I was not totally ecstatically fulfilled and a peace with my life.
As it turns out, I'm quite happy with my life. At times life is very fulfilling and peaceful, and at other times it is not. However, at all times it is my life, and has meaning for me.
2. I thought about what if I was wrong.
Pascal's Wager is only a way to give up your integrity, which is sacred beyond measure. It is pure loss.
Then I the more I studied the more I knew the Bible was inerrant.
As with WickedWillow, I experienced the opposite.
eudaimonia,
Mark
__________________ It's better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else's dream.
-- Commander Koenig, Space: 1999
If I found a religion that connected me to God better, sure...
Nice answer.
Personally, I'm very comfy being a Christian. The love, support and encouragement from the Holy Spirit is too wonderful for me to ever consider changing.
As it turns out, I'm quite happy with my life. At times life is very fulfilling and peaceful, and at other times it is not. However, at all times it is my life, and has meaning for me.
Pascal's Wager is only a way to give up your integrity, which is sacred beyond measure. It is pure loss.
As with WickedWillow, I experienced the opposite.
eudaimonia,
Mark
Would you mind sharing what you thought to be errors in teh Bible??
__________________ 2 Timothy 2 : 23Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
Would you mind sharing what you thought to be errors in teh Bible??
I find that they mainly have to do with the parts that involve ink.
This line of conversation cannot end productively. The philosophical assumptions (supernatural, ethical, etc) of the Bible writers would not be shown to be true even if the Bible did not contain obvious contradictions or false statements about the basic shape of historical events. I am certain that the Bible writers and compilers at least tried to avoid such problems and kept them to a minimum. The problems of the Bible are much deeper than this.
eudaimonia,
Mark
__________________ It's better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else's dream.
-- Commander Koenig, Space: 1999
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Hmm; I'd change my beliefs if I found they didn't suit me, or if the good Lady was pointing me in another direction. But I'm pretty happy with my current religion. I think a jump from being an Atheist to being Pagan was big enough for now. I'm just going to live my life and see where this path takes me, but I'll never be totally set in my ways. As I continue to learn my beliefs will surely change over time, just probably not as dirastically as they did the last time.
__________________ "People only see what they are prepared to see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For every joy there is a price to be paid."
- Egyptian proverb
The non-denoms I worship with can't get me to cut my denominational ties so I really can't see changing from Christianity as a whole.
__________________ "If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other." Galations 5:15
"...a vice does not lose its nature, though it becomes ever so fashionable" -John Wesley
"To study too much in retreat can become an inexcusable indulgence. It behooves us to share what we have learned, to practice in administering to others what we have gathered from our experience with books" -the Brother Superior of the Glauxian Brothers of the Northern Kingdoms
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