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I feel you have no right to chastise Christians who are trying to tell you the truth especially when you have no clue what you are even talking about when it comes to Christianity.
Jesus Christ is and was God in the flesh and God the Fathers son. The wine and bread represent his willing blood and body sacrifice for us so we can have eternal life and forgiveness from all sins for all time, we do that in remembrance of him and what he did.
We are not murdering animals and people, and we are not drinking real blood and doing perverse things to please fallen angels and demonic spirits like Pagans do. With White and Black magic you are playing with powerful fallen entities, which can and will take you into destruction with them in the end.
CirqueDeTruth
reply to post by AfterInfinity
I couldn't pretend to imagine what we human's are deserving of. I only know, the most heinous devils in creation - we ourselves, humans assume those roles.
There is no need to look any farther than ourselves - to point the fingers of blame toward evil, hate, and negativity. We ourselves hold the responsibility and blame. Not demons, or devils, or aliens. It is us. In a general sense. I don't mean any one person or group specifically. I equally blame us all, humanity as a whole, for our states of affair in the world. I don't blame God, I don't blame the devil, or fairies, or aliens. I blame us.
It's sort of like the cavemen drawing a war scene on the wall, and another coming up and saying, "No, no. You have to invent religion FIRST, so we have a justification for war. Then we'll go over to the neighboring cave and raid their goods."
CdT
AfterInfinity
reply to post by CirqueDeTruth
A couple of weeks ago, I was waxing quite gloriously on the manner in which we reflect the universe and its most impressive properties. About three days after posting such things, I opened a book to be confronted with a translation of an inscription at the Temple of Delphi, which is famous for its historical feminine prophets and their influences on major artistic, political, science, and philosophical movements leading up to and following the Roman Empire.
"Know thyself, and you will know the gods and the universe."
I firmly believe this to be nothing less than the truth. And I also believe that our difficulties with nailing down divinity and its role in our world has everything to do with the fact that we refuse to be honest about exactly who and what we are.
AfterInfinity
I sincerely hope that your god spends a few millenia in the hell he made for us. Maybe he'll learn some of that humility he keeps preaching about.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by therealguyfawkes
Here's an NDE thread for you in return:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
I think you may find it...enlightening. But that's only if you take a moment to actually process what you find. Some are less than inclined to do so, given the reasons for their beliefs.
Read that thread/experience when it came out, and found it fascinating. I agree wholeheartedly with the gentleman's revelations.
What part about it should I be processing?
AfterInfinity
reply to post by therealguyfawkes
Here's an NDE thread for you in return:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
I think you may find it...enlightening. But that's only if you take a moment to actually process what you find. Some are less than inclined to do so, given the reasons for their beliefs.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by therealguyfawkes
Read that thread/experience when it came out, and found it fascinating. I agree wholeheartedly with the gentleman's revelations.
What part about it should I be processing?
The individually calibrated touch to it. Nondualistic. Not just heaven and hell...every single afterlife that has ever been conceived of, rolled into one tangled ball of paradise. I barely understand it myself, but that's how it's been explained to me.
Namely that LaVey's version of Satanism and LHP, is one of selfishness rather than Evil proper. And I'm sure many of us do associate selfishness with evil, to one degree or another. But as purely catering to one's own ego and desires, it is not wholly evil. I mean, is it wrong to want happiness and good things for one's self? Is it wrong to want "a self" at all, as opposed to being absorbed into the godhead. Being "RHP," myself, I've always had a bit of a problem with that concept. Because to me, and my little earthly ego, that is a terrifying thought. It's nearly synonymous with death. The death of what I know, and think of as "me." At least. An that is a hard thing for a person to wrap their mind around. And that is one of the common goals of many "RHP" systems. That, or something very much like it.
en.wikipedia.org...
In chapter 18, verses 65–82, Moses meets the Servant of God, referred in the Quran as "one from among Our friend whom We had granted mercy from Us and whom We had taught knowledge from Ourselves",[55] at the junction of the two seas and asks for permission to accompany him so Moses can learn "right knowledge of what [he has] been taught".[56] The Servant of God informs him in a stern manner that their knowledge is of different nature and that "Surely you [Moses] cannot have patience with me. And how canst thou have patience about things about which thy understanding is not complete?"[57] Moses promises to be patient and obey him unquestioningly, and they set out together. After they board a ship, the Servant of God damages the vessel. Forgetting his oath, Moses says, "Have you made a hole in it to drown its inmates? Certainly you have done a grievous thing." The Servant of God reminds Moses of his warning, "Did I not say that you will not be able to have patience with me?" and Moses pleads not to be rebuked. Next, the Servant of God kills a young man. Moses again cries out in astonishment and dismay, and again the Servant of God reminds Moses of his warning, and Moses promises that he will not violate his oath again, and that if he does he will excuse himself from the Servant's presence. They then proceed to a town where they are denied hospitality. This time, instead of harming anyone or anything, the Servant of God restores a decrepit wall in the village. Yet again Moses is amazed and violates his oath for the third and last time, asking why the Servant of God did not at least exact "some recompense for it!" The Servant of God replies, "This shall be separation between me and you; now I will inform you of the significance of that with which you could not have patience." Many acts which seem to be evil, malicious or somber, actually are merciful. The boat was damaged to prevent its owners from falling into the hands of "a king who seized every boat by force… And as for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should make disobedience and ingratitude to come upon them." God will replace the child with one better in purity, affection and obedience. As for the restored wall, the Servant of God explained that underneath the wall was a treasure belonging to two helpless orphans whose father was a righteous man. As God's envoy, the Servant of God restored the wall, showing God's kindness by rewarding the piety of the orphans' father, and so that when the wall becomes weak again and collapses, the orphans will be older and stronger and will take the treasure that belongs to them.