I was raised very loosely Christian by a very loosely Christian mother and an agnostic father. Though herself raised Orthodox, my mother attended the local Protestant church I think mainly for the social side of things. I was raised to think critically. Took a keen interest in Christianity early...
I disagree. I believe that we need to free ourselves from attachment to the material world in order to be able to move on from it (to return to God). Learning to free ourselves from attachment to the material world takes time and is not something that can be achieved at the moment of death...
I believe that God the King of Light and the separate Dark King have both always existed. Insofar as they have both created and populated their distinct separate worlds with countless other beings, and one of God the King of Light's creations, the Demiurge, created the material world with the...
I believe that life in this material world is the real Hell. Here, we are apart from God. I don't find that to be merciful at all, but it is not God's fault that we are here, since God is not the creator of the material world in my belief system. We have been trapped here by the evil Demiurgic...
Of absolutely fundamental importance for me. God is the Creator of my soul/spirit and I believe it is to Him I will eventually return (to find the eternal peace that I seek).
Remembering God in the here and now brings me peace. Without God in my life I feel adrift and without purpose.
My prayers are generally of the 'selfish' kind - they involve me praising God and seeking guidance for myself - rather than praying for someone else. I find it very beneficial for myself - a regular reminder of the need to remember God in my every waking moment.
As regards others praying, that...
God is for me the Purest Spirit and the King of Light. He is the Creator of Angelic and human spirits as expressions of His Creative Will, but not the creator of the material world.
Your mind then, not God's.
Atheism was around before the 20th century.
So you only accept classical music written prior to the 20th century? What about classical music written more recently?
Extending a high quality life for all through more effective treatments for the diseases and conditions currently associated with the ageing process is I think the way to go, overcoming death completely if it were even possible not so much. Death is as natural as life and we should I think learn...
My worldview is indeed my own but is derived from various sources, one of which is Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion that dates back to the time of John the Baptist, and Ruha, a female evil spirit in Mandaeism, is sometimes referred to as the Holy Spirit in Mandaeism.