Ellen Brown
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Christians need to do what Jesus told them to do, and they could use some Zen too.
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We Know Almost Nothing About God
- Thread starter Ellen Brown
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I don't know. To be honest, it does not look like much of a sacrifice, really.
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- viole
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Drop all thine belief, ye who enters the gateless gate!
Ellen Brown
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Without being whiney, I'll say that parts of my life have gone beyond Hell. (The western, Christian Hell, mainly from fellow Christians). In studying Islam, I learned that hardship and suffering often teach us, so learned to try to suffer quietly. So, many years later, people often tell me that I am very Zen. I don't know a thing about Buddhism. How can that be?
I could take from the ^ above ^ to mean that by God sending Jesus to Earth for us was Not doing anything horrible.
So, in that sense I am glad that you think it does Not look like much of a sacrifice, but what ' much ' did it accomplish.
I suppose we could look at the balancing ' Scales of Justice ':
Sinless Adam on one side chose to sin thus un-balancing the 'Scales of Justice' for us.
Sinless Jesus on the other side chose Not to sin thus re-balancing the 'Scales of Justice ' for us.
We did Not inherit Adam's guilt. We did inherit his leanings / to do wrong since we are born after Adam sinned.
We can't undo that /leaning toward wrongdoing so we need help. To me Jesus is the needed help.
By sinless Jesus dying faithful under adverse conditions proved that a sinless Adam under favorable conditions could have proved faithful to his God. Jesus un-did what Satan and Adam caused.
Milton Platt
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Spending an eternity kissing a god's nether parts has never sounded very appealing.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
That is not what we will be doing, not at all.
We won't even see God in heaven, so how could we do that?
Milton Platt
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That is not what we will be doing, not at all.
We won't even see God in heaven, so how could we do that?
Do you know what a figure of speech is?
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
Of course I do, and of course I know you meant that figuratively, but we won't be doing what you meant figuratively.
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Of course I do, and of course I know you meant that figuratively, but we won't be doing what you meant figuratively.
LOL I have heard the phrase "eternally worshiping god" many times over the years when I asked what one would do in Heaven.
syo
Well-Known Member
And? Has he spoken to you in your dreams?
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
Not saying that the experience of others is invalid because the Creator, being who he is, can communicate as he wishes.
In MY experience, talking to God, usually happens in the early hours and is verbal. Sometimes it is encouragement, or others teaching, or instructions. Sometimes he appears to be cross with me. I am not perfect.
syo
Well-Known Member
I asked because God speaks directly to us only through our dreams. When we are awake, God silences.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Naw. Just some of us don't attribute god to a specific religion or structure. We are fine with just the communication of what some call god. Just some don't say god because it links them to religion. Others have it but don't make it metaphysical.
It doesn't need to be metaphysical (spirit, divinity, etc) for it to be god. Just maybe the definition you all use only should apply to a set amount of people rather than claiming the definition of god and it's relations to people as a whole.