Subject: why does God allow evil to exsit |
Bible Note: 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 |