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There is a book with a great title that says it all: “When Bad Christians Happen to Good People”.

I've never been subjected to "brainwashing" in church.

Fallable people searching for a solution to their condition, a meaning to life and answers to unanswerable questions .....

When we put worldly conformity first and the Lord's cause second...

We go where our heart is.

Islam seems to be doing better these days

Newsflash.......people screw up everything they get involved with. Is this something new?

And yet people who can't believe that to be true turn around and in the next breath and profess their belief in a God that apparently sprang forth from nothing.

Attributing the creation of the universe to a god doesn't solve any grand mystery. Because the question simply shifts to, "Where did this god come from?" What made him?

God, an inexplicable explanation for an inexplicable question: the existence of a universe.

Because the vast majority of what is presented as Christianity ain't.

Between all the "new" translations of The Bible , The knowledge of what the Papists have been up to all along and what some of Gods chosen people are up to generally....

Dont get me wrong , I still believe , more than ever in fact.

It came to me that a God that can be as precisely defined as people say he is between two leather covers containing 1250 pages , is limited by the description within those pages and then limited again by how people interpret or comprehend the same ?

Even naming God is an attempt to define God and somehow places the limit of human comprehension on God as I see things. The Gnostics and Kabbalists hint at it.

The entity Ive come to believe in is without limit or parameter or definition. It simply "Is".

Nothing actual can be apart from "Is".

Is , is every atom , and the space between the particles. "Is" created the universe, remember?

This belief simplifies it considerably. My part is to be reverent, forgiving and grateful.

My part is to Love Is and treat everyone the way I'd want to be treated and I fail at that ,miserably , every day, if I were being honest. Learning to forgive others with the same short coming is where I'm trying to work in order that I may be forgiven. I suck at that too.

We are the journey, "Is" , is the destination.

Everything else is superfluous.

Others mileage will likely vary.

Between all the "new" translations of The Bible , The knowledge of what the Papists have been up to all along and what some of Gods chosen people are up to generally....

Dont get me wrong , I still believe , more than ever in fact.

It came to me that a God that can be as precisely defined as people say he is between two leather covers containing 1250 pages , is limited by the description within those pages and then limited again by how people interpret or comprehend the same ?

Even naming God is an attempt to define God and somehow places the limit of human comprehension on God as I see things. The Gnostics and Kabbalists hint at it.

The entity Ive come to believe in is without limit or parameter or definition. It simply "Is".

Nothing actual can be apart from "Is".

Is , is every atom , and the space between the particles. "Is" created the universe, remember?

This belief simplifies it considerably. My part is to be reverent, forgiving and grateful.

My part is to Love Is and treat everyone the way I'd want to be treated and I fail at that ,miserably , every day, if I were being honest. Learning to forgive others with the same short coming is where I'm trying to work in order that I may be forgiven. I suck at that too.

We are the journey, "Is" , is the destination.

Everything else is superfluous.

Others mileage will likely vary.[/quote





You should read the Tao Te Ching.

How does one "back up" a conviction based on faith?

Are you assuming that professing Christians are on a quest to solve some Grand Mystery?

It might be interesting to see and analyze your proof for the above.

By cutting off your head if you don't agree.

Western Christianity is empty, hollow, in disarray and has little offer. Anytime there's a fracture within a congregation, any jack-ass with a Bible under their arm can call themselves a "preacher" and is free to go out and reinvent it in their own image and start a new "church". Everytime that happens, it dilutes what The Church was supposed to be and becomes another degree removed from it.

Could have something to do with closet gay preachers and the fact that churches need preachers bad enough that they hire such and find out later

This is our teaching too. Although we do have saints on display.