cause and Effect. Of, just as in Christian do...
- Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:17 pm
- Forum: Moral and Ethical Affairs
- Topic: Moral Relativism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17371
- Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:12 pm
- Forum: Moral and Ethical Affairs
- Topic: Moral Relativism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17371
if a boxer never learns how to take a punch, how is he a good boxer?-how could he last long? If Mohammed Ali had not built-up his resilience, in the Rumble in the Jungle George Foreman would have destroyed him in the first few rounds. Instead, Ali built his resilience, letting-go of a strict definit...
- Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:27 pm
- Forum: Moral and Ethical Affairs
- Topic: Moral Relativism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17371
O.K. Kurieuo, I think that I get the gist of what you said. The 'second' kind of Moral Relativism (if I have understood you well) describes when people have the attitude: 'anything goes' and because flexibility is required (situations being complicated as they often can be) people give-up of maintai...