Subject: Take from the wicked give the righteous |
Bible Note: 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. |