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Originally posted by FoxfilesMulder
But, IAMIAM may have a totally different take on all of this.
And since this is his thread I don't want to disrespect him in that way, so I hope he cam come here and offer his input on some or all of these things.
Originally posted by 2012king
so if heaven exists does hell? and if so why would an all powerful being that wants love and peace everywhere allow a place such as that to exist? unless there is nothing he can do about it, again making him not all powerful. would it not be better for him to actually physically show people of his existence and allow people the option to be forgiven? instead of supposed misterious cryptic messages that only a certain few can see? my eyes and mind are open and have been forever but i still dont see anything. thats why i dont believe, i have nothing along those lines to believe in. its like my son beeing scared of monsters under his bed. i can prove to him they are not there but he still believes they exist. until he has lived a life full enough to see for himself the physical evidence, he too will continue to believe in them. If he sees one, then and only then will he know that they are there for sure, so how can people possibly base a belief on something they have never seen? anything could be percieved as a sign from god, but it in itself is not definitive proof that he exists. until i see proof of his existence i wont believe, and due to the way the stories are told, it can never be proven that he does.
Originally posted by 2012king
If God was behind all of our thoughts and consiousness, surely he has created the murderers and rapists you described. If this is the case and we are not in control of our own thoughts, why would he make people do these things?
Originally posted by Greensage
I look forward to the Literal translation of Revelation; not out of harm, because harm is what is at hand, but out of Love! It may be our only Hope so I look forward to the Return of Christ.
Originally posted by Greensage
reply to post by IAMIAM
OMG, I think that would derail your wonderful Thread! Let me just say that the Kingdom in Heaven will "descend" upon the Planet! In other words, it will land!
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by mysticnoon
He said his soul IS Lord, not that the Lord is a part of him. Perhaps I am misunderstanding his expressions.
Let's try it a couple different ways my friend.
In a full glass of water, is a drop of water within the glass any less than the whole?
Would the whole be less without it?
Is the drop greater than whole?
Here is another way...
God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omnibenevolent, and Omniscient.
Therefore, GOD must be within all things, at all times.
You cannot be separate from God, nor is God separate from you.
Your consciousness is part of the consciousness of God, just as the drop is part of the whole of the water in the glass.
When I say I am King, I am acknowledging the divinity within me AND YOU.
With Love,
Your Brother
I am residing within the Whore of Babylon. One day, it is my belief, that I will become like the mud; insignificant, of no concern, and discounted as being a threat.
Originally posted by 2012king
After a bit of thinking, i have come up with an idea. right or wrong i dont know but is the idea of god just an overall description of everything that exists? if so i believe i exist, and whatever and however we were created in the beginning, we are all from the same thing. some choose to call it god and some choose to call it the big bang theory. at the end of the day, we all exist, and that existence started somewhere. did it all happen the way it says in the bible? i dont think so. is god an actual being that is watching over us and has the power to do anything he wants? again i dont think so. what i do think is that as we are from the same energy that created everything we know and everything we have not yet discovered, we are all equal in that way. i still dont choose to follow any type of religion, however that doesnt mean i dont believe we were created. maybe the bible is just mans way of trying to explain existence, without the current knowledge we have. thats why there are mistakes, and its also why a lot of people cant or dont want to listen to the messages it is trying to say. some would call it common sense, to want to co-exist with each other in a peaceful way, and deep down thats what most of us want.
Originally posted by 2012king
So now onto the idea of heaven. is it a place that we all go to when we die, and carry on with an existence similair to what we have now, actually knowing what is going on around us?
Originally posted by 2012king
i dont think so, but what i do think is that when we die, we still exist in the form of our energy, as it all has to go somewhere. wether thats back into the ground, or floating around the universe, we are still here in a way. as for everlasting peace, you cant get more peaceful than being asleep, and when you die thats about as long a sleep as you could get!!
Originally posted by 2012king
As i say, i may be right and i may be wrong. I am not religious in any way, but i do want to have a good and happy life, and if how i am currently living is working, why change it?
Originally posted by jimmyyrk
Dear Brother,
I wonder what your concerns are on perhaps the "End of times".