Emotions play a significant role in Christian belief and worship

[Mr. Ed]

From experience, the act of becoming a Christian was motivated by my emotions without proof that Jesus or the bible were accurate in what they claimed to be. It is easy to believe when you are emotionally moved or persuaded to accept an idea on the bases of feelings rather than solid proof. Perhaps with a clear mind unattached from our emotions the original outcome would be different?

Humans seemingly play the role of a child governed by a parental figure (god/Jesus) throughout life to be punished or rewarded for his/her actions. I can't think or act independently from my place or designated space in the world. I am assigned from birth to be who I am and where I am via location, friends, family, my likes and.dislikes define who and where I am. Although people and things influenced me, were they available to me according to the Law of attraction indicate?

You've heard said everything happens for reason or god will not give you a burden you cannot manage? These phrases are designed to provide hope is desperate situations. Of course everything happens for a reason, things happen based on a chain of events and sequences that produce a given outcome. If humans were aware of the big picture, we could predict the outcome of events.

god does't give more than you can handle. Of course, if you are faced with a large task, whether god gave it to you or not, that task is yours to cope with. Regardless how reassuring it is for god to have your back, you are a part of a bigger picture that cannot be understood or described only that everything is part of the same thing.

 

[Stevicus]

From experience, the act of becoming a Christian was motivated by my emotions without proof that Jesus or the bible were accurate in what they claimed to be. It is easy to believe when you are emotionally moved or persuaded to accept an idea on the bases of feelings rather than solid proof. Perhaps with a clear mind unattached from our emotions the original outcome would be different?

For me, I wasn't really given any actual choice. It wasn't really until I reached early adulthood that I began to realize that not believing in God was even an option. Although it wasn't really an emotional choice either way.

Humans seemingly play the role of a child governed by a parental figure (god/Jesus) throughout life to be punished or rewarded for his/her actions. I can't think or act independently from my place or designated space in the world. I am assigned from birth to be who I am and where I am via location, friends, family, my likes and.dislikes define who and where I am. Although people and things influenced me, were they available to me according to the Law of attraction indicate?

You've heard said everything happens for reason or god will not give you a burden you cannot manage? These phrases are designed to provide hope is desperate situations. Of course everything happens for a reason, things happen based on a chain of events and sequences that produce a given outcome. If humans were aware of the big picture, we could predict the outcome of events.

god does't give more than you can handle. Of course, if you are faced with a large task, whether god gave it to you or not, that task is yours to cope with. Regardless how reassuring it is for god to have your back, you are a part of a bigger picture that cannot be understood or described only that everything is part of the same thing.

At one time, I looked to religion to try to seek knowledge about what this universe was and why we were placed here. What's it all about? I eventually realized that no religion and no religious person really has any answers. It's all just guessing and speculation. No one really knows.

 

[Mr. Ed]

I am just realizing I have a choice and I can see what choices I have. These choices I have today were forbidden by fear of what I was taught in my youth. It is good to know I am not alone and the answer may not exist until another day.

 

[wellwisher]

From experience, the act of becoming a Christian was motivated by my emotions without proof that Jesus or the bible were accurate in what they claimed to be. It is easy to believe when you are emotionally moved or persuaded to accept an idea on the bases of feelings rather than solid proof. Perhaps with a clear mind unattached from our emotions the original outcome would be different?

Humans seemingly play the role of a child governed by a parental figure (god/Jesus) throughout life to be punished or rewarded for his/her actions. I can't think or act independently from my place or designated space in the world. I am assigned from birth to be who I am and where I am via location, friends, family, my likes and.dislikes define who and where I am. Although people and things influenced me, were they available to me according to the Law of attraction indicate?

You've heard said everything happens for reason or god will not give you a burden you cannot manage? These phrases are designed to provide hope is desperate situations. Of course everything happens for a reason, things happen based on a chain of events and sequences that produce a given outcome. If humans were aware of the big picture, we could predict the outcome of events.

god does't give more than you can handle. Of course, if you are faced with a large task, whether god gave it to you or not, that task is yours to cope with. Regardless how reassuring it is for god to have your back, you are a part of a bigger picture that cannot be understood or described only that everything is part of the same thing.

The two hemispheres of the brain, left and right, process data in different ways. Emotions are connected to the right brain and to integral thinking; 3-D. While the left brain is more analytical and differential; 2-D. Like in calculus, differntiation tells us the slope of a curve at a given point. While integration is the area under the same curve from A to B.

Faith and emotions are connected to the extra z-axis, that makes right brain thinking more spatial. Christianity was about love since love is the most 3-D of all the emotions. Old Testament is more about law and fear. Law is 2-D while love integrates in 3-D. Thinking in 3-D is more difficult to perfect, which is why some who do it often seem detached or naive to 2-D truth. Love integrated humans from alpha to omega; area under the curve call humanity.

Emotions are also very important because when memory is created emotional tags are added to sensory content when memories are written to the cerebral matter. Our memory has both sensory content and an emotional tag. Our strongest memories have the strongest emotional tags and ambience; graduation, marriage, first child, etc.The Christian strategy of emotional training helped to reinforce the memory writing processes. The simple lessons of childhood can last a lifetime, even for Atheists who try to repress these early lesson. This is part of how Christians became so successful; use the brain more efficiently.

The love tag is connected to 3-D integration, that can brings things from all different directions into a unity. This helped to create other 3-D memories, so the 3-D grid could be made more populated and practical. Such emotional training would lead to the fine art, construction and Saints, that Christians are known for. In 3-D training, the z-axis needs to be felt from the inside, since you will not find the z-axis on the outside in a 2-D world with tech tools who look for slopes on curves. The 2-D world of science does not know the z-axis, except as the integrating factors approximated by statistics; odds.

So many of the Supreme Court Justice are Catholic or Christian since their early 3-D training of love, allows them to bring together law into 3-D, so it has global utility; wisdom. People, even those limited to 2-D, respect wisdom built on the scaffolding of character; love.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Interesting

 

[Quintessence]

It's important to keep in mind that emotions are fundamental to the human experience and the core of what drives human behavior. The only driver that is more foundational to the species than emotion are base life needs - feeling thirsty, hungry, cold, hot, in pain, etc. - and emotions are routinely interconnected with those base needs. We eat the foods we eat because we like them (emotions), we seek out certain experiences because they please us (emotions), we develop or shatter certain relationships because we like them or hate them (emotions), we cling to notions of evidence and proof because it pleases us to do so (emotions), and we navigate relationships with the gods based on feelings of high regard or worship and adoration (emotions). There's no ability for humans to have a mindset free of emotions, it's that foundational to the human animal.

Still, not all emotional states are of the same tone and can facilitate the traversal of different roads. Some religious activities rely heavily on more bombastic or passionate emotive states. Others rely heavily on emotions of peaceful tranquility and calm contemplation. Mine kinda runs the spectrum. The bardic arts place focus on the evocation of feeling and meaning through story and song; high emotion. The ovate arts place a focus on finding places between places and times between times; calm emotion. Though these can and do flip flip; some tales told calm and soothe and some no-places evoke deep fears when journeyed to. But I digress...

 

[Revoltingest]

From experience, the act of becoming a Christian was motivated by my emotions without proof that Jesus or the bible were accurate in what they claimed to be. It is easy to believe when you are emotionally moved or persuaded to accept an idea on the bases of feelings rather than solid proof. Perhaps with a clear mind unattached from our emotions the original outcome would be different?

Humans seemingly play the role of a child governed by a parental figure (god/Jesus) throughout life to be punished or rewarded for his/her actions. I can't think or act independently from my place or designated space in the world. I am assigned from birth to be who I am and where I am via location, friends, family, my likes and.dislikes define who and where I am. Although people and things influenced me, were they available to me according to the Law of attraction indicate?

You've heard said everything happens for reason or god will not give you a burden you cannot manage? These phrases are designed to provide hope is desperate situations. Of course everything happens for a reason, things happen based on a chain of events and sequences that produce a given outcome. If humans were aware of the big picture, we could predict the outcome of events.

god does't give more than you can handle. Of course, if you are faced with a large task, whether god gave it to you or not, that task is yours to cope with. Regardless how reassuring it is for god to have your back, you are a part of a bigger picture that cannot be understood or described only that everything is part of the same thing.

That about sums it up.

 

[F1fan]

I am just realizing I have a choice and I can see what choices I have. These choices I have today were forbidden by fear of what I was taught in my youth. It is good to know I am not alone and the answer may not exist until another day.

There are many studies in the social sciences that explain what the human brain does in regards to religious belief, How beliefs are formed subconsciously by social experiences, and how the evolution of the human brain makes religious belief very easy and tempting. Cultural beliefs become a sort of operating software for our thinking, and once introduced it becomes very difficult to eliminate from the habit of thinking. Beliefs form before our brains are capable of reasoning, and reasoning is skilled thinking, something that requires being taught. It isn't. Not many have learned how to use their brains to make sound conclusions, and as a result the emotionally satisfying belief will motivate some to avoid learning these skills.