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Post by freebird on Aug 22, 2005 14:37:15 GMT -5
God Without Religion:
If the churches added that these are suggestions or others experience instead of the black and white this is the only way, I think they would get a better responce.
To me i have a God without religion because I dont have to answer to anyone and spirit is always available and always present to connect with. A personal relationship is waht it is.
Freebird
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Post by Tara on Aug 22, 2005 19:33:09 GMT -5
I think it is a true personal relationship without too many middlemen.
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Post by freebird on Aug 22, 2005 20:03:12 GMT -5
Tara:
That be it all right. Sometimes i wonder if the leaders of other religions dont want their followers to become powerful.
Spiritually powerful that is. Is the greatest master the one with the most students or the one who creates the most masters.
Feebird
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Post by dianaholberg on Aug 22, 2005 20:03:42 GMT -5
lol... how many is too many?
Nature puts our parents in the middle. Growth demands that there be others... teachers... guides. All religion does is put some organization to all of that.
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Post by freebird on Aug 22, 2005 21:57:41 GMT -5
Diana:
There is nothing wrong with teachers and guides. But a teacher or a guide has no buisness involving themselves
in a personal relationship with Spirit. It is not there place to tell someone what they think God wants them to do.
And it is downright abusive to tell them they are going to hell if they dont change there ways. Do as i say or oyu will burn in hell. Every dictator that has ever lived has had the same mantra as that one.
Freebird
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Post by dianaholberg on Aug 22, 2005 23:06:56 GMT -5
I'd agree with you, if I didn't really believe it. We get glimpses of it already.
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Post by freebird on Aug 23, 2005 16:28:36 GMT -5
Diana:
Did not catch the drift of your last message. Please explain.
Freebird
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Post by dianaholberg on Aug 23, 2005 20:54:53 GMT -5
Sorry, I thought you were the one who at some point had posted about some people experiencing a little bit of hell now... my mistake. Bad memory at times.
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Post by freebird on Aug 23, 2005 23:53:02 GMT -5
Diana:
I might have posted about hell being an experience now. My life has had some experiences in which i would call
a personal hell. And yes i believe i have also had some heaven on earth experiences also. No judgement for me in the afterlife. Just a life review which might be painful because i will see where my life could have been easier with just a few different choices made at the time. I believe we judge ourselves more harshly than any God could or would.
Freebird
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Post by freebird on Aug 25, 2005 1:10:17 GMT -5
God Without Religion
God doesnt come in, for God never left!! And if God never left, I am and will always be an expression of God. I want to know God as the infinite resourse within. The only difference between Jesus and us is our awareness of oneness
There is nowhere where I can go to get any closer to God than right were I am. God is present with me because I am
present. Thus comes the renewed awareness of who I really am and opens me up to the flow of God.
Freebird
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