Concrete Jungle

God is an amazing fact of life. Whether people say there is no God or not, I believe that he was in the beginning, that he came to earth as both God's son and man. Gave his life as a sacrifice(The Romans did NOT TAKE it), and that he arose and sits now on the right hand of the father making intercession on my behalf. I see his handiwork in the stars that shine, the wind that blows, and all living creatures that NO MAN can create. So to me there is GOD and he dwells within my heart.
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Gorilla - Eloquent, but is sounds like pantheistic universalism. Could you explain your understanding of who God is? One God? Many gods? A persoal God or and impersonal god force? Or something else? Thanks.

I am the light that is over them all. I am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has attained unto me. Cleave a (piece of) wood: I am there. Raise up the stone, an ye shall find me there.

Instead of practicing the compassion He taught, man has waged crusades in His name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of His words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.

You have not to renounce anything but your own self. It is as simple as that, though found to be almost impossible. It is possible for you to renounce your limited self by my Grace.

I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.

What are you talking about? What judgment? If you mean calling it eastern mysticism and panthestic universalism, that is what it is. I never mentioned any criticsm, but rather used the word "eloquent."

I never used the word "blasphemous," you did.

It is not unchristian to judge ... it is unchristian to judge with a double standard. Christians are told to judge (evaluate) behavoirs and action beginning with ourselves (but not limited to ourselves). Hitler's extermination of the Jews was evil and needed to be stopped ... that is a judgment with a corresponding course of action AND a very Christian response. See what I mean?

Gorilla, what are you talking about? who said labeled humanism as Christian? As I am not a humanist, and since humanism by definition base on revelativism and without any absolute universially accepted standard of morality, the only rational comment that I could make is that in the case of genocide, judgment and opposition is a very Christian response. This is true. I did not make a claim of exclusivity by saying that ONLY Christians can respond that way.

Really Gorilla, this is ridiculous. I won't try to defend an incorrect position that you try to impose upon me.

Ethics and morality, to have any meaning, but be based on some absolute, transcendent,standard.

Thanks for your agreement with my point ... "Genocide is wrong" is a JUDGEMENT; I agree with that excellent judgment you just made.

To be human is to be humanist...

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to deities or authorities creating it for them.

Do you not make life what it is?

You do not have to renounce your faith to understand and acknowledge the fact that an individual makes life what it is...

If there is meaning in life, then there is meaning in life...
If the meaning does not correspond to your individual belief, it does not make it wrong, or unethical, or immoral...