Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers?

[Greatest I am]

God observes what I do.

Really?

We are talking of a talent such as Jesus displayed.

If you have the type of talent Jesus says a true believer can have, and you do not use it the way he did, you are not a moral man.

Is that what you want your god to observe?

Regards
DL

 

[The_Fisher_King]

If you have the type of talent Jesus says a true believer can have, and you do not use it the way he did, you are not a moral man.

One does not have to use one's talents in the way that Jesus is said to have used them to be a true believer. As I have said before, why should the biblical/Christian standard of what it means to be a true believer mean anything to me? I am not a Christian. I do not believe everything in the bible as Gospel. For me, it is a corrupted book.

And whether or not you think I am a moral man means nothing to me. It is to God that I look for approval, and God has given me Her Approval for what I do.

 

[Greatest I am]

One does not have to use one's talents in the way that Jesus is said to have used them to be a true believer. As I have said before, why should the biblical/Christian standard of what it means to be a true believer mean anything to me? I am not a Christian. I do not believe everything in the bible as Gospel. For me, it is a corrupted book.

And whether or not you think I am a moral man means nothing to me. It is to God that I look for approval, and God has given me Her Approval for what I do.

If your goddess sees that you can save lives and do not do so, then she is as immoral as you are if you do not use that talent.

In Gnostic Christian terms, she would be a vile demiurge.

Regards
DL

 

[The_Fisher_King]

If your goddess sees that you can save lives and do not do so, then she is as immoral as you are if you do not use that talent.

In Gnostic Christian terms, she would be a vile demiurge.

Regards
DL

I don't think we're going anywhere with this conversation.

 

[sojourner]

Not quite. We become as god. God does not become as man.

We are to progress to our highest ideal. You have god dirtying his essence by becoming a man.

If Jesus was god, then he could not die could he?

Please do not bore us in trying to explain the idiotic Christian view of the Trinity that Constantine forced down Christianity's throat.

Regards
DL

Yes! God becomes dirty for us. That's the essence of the parable of the leaven. Through grace, we become the body of Christ (who is God Incarnate, according to Christian teaching). This is all mystic thought.

 

[Greatest I am]

Yes! God becomes dirty for us. That's the essence of the parable of the leaven. Through grace, we become the body of Christ (who is God Incarnate, according to Christian teaching). This is all mystic thought.

More like mythic and imaginary thought.

Regards
DL