| 1 year ago :: Feb 25, 2012 - 7:04AM #1 | |
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I saw this quote when I signed in this morning. Wow! I love this message! Wouldn't it be wonderful if all Christians could adopted this point of view about faith? |
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| 1 year ago :: Feb 25, 2012 - 1:00PM #2 | |
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Nino, The Hebrew word for "faith"is "emun" and conveys the idea of complete trust and hope, without doctrinal or ideological implications. The quote you posted reflects this understanding.
Walk Your Own DharmaPath; be awake.
The Socratic Standard: Follow the evidence;____ if it doesn't make sense, it's bull$#!+. Dutch |
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| 1 year ago :: Feb 26, 2012 - 12:31AM #3 | |
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That sure does get thrown around a lot round' here..."Love your neighbor as yourself" as if that is the only thing to being a Christian. You can love a person and still not accept what people do and how they live. It's not a foreign concept. |
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| 1 year ago :: Feb 26, 2012 - 4:26PM #4 | |
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I like that view on faith, it goes along with my own; Faith isn't something to practice once a week, but a way to think, speak and be. That's how I think the kingdom of heaven is to be shared. I won't bully or belittle and expect another to get there. Indeed if I had to, I would know I was outside the kingdom. |
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| 1 year ago :: Feb 26, 2012 - 8:58PM #5 | |
Kind of makes me think of Tillich's "Ground of Being".
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| 1 year ago :: Feb 27, 2012 - 3:38AM #6 | |
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Thanks Robert, (I had to look him up) You're probably right. If God's name is "I Am", the first person of "to be" or being, then the source of all being is that divine I Am, rather than the limited box of a third person perspective. As a child, I asked a teenage aunt where God is, if not in the sky. She answered, God is in everything and nothing could be without God, not even a table. Later when I learned about the energy in atoms, her statement agreed. Often it seems the third person perspective can distance us from knowledge; whether through the lens of religion or science. It is only in relation to the subject that we gather understanding. Jesus' religion was teaching people a 3rd person perspective of God. Jesus taught people to be in relationship with the divine "I Am" (God). That's why he taught us to call God, "Father". What a wonderful door to relationship in the mind of man. No wonder for the understanding of him as the "Logos". His teachings and words brought/bring life, awarness, ability to transcend the mundane, the error, even situations and circumstances. |
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 18, 2012 - 1:51PM #7 | |
Nino, In his Dynamics Of Faith, Paul Tillich draws a sharp and cogent distinction between "faith" and "belief" i.e. the doctrinal content of faith. Those who do not / cannot draw such a distinction fall within the category discussed by Dr. Bossanian.
Walk Your Own DharmaPath; be awake.
The Socratic Standard: Follow the evidence;____ if it doesn't make sense, it's bull$#!+. Dutch |
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 18, 2012 - 2:14PM #8 | |
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Freud called religion "infantile wish fulfillment" because of the view that faith is belief without evidence. People who hold this point of view are usually distinterested in discussing a rationale for their faith, or they become hostile toward those who challenge there beliefs. |
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