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He's not a weirdo , he was in a plane crash and got burned really bad , because he's disfigured doesn't make him weird. There's no place for cruelty on this post
Originally posted by lewman
cant you give us a bit more info as i cant see myself watching that wierdo talk for over an hour.
Originally posted by SuperiorEd
My testimony is my Blog. It's summed up below.
I spent 30 years in the Baptist Church before I started to really doubt organized religion. This is the place most believers get when they are at a tipping point between the material world and faith in what every person ultimately hopes for. Everyone wants peace and understanding. They want to know that the future will be okay, despite the fact that everything seems unsure. This is precisely how love works. True love is a struggle at times and a joy at unexpected times. Love is not all joy, but rests in the love of the other for peace. The struggle leads to appreciation and adoration if love is the basis of the relationship. If the basis of the relationship is selfishness (What's in it for me), then there is no loving relationship at all.
I have since come back to my faith in a big way. I learned what duplicity means and recognized it in myself. Duplicity is saying one thing but really meaning another. This is selfishness and pride. It's a type of lie to avoid fear when love is not present. Most believers and atheists live in this world of attachment to fear. On the one hand, you want to please God for the reward. On the other, you want to avoid punishment. Neither of these are reasons to believe or not believe. This is duplicity. Good is its own reward and this is the thing to learn from life. When your only aim is loving-kindness to others, you have found love. The flower begins to bloom from this point and you see God for what He represents.
Once you realize that nothing here in this world will satisfy your selfish duplicity, you come to realize the point of it all. Reward will never answer what you truly desire form life.
The fear of punishment only pushes you to more fear.
God has never demonstrated this by his word. His demonstration is simple. Faith, Hope and Love. The results of duplicity represent everything else. God is not responsible for this duplicity, we are. It's the same in a husband and wife relationship. All problems arise from selfishness.
When you release your attachment to the flesh and material desires, you give up your connection to the fear that it might be lost. This has nothing to do with selling all your possessions or walking away from your family and living in the woods as a religious hermit or monk. Although some people head this direction, what Christ meant by renouncing the material world is this: Rest in God only as you walk the path of life. Love your God (Shepherd of men) with your whole heart. Give up your love for the world and give up the fear that it can ever be lost. Nothing is lost with God when love is the aim.
Once you are in this place of detachment, something profound happens that transforms your desires. You suddenly realize the gifts in this life that God has granted. You realize that there is nothing you have that God did not give. You realize that your steps have been ordered by Him from the beginning. You realize that this day, reading this article, was meant for a reason. God is always at work fulfilling His part of the loving relationship. Even if that means protecting us from evil or allowing us to fall into our own mistakes. Reaping and sowing are laws and not punishment. Blessings are not earned, they are bestowed in loving-kindness. We are the only ones who can be selfish. God needs nothing but only desires our love in return.
We are all affected by three things in life: Choice, Chance and the actions of others. Chance is not probability at all, it's the providence of God working in all of our lives. Nothing that occurs in your life is wasted. Events will always point you to realizing that the steps you take are beside God. Sinner or saint, God is there guiding you. You can only see this when you give it all up first to God. This is trust. Love needs to be reciprocated.
Faith, Hope and Love is all that is worth anything in this life. Nothing else matters.
This is true belief. Some get it, some don't.
Originally posted by badw0lf
Hehe the image says it all...