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Originally posted by the_philth
God sure showed us his love when he decided to try and drown us all back in the day --- or like that one time when he sent us a nice bouquet of love in the form of fire and brimstone rained down from the heavens!
We were created in his image meaning, we must look just like the Gods did back when they created us... that is... half monkey and half God!
As far as being Godlike ourselves... Ha!
I still can't figure out how to walk on water yet!
I still can't figure out how to bend spoons with my mind or instantly turn water into wine.
I've yet to figure out how to blow up a mugger with my mind as he's running away with an old lady's purse.
As soon as some of these things start happening, that's when I start believing that we were created in *their* image!
Until then... we're still puny humans with far too much ego for our own good!
Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law answered Jesus. They said, "Teacher, we want to see you do a miracle as a sign (proof)." Jesus answered, "Evil and sinful people are the ones that want to see a miracle for a sign (proof). But no miracle will be given as a sign to those people..."
The religious argument for this phrase is that the plural "our" is referring to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit...
Originally posted by ButterCookie
Gen 1:26..."Let us make mankind in OUR image, according to OUR likeness...."Obviously a GROUP of beings at work here.
Originally posted by the_philth
The religious argument for this phrase is that the plural "our" is referring to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit...
Originally posted by ButterCookie
Gen 1:26..."Let us make mankind in OUR image, according to OUR likeness...."Obviously a GROUP of beings at work here.
Just thought I'd throw that in there.
Originally posted by Funafuti
reply to post by eleven44
This is how I feel it to be:
Before time, there was a oneness. The oneness "said": "I am one, let me be many" and the oneness created the Universe. A prerequisite for the Universe to exist is duality. Without duality (yin & yang), there couldn't be any relations between anything - the oneness couldn't be many.
The oneness is pure consciousness. We are human. Humans are conscious. We created ourselves to witness ourself. We ARE God.
Actually, I'd LOVE to live a couple hundred years if I could. I'm not afraid of death one bit - but it would surely suck if I died tomorrow because I have so much unfinished business to tend to as far as life itself goes.
Originally posted by eleven44
And how is dying necessarily 'bad?'
You obviously do not like it here very much. Wouldn't you rather return to the infinite source of Love?
Originally posted by the_philth
Actually, I'd LOVE to live a couple hundred years if I could. I'm not afraid of death one bit - but it would surely suck if I died tomorrow because I have so much unfinished business to tend to as far as life itself goes.
Originally posted by eleven44
And how is dying necessarily 'bad?'
You obviously do not like it here very much. Wouldn't you rather return to the infinite source of Love?
I know deep in my soul that we will all end up on the other side... it's just a matter of whether we'll end up on the Positive or Negative side of the energy that's swimming around out there... I know for a fact that I'm gonna be swimming in the Positive flow of things --- "I've seen't it!" I feel it!
Don't get me wrong, I may have very little (I don't ever use this word) *hate* in me (I hate the word hate), but there are things that my soul absolutely despises --- like murderers, bigots or people with ill will in their blood who are too stupid and ignorant to realize that they're screwing up the planet... and extremists who only see things their way and their way only.
So I know I'm gonna see you and everybody else in that infinite realm of Love --- deep in my soul I know it! I have no worries about that!
I'll drink to that!
Originally posted by Funafuti
The drop-in-an-ocean-analogy is a very good way of thinking about our nature.
I also believe that we are here to learn about ourselves. The meaning of life is life itself, and our brain is the crown of evolution on Earth. We are aware that we think. Animals think, but they are not aware of it. I believe that the ultimate meaning of human life is to transcend duality and become united with All That Is again.
What drives us is the will to recreate (because we are the creators of ourself in order to recreate this ever-changing Universe). When I ask many people about the meaning of life, they answer "to procreate so that our genes can live on." Orgasms are nice. We want to have them. This is because we attain a fleeting state of unity with All That Is during sex, climaxing in the orgasm which is our reward for striving to unite with All That Is (and uniting with in even in the briefest of moments).
Although sex is very nice, having sex is not the true goal/will for humanity (even if it certainly feel like it at times). This is just one way of feeling unity with All That Is. If we bring in Chakras and the Kundalini to the discussion, it is interesting to think of that sexual unity - resulting in the forming of a "new" body that's made up by matter - takes place in the lowest two chakras. If one were instead to raise the Kundalini (the life-force) up along the spine to the highest chakra (which is basically the brain), we attain what is colloquially known as Enlightenment: a state when ultimate unity with All That Is is attained. This is the orgasm of orgasms and what everybody's intrinsically striving for. What could possibly be a stronger experience than this? To be able to say I Am That I am and be everything at the same time while being nothing.
Originally posted by midnightstar
never thought of the FACT being Christian is a pagan religion.
In order to be considered part of it you have to accept HUMAN sacrifice .(JESUS)
Or cores even that isn't good enough for your loving god after all he promised to destroy the world once again.
Well guess no human's no sin is his loving logic. OO but no worry's as long as you don't complain when he always you to be tortured starved and shot in his name your good.
Lol Your god may be real (I use to have faith in him .Thank god (pun intended ) I woke up .
No god who says bring your son to the mountain and sacrifice him to me is a god I would have faith in.
So go sacrifice your self he never gets enough of death for sure. Just like every other pagan god . Demanding more and more
Did the resurrection really happen? Was an individual named Jesus really raised from the dead over two thousand years ago? Theologians and atheists both agree that the validity of Christianity rests on this one point alone. Many atheists argue that if Christ wasn’t raised from the dead then there’s no need for Christianity or God because it’s all myth. On the other hand, since Christians believe that Christ was raised from the dead, we too can have eternal life if we believe in him. Both of these arguments are ridiculously short-sighted and they completely divert attention away from the reality and purpose of existence.
Originally posted by eleven44
Some choose not to believe that we are
'Made in the image of God'
because of the amount of war, suffering, greed, etc, present in the World,
and since God is supposedly only Love...
how are we Humans capable of 'bad'?
What those people are missing is that
'being created in the image of God' means
we are Creators ourselves.
We created those wars.
We created that pollution.
We created the homeless.
We created the corporations.
We even created our own personal drama and suffering.
See, we have focused our God given energy in negative directions.
The good news is...
We can also create the solutions.
We can create peace.
We can create community.
We can create any world that we can imagine.
At least...that's what I think.
It's time to go to lunch.
Hope all you guys are having a great day.edit on 24-4-2013 by eleven44 because: (no reason given)
The good news is... We can also create the solutions.
We can create peace.
We can create community.
We can create any world that we can imagine.