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1 | why does God allow evil to exsit | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138951 | ||
Dear Brad, I'm not espousing anything, only giving an alternative answer to a long-standing debate. I am curious, though, and I hope you take this in the spirit in which it is asked with all sincerety: What is it you are looking for... to buy, as you put it so aptly.? Sincerely, Doc Edwards at shankara@comcast.net | ||||||
2 | why does God allow evil to exsit | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138950 | ||
Dear CDBJ, What yopu callnot being "quite sure" is what I call the continuous evolving spirit. The light I refer to is the understanding of the mystery of the kingdom of God. You see, as simple as everyone wishes the scriptures to be and as simple as some think they are is just simply not the truth. We are being taught more and more everyday. Paul said to some he "gave milk" because they were spirituallly like children, but to others he "gave meat", which is something of substance, deeper, mystical truths about the kingdom. One of the problems we would have if we talked very long is that of language: You use one set of spiritual references, I use another. As to my position in heaven, I feel more secure in absolute certainity than I could ever possibly put into mere words; my feelings here transcend into wonder and the renewing feeling that it generates in all of us who experience it daily, hour by hour, even moment by moment, thus moving me closer to the absolute assurance that can only come from grace. | ||||||
3 | Is Jesus refering men as gods ? Help | Ps 82:6 | Shankara | 138945 | ||
Christ reiterated this point of man being a god in John 10:34-35. Here Christ too is referring to the quote in the 82nd Psalm. I have found that Jesus, contrary to what many would prefer, always meant just exactly what He said with never so much as the hint of ambiguity; therefore I can only conclude rightly that by our Lord's own admission man is also "a god" though not "The" one supreme God. | ||||||
4 | why does God allow evil to exsit | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138944 | ||
The good Dr. Boyd has, by strictly verbal means, removed some of the venal venom that always seems to be dripping from real evil's mouth when you are face to face with it. I'm sorry but Dr. Boyd's reply, while erudite, still leaves me shuddering at the prospect of meeting something someday (as many of us who have directly encountered "evil" have before) that doesn't quite fit his noble explanation. There is just simply not enough teeth in this explanation to bite into and hold tight onto evil's tail when we encounter the real and terrible thing it can be. | ||||||
5 | Take from the wicked give the righteous | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138942 | ||
To: Hank, I see my liberalism threatens your comfort zone of fundamental absolutism concerning conventional, mainstream Christianity, and I certainly respect that,even though, I vehemently disagree. I come to this conclusion based on your use of "their" language and terms. I know you are as welded to your belief-system as I am to mine, but at least, I have been where you are now, so I am familiar with both sides of this coin. If you have no nagging questions that are left unanswered (adequately, that is)by your beliefs, and if you get everything you need from this religious view, then I will say no more, though, I did not get what I needed from this narrow rung on the spiritual ladder, no matter how hard I tried. Remembering the spiritual view as I would imagine it to be from your perspective, reminds me of those hapless despairing days of fundamentalism. That perspective simply never worked for me, no matter how many times I went down on my prayerful knees or climbed up Calvary to the cross; it only left me void and empty with only a handful of emotionalisms and simplistic, puerile teachings that could not be questioned since the strictly Calvary interpretation allows for no questioning leading to contrary conclusions; those that do so run the risk of being labeled blasphemous and contrary, and in all likely probability are assessed to be demonically inspired. Now, truthfully, how can anyone go up against a belief-system with that sort of closed circuit net around it; your demonized and counted out before you can offer the first challenge. No, that sort of totalitarianism is not for me, thank you. I have found what I know beyond any doubt is at least part of some wonderful truth, if not the whole of it indeed. In coming to this conclusion, I use the criteria that Jesus Christ suggested we use in evaluating any spiritual teaching and more particularly the people involved in it: "By their fruits ye shall know them." This is all I can go on, so you see where I am coming from. But there is one thing I can tell you without hesitation: the fruits I am now getting are luscious and sweet, as well as filling to the soul and they work in my whole life unlike anything I have ever involved myself in before. I am trukly blessed for having found the path back to the Garden. Good luck and many blessings in yours. | ||||||
6 | Evidence? | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138360 | ||
To Tim Moranm: I was simply working from memory in my first answer. I apologize. The second answer for rah is the correct answer. It means "disasters." |
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7 | Evidence? | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138359 | ||
To Tim Moranm: I was simply working from memory in my first answer. I apologize. The second answer for rah is the correct answer. It means "disasters." |
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8 | why does God allow evil to exsit | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138282 | ||
Dear CDBJ, My statement about "liberation from fundamentalistic views" was simply meant to be rhetorical. I have always believed, as did Christ, that "by their fruits ye shall know them" and that was the only way I had of judging my orthodox (though,historically I don't really believe that word applies) experience for over thirty years. During those years, everything kept telling me there was something missing from this egg-shell (empty on the inside) religion, that I and everyone else that claimed main-stream Christianity had either over-looked or just not been shown yet. When I began meditation over twenty years ago and started feeling the Divine Pressense within me, besides noticing that everytime this occured I experienced more and more in the way of personal spiritual revelations in addition to just coincidentally being led to whatever sources held answers to some question on my mind, some particular spiritual question that might be nagging at my consciousness. Well, then and there, I realized this religious thing, even cloaked under Constntine's franchise and soap-box, that still I got the answers that meant something, as well as adressing something, deep inside of my soul. As God revealed the light in meditation, I would then wallk therein. It was like a set of spiritual cataracts were removed from my (what I call in retrospect) fundamentalistic eyes. It has brought me to a sense of personal knowing, a knowing beyond all doubt; and while I certainly don't believe in condescension toward those I feel to be a little lower on the ascendency ladder, still I feel it my responsibility within the comfort of propriety to attempt to help others to have and experience this wonderful thing I've come to know: God as an immediate experience of transcendense "nearer to me than "hands and feet." As to my opinion about 1 Cor. 1:18, I whole heartedly agree with it. Though, I do have other concerns with some of the venerable Paul's wording, as well as some of his personal spiritual outcomes in his own life. If you need more information, please feel free to contact me at shankara@comcast.net Sincerely, Doc Edwards |
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9 | Take from the wicked give the righteous | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138071 | ||
The whole question of the good (righteous?) versus the bad is wrapped up in the basic premise dealing with good and evil. Therefore, the answer I gave earlier to the question of "Why does God allow evil?" is relative directly to this question, too. As to whether gambling is good or bad is once again a question dealing with morality, and everyone knows morality is open to cultural interpretation; however, that being said, there are a very few basic things relative, that is, in an across-the-board way, to all cultures; these are the few moral platitudes that can be assumed as generally evil to all cultures and mankind in gneral. Most all of them concen the uninvited involvement of one person in another person's reality: if I were to kill you that would be universally wrong,because I would be violating the cross-cultural dictum against sticking my uninvited nose in another's reality, and in this case, in a very serious and permanently damaging way. If you will but think about it, you will see this is a good rule of thumb no matter what faith you are, to measure the value of a moral judgment against. Do unto others as they would want you to do unto them. That is the best way to put it. Jesus always put things in a succinct and non-ambiguous way. My wife wishes I would go and do likewise. | ||||||
10 | Take from the wicked give the righteous | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138070 | ||
The whole question of the good (righteous?) versus the bad is wrapped up in the basic premise dealing with good and evil. Therefore, the answer I gave earlier to the question of "Why does God allow evil?" is relative directly to this question, too. As to whether gambling is good or bad is once again a question dealing with morality, and everyone knows morality is open to cultural interpretation; however, that being said, there are a very few basic things relative, that is, in an across-the-board way, to all cultures; these are the few moral platitudes that can be assumed as generally evil to all cultures and mankind in gneral. Most all of them concen the uninvited involvement of one person in another person's reality: if I were to kill you that would be universally wrong,because I would be violating the cross-cultural dictum against sticking my uninvited nose in another's reality, and in this case, in a very serious and permanently damaging way. If you will but think about it, you will see this is a good rule of thumb no matter what faith you are, to measure the value of a moral judgment against. Do unto others as they would want you to do unto them. That is the best way to put it. Jesus always put things in a succinct and non-ambiguous way. My wife wishes I would go and do likewise. | ||||||
11 | Made a mistake in copying question. | Bible general Archive 2 | Shankara | 138052 | ||
I mistakeningly put a quote from Genesis in with my first question about Matt 8:20 and Luke 9:60, sorry. | ||||||