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randyvs
reply to post by lupodigubbio
I you were a Muslim you would only have to worry about your life.
Dianec
reply to post by AsherahoftheSea
I'm not sure of how anyone but humans divided Jesus' teachings into a bunch of religions. How is that the fault of Jesus exactly? How is it that people making God seem frightening and punishing is God or Jesus' fault? Your all saying we have free will yet blame these two for not making people do it right - and intend to blame them for how people have misinterpreted and misunderstood)?
I would say lose the way it was taught to you and learn it the way it was intended. To throw the whole idea of spiritual transcendence away just because your teachers have done their jobs badly, and to blame unseen forces for this seems completely off base.
i think muslims are followers of enlil. they use the sin symbol (crescent moon) and follow enlil's decrees against women. s
AsherahoftheSea
reply to post by undo
I am not going by what some guru or anything told me. These are based on personal experiences with the dude. If others can testify by such things, then am I not also free to?
Thousands of years of texts are all fine and dandy, but if you put them to the test and they seem to not be all that reflective of what they told you, then I say hang the texts and keep going by ear -- isn't that kinda what science does? (although these matters are hardly scientific.) If an outdated model doesn't fit with current theory, the old model is often discarded.
Learn for yourself. It's hard, yeah, but book smarts can't teach you as well as cold, hard first-hand experience.
coldkidc
You have free will - If you don't want the gift of eternal life then you don't have to take it.
Your soul is yours to do with as you wish & you will receive as you sow when the day comes - good or bad.
It really is a lot simpler than you are trying to make it sound.
Your tone sounds hateful - what happened that compelled you to reject the teachings of your youth?edit on 3-12-2013 by coldkidc because: (no reason given)
ghostfacekilah00
Not sure if serious, OP. I'm a Catholic. All Christians believe in this thing called free will which God or Satan cannot take away from you. You can choose to leave the Catholic Church at any time just as you can choose to join the Catholic Church at any time. Apparently you are saying that you had not reached the age of reason, after which you can make a conscious personal decision about your faith, when you were confirmed, so it could be argued that your confirmation didn't serve the purpose it was supposed to anyway. Regardless, you do not take an irreversible oath forfeiting ownership of your soul to God during any sacrament. You must not have paid attention or don't remember what is actually said during the sacraments (google: Creed of Faith - which you say at confirmation). Only you have ownership over your soul.
AsherahoftheSea
Dianec
reply to post by AsherahoftheSea
I'm not sure of how anyone but humans divided Jesus' teachings into a bunch of religions. How is that the fault of Jesus exactly? How is it that people making God seem frightening and punishing is God or Jesus' fault? Your all saying we have free will yet blame these two for not making people do it right - and intend to blame them for how people have misinterpreted and misunderstood)?
I would say lose the way it was taught to you and learn it the way it was intended. To throw the whole idea of spiritual transcendence away just because your teachers have done their jobs badly, and to blame unseen forces for this seems completely off base.
Aww, but then, you see, you're making the error of assuming that I think Yahweh and Jesus are the same, which to me they aren't and aren't even on the same team, regardless of what the texts say.
It's all a perversion of Yahweh, not Jesus, IMO -- Yahweh even going so far as to try and convince you they are one and the same, which he does with both images of Jesus I see occurring out there in some way or another.
lupodigubbio
reply to post by undo
ghostfacekilah00
Not sure if serious, OP. I'm a Catholic. All Christians believe in this thing called free will which God or Satan cannot take away from you. You can choose to leave the Catholic Church at any time just as you can choose to join the Catholic Church at any time. Apparently you are saying that you had not reached the age of reason, after which you can make a conscious personal decision about your faith, when you were confirmed, so it could be argued that your confirmation didn't serve the purpose it was supposed to anyway. Regardless, you do not take an irreversible oath forfeiting ownership of your soul to God during any sacrament. You must not have paid attention or don't remember what is actually said during the sacraments (google: Creed of Faith - which you say at confirmation). Only you have ownership over your soul.
That is EXACTLY what is going on here. I want to make sure that I own my soul or spirit and not be manipulated by all kinds of parasitical entities that are fighting over it.
lupodigubbio
Like many of you I was chosen into baptism by my parents without my knowledge when I was a baby.
I was forced to perform the vile ritualistic sacrament of Communion when I was a child.
I was lured into confirmation when I was a teen.
and then the worst happened...
As a young adult, through heavy indoctrination and peer pressure I blindly asked Yahweh to become my Lord and owner of my soul. I did this several times. I even believed the bible and committed the terrible sin of calling it the word of God in its entirety.
After many years of forcing myself to believe the great lie, even though something inside of me always knew better and kept part of my spirit safe from the Demiurgic influences, I decided to abandon religion and eventually explore the more gnostic and hermetic paths towards "truth".
My concern now is...how do I take my "soul" back? How do I renounce all the promises and spiritual bondage I so ignorantly made to Yahweh? I just feel I need to somehow materialize my intentions through spoken or written word just like I did when I gave him my soul and to begin this new journey without any baggage and guilt...but I'm finding much subconscious opposition and spiritual attacks trying to lure me back into a path that I know in my heart is wrong for me on every single level.