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I have found that no single religion represents my beliefs. I practice Eastern Orthodox Christianty and im becoming more involved with Buddhism and Western Sufism.

I was referring to the last paragraph of your cut and paste hack post: ...which you didnt respond to. Whats wrong, couldnt pull yahoo or google?

Ive never really understood Muslim exegesis of John. Why do you not consider the promised 'advocate', the Spirit given in Ch. 20? Are you not being somewhat selective by finding a procphecy for your Prophet from the mouth of Jesus but dismissing passages in which he claims identification with God?

I never said there was a "organization". By western communion I mean the Church in America and England which is by far more liberal than the rest of the Church. What, do you think the Episcopal Church is conservative??? Get off your martyr complex, I wasnt taking shots at you, I was once a...

[/color][/font][/left] What debates? The divinity of Christ is something Christians seem to have settled in the 4th century. [left][b][color=#000066] Point? Christians are not the only ones who consider Muhammed a false prophet, the Jews do as well. [/size][/font] First, referring to...

*sigh* .... Did you not read my previous post??? Ok, once again....as I stated earlier:

I dont mean "myth" in a negative way or to say that its false but rather a story that is considered true in a literal or metaphoric sense by someone.

Anyone who adhreres to the Christian myth in either a literal or metaphorical way.

I practice Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity. I also do Dhikr with a Sufi Shiekh I know. I hope to one day also practice Judaism. I have a big intrest in eastern traditions like Hinduism and would like to practice it one day, but my primary intrest is in the Judeo-Christian...

Papists article indicates that the Satan is a construct of Christian mythology. Actually, Satan as he is thought of today was very much a Jewish creation, just as Christianity originally was. As the Jews returned from Exile and Hellenism began to seep into the Chosen People, breakaway sects...

Im pretty ingnorant when it comes Buddhism and Taoism. I have a basic understanding of Buddhism in the sense of what it shares with generic spirituality in other traditions. It is something im very interested in especially the idea of Buddhist mysticism. In the end I just really havent had any...

I dont really practice anything simply because I think its fun (altough, thats a part of it and why should it not be?). I have a sincere belief and devotion to God, so what seperates me from the literal minded Catholic or Muslim? A dogma? Really the only difference is the degree of literal...

No, ive come to believe its intellectualy bankrupt to approach the various traditions on the basis finding one and accepting its mother load of dogmatic beliefs. I wont make any naive statements that "all religions are the same" but underlying all the worlds Wisdom traditions is a common core of...

:scratch: Not sure what you mean here. I want to practice common Islam but im more interested in Sufism which is the mystical branch of Islam and tends to be pretty universal in its outlook. One branch of Sufism which was brough to the West by Hazrat Inayat Khan was heavily influenced by...

Over the past few months ive come to embrace the Perrenial Philosophy. Ive also had the honor to be able to study under a Sufi Shaikh who himself studied under Lex Hixon and im about to formally convert to Islam which I hope to follow with Judaism and eventually move on to the Eastern traditions...

Thats not true, common criminals were crucified all the time when it involved Roman citizens or property. Jesus, however would have been considered a enemy of the state. All the earliest sources claim the charge against him was that he claimed to be King of the Jews. This has strong multiple...

[/size][/font] Typically, the interpretation is: landowner = God Vineyard = Israel and more specifically Jerusalem Vinedressers = Jewish authorities Servants = Prophets Son = Jesus [b] Correct, sacrificial terms were used by the early Church to make sense of his death but...

Why in Gods name would you want to keep something so hateful and gross where the Body of Christ meets. So what if some Muslims wouldnt do the same, do the right thing and remove it.

Most of the negative aspects associated with jihad or the Qur'an find their origins in the Hebrew Bible specifically in Joshua with "Yahweh war". This whole "my ancient scriptures contain more modern western sensibilities than yours!" argument is rather stupid. Why not simply acknowledge that...