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Good question.
Good enough.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:39 pmGood question.
Hell if I know.
I infer certain things about The Creator's character, but, as he's absent, Inferences are all I got.
I am open to other people's judgment and guidance too. There is no higher authority in my world-view.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 9:39 pm I am my highest authority, judge and guide. Who is yours?
As a Gnostic Christian, I follow the esoteric teachings of Jesus.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
This fits perfectly with the bibles teachings that we are to judge all things and hold to the good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
This is a compulsion to be our own masters instead of just kowtowing to someone else’s opinions.
This is also why Christians used their inquisitions on us. Freedom of thought was not allowed by Christianity.
A concept and freedom that Christians now seem to promote.
Many Christians follow the teachings of, to us, a genocidal and infanticidal demiurge, Yahweh.
How Christians can see him as a good god is beyond me and Christians shy away from any apologetics as to why they think such a satanic god is good.
I see my judgements as more moral than that immoral demiurge and that is why I have rejected him for Jesus.
Do you follow 1 Thessalonians 5:21, or do you let someone else do your judging for you?
Regards
DL
I guess we'll find out if that's true or not.
If you were ever honest with yourself, GIA's statement would be appropriate to describe yourself as much as anyone else.
But you decide in the end.bahman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 2:35 pmI am open to other people's judgment and guidance too. There is no higher authority in my world-view.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 9:39 pm I am my highest authority, judge and guide. Who is yours?
As a Gnostic Christian, I follow the esoteric teachings of Jesus.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
This fits perfectly with the bibles teachings that we are to judge all things and hold to the good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
This is a compulsion to be our own masters instead of just kowtowing to someone else’s opinions.
This is also why Christians used their inquisitions on us. Freedom of thought was not allowed by Christianity.
A concept and freedom that Christians now seem to promote.
Many Christians follow the teachings of, to us, a genocidal and infanticidal demiurge, Yahweh.
How Christians can see him as a good god is beyond me and Christians shy away from any apologetics as to why they think such a satanic god is good.
I see my judgements as more moral than that immoral demiurge and that is why I have rejected him for Jesus.
Do you follow 1 Thessalonians 5:21, or do you let someone else do your judging for you?
Regards
DL
It is true now and reality should be what all respond to and not some invisible imaginary entity.
Well, we'll see.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:27 pm It is true now and reality should be what all respond to and not some invisible imaginary entity.
How should one live then?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:34 pmWell, we'll see.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:27 pm It is true now and reality should be what all respond to and not some invisible imaginary entity.
Everybody thinks he's his own boss, until he dies. Then he either finds out nothing, or he finds out he wasn't his own judge in the first place.
So we'll see.
"Unknown" isn't the opposite of "reality." There's plenty of reality that is unknown.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:46 pm It seems that you want to live in fear of the unknown instead of reality.
The dreaded definition of words point.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:51 pm"Unknown" isn't the opposite of "reality." There's plenty of reality that is unknown.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:46 pm It seems that you want to live in fear of the unknown instead of reality.
The question is not what we want to believe, but what is true regardless of whether or not we want to believe it.
Incorrect. I'm being very objectivistic about that.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:09 pmToo much subjectivism in that to let us be sidetracked. Let's not go there, please.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:51 pm"Unknown" isn't the opposite of "reality." There's plenty of reality that is unknown.Greatest I am wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:46 pm It seems that you want to live in fear of the unknown instead of reality.
The question is not what we want to believe, but what is true regardless of whether or not we want to believe it.
Yep. What I said.You are correct, of course, that plenty of reality is unknown.