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It started out that I just was born into Christianity, It later moved onto something more deep. It made since I started a deep personal relationship with God. That makes all the difference religion wont change anything only your willingness to change and live for God will make a difference
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I dunno, I used to be religious, growing up, and it wasn't like I had some sort of awakening to believing God doesn't exist or whatever - I just stopped caring. Religion just didn't interest me anymore.
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Well, knowing of some sort is all you need, Imananimal. The mind can't really wrap itself around everything. Socrates knew without knowing; you can do the same. No need for labels.
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What to do with the urge? The odd instinct?
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What to do with the urge? The odd instinct?
after all the discussion - most of which swings the way I do...
back to the question....
enjoy a bit of what you fancy...
just don't find the Messiah's face in an ice cream tub...
those ones never last...
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No proof? =) I am the way, the truth, and the life. Go ahead and believe in the truth; it is all there is. Unless you think reality is proof of nothing, which is fine. Maya is a valid way to go, I suppose.
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No proof? =) I am the way, the truth, and the life. Go ahead and believe in the truth; it is all there is. Unless you think reality is proof of nothing, which is fine. Maya is a valid way to go, I suppose.
Your science, your knowledge, your physics, your truth. The one life.
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Isn't faith as subjective as truth? (This is when things start getting really messy..)
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So just for giggles, I googled scientists and belief in God, here's what one result said about Einstein:
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So just for giggles, I googled scientists and belief in God, here's what one result said about Einstein:
"Although never coming to belief in a personal God, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in "Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists." This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: "I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." Einstein's famous epithet on the "uncertainty principle" was "God does not play dice" - and to him this was a real statement about a God in whom he believed. A famous saying of his was "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
The god concept is elusive, no doubt. will add, that maybe it in part was a product of his times, Einstein's ideas. Most famous scientists who they listed as having a belief in God have been dead a long long time.
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I find the concept of hell so objectionable, and I can't agree that sending someone there is morally aceptable.
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Indeed. We've left common ruts in the pathway, methinks. I expended (donno if that's quite the right word) that spiritual urge/yearning within the pursuits/actions I have at any given point in time.
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Indeed. We've left common ruts in the pathway, methinks. I expended (donno if that's quite the right word) that spiritual urge/yearning within the pursuits/actions I have at any given point in time.
That's the theory, anywho. Would make for a great religion, huh? Theories tend to be good for that. *shrugs*
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I have rejected religion due to my inability to put my faith in the words spoken by another man. I have recently found great humility in this and am hoping to find a prophet that I would be willing to put my faith that he was sent from god for the betterment of mankind in. I'm currently looking at the Bahai faith as they as a people closely resemble what I believe and want for the world. My only turmoil in this is accepting Baha'ullah as a true prophet from god. I should be getting a call from the local community today or tomorrow very interested in seeing what I decide. At the very least I will get an opportunity to be involved in a devotional which is something I haven't had much of in my life and one of my main reasons for wanting a religion.
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