Balthazzar
N. Germanic Descent
Coming from a more stringent religious background, after much independent study and dedication, I have developed a mentality different from those I began under, but no less faithful in application, if not more so. I've read the arguments for apostacy and infidelity, and by the standards as they are understood, I have become what some would deem an apostate and others an infidel, yet I am faithful to my learning and my stance in how I am required to honor God. For this reason, by one I would have or could have been crucified, by others I would have or could have been killed also, so ... do men (people) follow and demand adherence to the laws of man (people) or to the laws of God?
To be obedient, although very much needed, the question becomes obedient to what or whom and why.
That's the question and subject for debate.
The first of the bylaws of my religion are:
To be obedient, although very much needed, the question becomes obedient to what or whom and why.
That's the question and subject for debate.
The first of the bylaws of my religion are:
- To establish a more sensible method of religious observance in accordance with the Holy spirits guidance (as we understand truth in its many forms) evidenced objectively and through our personal relationships subjectively (faithfully), to be essential for establishing greater service to our communities and for the purposed intent of continual repentance and change.
- To earnestly seek and promote the truer guidance of the holy spirit in respect to ongoing and faithful acknowledgment of manifest truths, and to do so voluntary, particularly to repent of any former understanding, if and when a held precept is overcome by greater illumination and evidenced as an accepted truth objectively, and to do so freely, according to our several abilities of discernment as individuals.
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