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I am Spiritual, not religious but that doesn’t make me any better than anyone else and I don’t have a ‘holier than thou’ attitude to my life nor my beliefs. All those who choose to sit in church, praising Jesus Christ, or Allah, or whoever, none of them are any better than me or anyone else.
One of the differences between and (some of) them though, me is that I don’t get down on myself for being a ‘sinner’. I screw up and make mistakes just like anyone else. I try to learn from those mistakes so I wont do it again but if I don’t, then I know they will come back around again and, hopefully, I’ll do better next time. If I “sin” then that is something between me, my conscience and my beliefs. I’m a sinner because I would know if/ when I do something really wrong, not because someone else tells me I am one.
What my Spiritual beliefs give me is an awareness and acceptance of Spirit in all things, the connection of all living things and the sanctity of all life. It gives me an understanding that, (despite what the religious-right believe), there IS only one God and we ARE all going to the same place and that there are many concepts written into religious teachings that have come from man, not from God..
That one God, I spoke of, is not Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Allah, Shiva, Buddha, Yehovah, etc, etc. That one God is ALL of these, and more. That is where a lot of the confusion and divisions come from you see, because each religious faction believes that its way is the only way and that their God is the only God and that all other religions have got it wrong and are risking eternal damnation in a burning fiery pit if they do not conform and obey the teachings of whatever they are told to believe.
As I have mentioned before, I was raised as a Catholic but I no longer practice as Christian. I do believe that Jesus Christ walked the earth some time ago - as an advanced soul - and that the messages and parables he spoke at the time were accidentally misconstrued and misinterpreted and that some of the teachings from that time were deliberately amended and altered by those in power who already knew of the ‘threat’ which those messages posed to them.
That still applies today. It would be unacceptable to ‘those that be’ to have the multitude knowing that they are truly free, that they have free will, that they are powerful enough to create and self determine their own lives and that they do not need any ‘leader’, political or religious’ to tell them how to live their lives.
There is no book telling me what to believe, defining what is right or wrong for me, nor telling me how I should live my life. There is no prophet speaking of eternal damnation nor even of heavenly paradise. There are no ornate chapels or temples, no mass or service conducted by a strange man in a robe who may, or may not, be a hypocrite anyway.
Despite not having any of these things, I do not believe that I am a sinner, a bad person, nor that I am automatically damned for all eternity as a lost soul because I do not conform to the words in a book, (written by men), obey the words of men who tell me their words are ‘of’ God nor regularly attend a service where people sit and listen to another person telling them what the ‘good book’ says they should believe.
I need none of these trappings because, after studying and finding my own path, my own way, I have seen my truth with my eyes and heart. I have heard it with my ears and mind. I have felt it like the unseen wind on your face.
Others speak of their personal relationship with God. I have no reason to doubt them and accept their beliefs yet, when I speak of my personal relationship with Spirit, many of those same people are quick to tell me why and how I am a wrongful sinner, condemned to eternal damnation unless I repent and atone and obey the word of (their) God unquestioningly.
In the beginning was God and God mad man. Man then went on to create religion and since that time there have been wars and rivers of blood shed over arguing who is ’right and who is ’wrong’. Meanwhile, God watches over us all just waiting for us to grow up, waken up and realize that he did make us all and that he made us all to accept, complement, help, love and care for each other here.
If we don’t learn that, he will keep sending us back here until we do, and only then will he let us stay with him!! |
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Posted by scotslad60 on 2008-05-15 14:27:48 | Rating: | Views: 118
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Well Said! I honor your belief with the respect and admiration you deserve. I am a Christian, although not typical by any means, and have been insulted more than a few times myself because of my belief in a Loving God, and NOT the fire and brimstone hell so many talk about, which doesn't exist (by examination of the original words used and the improper translation of those words). I believe God is raising up a new group, a group seeking truth without regard to the traditions of men. Truth and love empower us to help our fellow man, which is what Jesus said to do - feed the hungry, visit the sick and imprisoned, clothe the naked, etc. That is the true measure of a Christian in my humble opinion. So don't give those who condemn you a second thought, they don't deserve it. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
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Posted by eternal
on 2008-05-16 13:45:39
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Nice post hun.
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Posted by Forgetmeknot
on 2008-05-23 13:07:20
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