Jerry

PaulS, I have read through a few of the posts on this thread and feel I get the gist of where this is going. I generally support your explanations on this topic. I have come from a prior fundamentalist view of the Bible and can be sympathetic with the positioning of others on this thread, however, I have discovered that spiritual freedom, for me, demands that I enter into an honest discussion with reality. For me, God no longer has to conform to dogma, even that which men have derived from a self-designated "Holy Book", and the Divine has been set free from the constricting box of dogmatic

I am a former SDA minister and retired Florida CPA. I have been on a spiritual journey for over 50 years and lean toward a progressive understanding of Christianity. I am an avid reader of non-fiction books and particularly those that tend to equip me to live at a higher level spiritually, though I confess I am too often distracted from an upward climb falling back into old habits and trivial issues. I feel an affinity toward all who suffer injustice and are marginalized, though I'm not much of an activist crusader when it comes to public protests. My support for these causes has been more