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nonconformist
Although you may find it difficult to believe(depending on what parts of my BLOGS you may have read) you and I have similar beliefs! I consider myself still a Christian and its defender. I do see many holes in our religion, but there are lots of good things about it as well. I think, and hope, our Christian Religion can be "fixed" to make it more "bullet proof," and, in fact, our current Christian practices differ so much from the early days that an Early-Era Christian would hardly recognize the two as being the same!
Please keep reading and come back here to visit as often as you like. You are always welcome!
Live long and profit,
Gerald
posted by
GEPRUITT
on September 13, 2006 at 5:26 PM
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I think faith is a very individual thing. This may seem obvious....
...but personaly I can only go by what I feel intuitively. So although life experience comes into the equation, I do not feel I am deciding what I believe entirely by looking at what others have decided to believe, different religeons etc. I just cannot concieve of the idea that our consciousness does not continue after death or that all we do is for no reason. It's simply a feeling.
posted by
nonconformist
on September 13, 2006 at 3:45 PM
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Yes I certainly will. Thanks
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on September 13, 2006 at 1:28 AM
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Bhaskar
I totally understand, and your position is honorable! So glad to hear from you, and please do revisit this site. I will have plenty to say to my fellow believers!
Gerald
posted by
GEPRUITT
on September 13, 2006 at 1:23 AM
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GERPRUITT
I have had three NDE's, and was astonished to find myself alive. Having had those close brushes, death has stopped frightening me. In fact those very experiences, at least I believe, have turned me from being an inveterate athiest towards, let's say, my becoming an agnostic - i.e., my stand would be: - "I don't know" - I can neither say that God
is, nor can I say, He
is not. At least my stand is more honest than the so-called theists, who say that God
is without knowing it themselves.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on September 13, 2006 at 12:30 AM
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CANTEY
In truth, although the extent of man's knowledge is very small in comparison to all that is to be known, it is a dishonor to all the thinking men and women who have gone before us to say that "the purest form of honesty is to admit that we know absolutely nothing!" This statement, once again, is what I call a "parrot" statement and is, in fact, a lie! It only "sounds" righteous and austere!
Our libraries, text books, encyclopedias, technologies, and our professions are full of man's hard-won knowledge. It is understandable to say that, relatively speaking, we know very little, but as far as "knowing absolutely nothing," I doubt that you will get anyone but another parrot to agree with you. Attribute to God what is God's , but do not deny Caesar what is Caesar's.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on September 12, 2006 at 9:19 PM
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I think
the purest form of honesty is to admit that we know absolutly nothing.
posted by
calmcantey75
on September 12, 2006 at 8:07 PM
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XENO-X
My hat is off to you, Sir! I fully respect your position and agree with your assessments.
No one can do better than to be honest with himself!
Gerald
posted by
GEPRUITT
on September 12, 2006 at 8:01 AM
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and maybe pretty honest
i consider myself not an agnostic, having had experiences that indicate to me activity that we usually cannot see -- but are affected by.
and yet I consider myself a believer in the present. the present moment, the present instant, since that is really all that there is.
and as I move through this sequence of present instants, then what I experience at each instant helps define my outlook.
yes, we need to discard the old god. that should have been discarded long ago. I believe Yeshua attempted to move believers away from that god; yet, those who would and could not prevailed and preserved the concept of a god molded in the image of the individual, who, like Aladdin's genie, would be at their beck and call and their protector, healer, etc., even though their own experience contradicted that image of a god (but they would not let go of the image; rather, they molded their contradictory experiences to fit that image.
the bottom line: we know what we experience, and what we conclude from what we experience should be an honest assessment of our experiences and not an rearrangement to fit our images.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 12, 2006 at 7:44 AM
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