Changed based on post by R Harrison in Discuss:How do you pray
Prayer is to be able to speak to God, and to know that He will listen to you. Often a person will get on their knees and start talking to no one in particular, hoping that it is God who they are [...]
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First, I’m not sure where the notion that Lucifer, a.k.a. Satan, is second only to God in intelligence. Still, for the moment, let’s assume that is true.
Intelligence and “wisdom” don’t imply that either one is ever actually used. Solomon was granted “the wisdom of God,” yet he was stupid enough to [...]
Why We Should Believe
God put us here to allow us freedom of choice, his hope is that we all choose him of our own free will. With free will comes the whole gambit of human emotions and desires; temptation, greed, lust, etc. that cause pain and suffering. If the pain and suffering were [...]
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In Chinese Characters, a sun and moon together means bright.
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In the uiniversal language of mind, the sun indicates awareness in superconscious mind. The moon indicates awareness in subconscious mind. Together would be a combination. Hightened awareness begins with the use of undivided attention with purpose.
A Pagan Perspective
Pagans [...]
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He hears them and answers, even if you don’t like the answer.
Sometimes the answer is “yes.” Sometimes the answer is “no.” Sometimes the answer is “not yet.”
No matter what, God’s answer is the best for us, even if we may not see it that way at the time.
The most [...]
Some opinions
The importance of life is to live it to the full
To live
Perhaps the true meaning of life is to find peace with God, for most people it is impossible to believe in god because it doesn’t make any scientific sense, but explain what caused the “big bang”, what [...]
Judaisms effect on modern religions
In many ways , perhaps the most significant being that after Zoroastrianism , Judaism is the second major faith that was monotheistic . In addition , the old testament , composed of the pentateuch , deutoronomy and other writings and stories of the hebrew prophets are a precursor and [...]
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In a very small way, reason and emotion do have a play in justifying moral decisions. But the main factor is our conditioning from our society, religion, ethnicity, regionalism, politics, etc.
A Buddhist will act based on Buddhist’s morality, a Christian, Muslim Jewish, etc., based on their own morality.
However, what happens if our conditioning [...]