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The Perfumed Seneschal
Introduction to Human EvolutionWell where did we come from?
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Introduction to Human EvolutionWell where did we come from?
Hmm...... Most suspicious. Well, I just answered the question, so we'll have to see where this goes.Last time I answered this question, the post was deleted and I got pointed...
I call it "The Divine Bowel Movement Theory"Hmm...... Most suspicious. Well, I just answered the question, so we'll have to see where this goes.
Have you had it peer-reviewed yet?I call it "The Divine Bowel Movement Theory"
In your belief why God created us
I admire your line of reasoning. The evolution is just a process, but who created the thing that started evolving.Do you think evolution is just coincidence?
Do you think evolution is just coincidence?
yes:Have you had it peer-reviewed yet?
Last time I answered this question, the post was deleted and I got pointed...
I like the perspective image they produce.
That's interesting. I have had better communications with Buddhists than orthodox Christians. I can see why, from what you say. More in common, I guess. I think we came together a week or so about another belief that I quoted the Gospel of Philip, and it sounded a lot like Buddha's teachings as well.This is what Buddhism shares in common with most gnostic worldviews. The view of this world as an entrapping web of illusions, so only capable of imperfection.
There is a shared view that a being like the Buddha, or in your case Christ- came from something beyond this system to liberate beings. Buddhists say the unconstructed and leave it at that.
In the Buddhist understanding though, the deity beings that contributed to this system's suffering might not be malevolent, so much as imperfect in their own abilities to act.
Buddhists don't typically see Brahma as malevolent. Just limited.
that I quoted the Gospel of Philip, and it sounded a lot like Buddha's teachings as well
In your belief why God created us
Assuming that you are asking why God created us, then IF we are created by a God, I think he is testing his ability to create increasingly complex and interesting things without having them self-destruct.In your belief why God created us
It appears the Gospel of Thomas says something of the same about spirit not being of gender.The Gospel of Phillip agrees with Buddhists that rebirth into the world of forms happens due to ignorance, and that the one from beyond the world of forms can appear as any being within it. Such as Phillip saying Christ has appeared as a child, a beautiful woman, an old man, etc.
In Buddhism, there are awakened Buddhas in most realms of existence. There have been animal Buddhas for example. There are deities that in right time awaken as Buddhas, like the goddess Tara. The Buddha can appear in any form and transcends them all.
The Buddha even has spontaneous generation as Dharma bodies like Amida and Vairocana, and the true body of every Buddha is a Dharma body. Shakyamuni has become a Cosmic Dharma body after transcending Samsara. He can employ Indra's Vajra as a divine weapon and has a Mantra.
uhm.....Life has a lot of suffering. It's just part of the cost of being clothed in a body of flesh.
Why some are born under some circumstances and other are born into other circumstances is a major purpose of religious development.
In Mormonism, the whole drive is to have yourself "sealed" to be born of good parents in a good lineage at a time and place where there are peaceful and prosperous circumstances. Temple work is all about organizing people into eternal families, which means lineages are all being fore-ordained. All of this is supposed to play out in "the world to come". The work of "creation" of these very things is going on in Mormon temples today.
In my belief, "created" isn't a verb.In your belief why God created us
A god did not create anything!, man created god in an attempt to control and manipulate the masses, and they did a fairly good job of it for thousands of years!. However nowadays it takes a lot to fool the masses, hence the fall in believers, ALL religions are for the weak of mind and people that can't stand on their own two feet!!. Just my honest opinion!!.In your belief why God created us