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again... no evidence, only faith supporting that conclusion...
Yes, other religions and many of those believed to be gods and goddesses are angels---but they are fallen angels! Demons.
Many people would find such disrespect of their faith to be highly offensive. You're essentially insulting entire cultures.
How would you feel if someone made such a sweeping statement like that, about Jesus? It's that kind of talk that leads to people feeling justified about "Holy" wars (now THERE'S an oxymoron)!
What happened to Christ's lessons on tolerance and mutual respect?
I think you cannot be sure of anything beyond the truth of God's love. That's part of the challenge of living, that we cannot be sure. Believing in the Bible is a way for people to feel sure, but it's all based simply on a belief, nothing more.The bible talks about this stuff. It is either God's word or it isn't. If you don;t believe it, then you can never be sure of anything. If you do believe that God has given us His word in writing, so we can read and know Him, then you KNOW.
Knowing Christ, and having His spirit living in me, I can know that what I hear, read, or see is error, by knowing the word and that His Spirit confers with my own and He tells me.
It is a knowing like none other.
I think you cannot be sure of anything beyond the truth of God's love. That's part of the challenge of living, that we cannot be sure. Believing in the Bible is a way for people to feel sure, but it's all based simply on a belief, nothing more.
I think that we can live with faith without hanging our faith on rigid adherence to a particular doctrine. I think that Christianity is one path to knowing God. It's one path among many. Christianity is no more true than any other faith is, in my view. It's no less true either. I think that people can grow closer to God through Buddhism and through Judaism and through paganism, just as we can grow closer to God through Christianity.
For me personally, the practice of faith does not require adherence to a particular doctrine. I am fine with not knowing. I believe that as humans, we can know only a portion of truth, never the whole of it.
Today is my birthday. It's my first birthday since my father passed away this past May. His passing was gentle, and God spared him and us anguish in that. I had the blessing of being with my dad for the last 10 hours of his life, as he died. It was a profoundly moving experience and a great blessing. We talked about our love for each other, and he said, "You've made me very happy. I want you to know that." Of course, I knew that, and it was great to share it with him again.
My dad has always accepted me as a gay person. That was never a barrier between us. We have always been very close. I feel sad in the small moments, like when the Red Sox won the World Series this year, and he wasn't here to see it. Or on my birthday, and he isn't here to share it with us. He told me, though, as he lay dying that he was comforted that I have my daughter. And I love my daughter the way he loved me, and that's a deep love, a love that flows from God. I have much to be thankful for on this day.
thankyou.I am so sorry to hear of your terrible loss. I am holding you in the light, in the Quaker tradition. My heart goes out to you, dear friend. And my heart goes out to your former partner and to all who love her.
thankyou.My heart goes out to you, EnemyPartyII. I can't begin to understand the kind of emotional torment you must be enduring right now, or how it may be testing your faith, but I hope that your mind can find some calm so that any action taken under the duress of your loss doesn't adversely affect things in your life which you may regret later.
Still, I understand how bigotry can create feelings of utter contempt for those that have such hateful views, whether that person is a blood relative, a co-worker, or just an anonymous person posting over the internet.
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