BeachOfEden Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Can you explain this quote, "Have we become more clever than God?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunninglily Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Can you explain this quote, "Have we become more clever than God?" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I only meant that our judgements are not the final word. Even when we feel or think that someone is missing it...whatever that means...we can not know the end of the matter. Besides, beliefs change. Our common faith can remain stable even in the midst of contrary and changing beliefs, and though we can talk with one another and reason with one another, we are not in a position to condemn one another...or so it seems to me. lily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachOfEden Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Yes, I agree..and I think this is one of THEE biggest problems with ANY faith group that is fundamental in nature..that is...they ALL claim to have found THEE 'ONLY" offramp leading to thee highway to Jesus and thus salvation..and each fundamental faith group claims to own all the rights to it....they have set up a toll both infront of this one offramp that THEY believe in THEE only WAY to God and Christ..and to sucessfully pass by this toll both and thus this offramp, that they 'claim'..in THEE 'ONLY' right one that takes you to God/salvation...the fee is you MUST agree with 'THEIR' take on the Bible and the nature of God....and if you don;t...they view you are eternally screwed...cutt off from God... If you find another offramp and discover that it takes you to God and is not jammed with the traffic of fundamentalists slowing down the freeway to spiritual understanding..they get jealous that you found away around the right winged traffic jam..and claim you road will lead you to a dead end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo-Maniac Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 "There is a pervasive piece of wishful thinking circulating among religious moderates, and it could get a lot of us killed. The idea is that all religions, at their core, teach the same thing. This is myth." <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The problem is that most religions (meaning all the major religions, and a lot of others) DO teach basically the same moral values, etc. you've got the Golden Rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", the Wiccan Rede "An it harm none, do as thou wilt." (most Wiccans just have a problem understanding the reason why "An it harm none" is BEFORE "Do what thou wilt" and not after), Buddhism doesn't have a single such teaching, but does teach this value in general, Hinduism has similar teachings. What most people seem to forget, well, no, what they refuse to admit, is that we're all trying to understand the same thing, we just have different ways of going about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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