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I also think that it is God who knows God. As a human, I have a finite mind. The finite mind cannot grasp the infinite. So yes, there is a surrender component to all of it. You surrender the 'false self', but you don't cease to exist. I've had that experience many, many times. To me God neither...

I am happy, and for no reason whatsoever. Happiness doesn't need any reasons, whereas unhappiness does. The less I try to find a reason to be happy, the happier I am. Imagine that. Looking for happiness implies that you don't have it. There comes a point where one must come to a full stop and rest.

If something is a gift, then I don't need to give anything back. How does it make any sense to say, "I'll gift you salvation but only IF". That's conditional love..which makes it a transaction...which isn't divine. It's like reducing love to that of buying groceries.

If the word of God has me looking down on others for not believing what I believe, then I can't see that as the word of God

You said that the opposite of doubt is belief. That means they are two sides of the same coin. You cannot separate belief from doubt no more than you can have daylight without night.

Conditional love can never be God then. Conditional love belongs to man, not God. God is unconditional love. This is why I don't agree with the idea of being worthy of love ONLY if this or that. It's asinine. True love can never be a transaction I think what Jesus meant by being the way is...

One thing with Christianity is that us liberals can never be Christians in the fundamental sense. We can be progressive Christians...but the fundamentalists will obviously think we are heretics. Fundamental Christianity just doesn't mesh with being a liberal.

I don't believe in a God for the simple reason that God is love or more accurately, love is God. How can love ever be a creator entity? Humans can be creators in the sense of buildings and all that but love? I cannot get on board with God being a father or creator that you can just have a...

I've always thought that if I knew why I was here, it would suck out all the wonder and mystery of life. Why analyze and try to figure life out? We can figure out things within life such as how to make rubber or build a computer. But figuring life itself out, I feel completely destroys it. I...

In the end, all that matters is having peace. Even if one doesn't follow Christ, nothing beats having peace, right this instant. People can go on about how one day you will come before God and go to heaven or hell, I could care less. The real question is, are you at peace right this instant or not?

Lol I understood what you were saying halfway into your post and after that I could no longer follow along. Not because I disagree but because all these words are so loaded, it turns into reading something akin to a poem. All I know is that I know nothing and no matter what happens, everything...

Eyewitness testimony is also open to scrutiny. The people back then had less technology and didn't have much science either-they believed all sorts of things that they simply couldn't explain. There are also people in corners of the world who will never know of Jesus, any eyewitness testimony...

I will start by saying that all belief systems are there because we do not know. When you know something, belief becomes unnecessary. You only believe something because you don't know. I've spoken with many Christians and have done a lot of reading. I'll come across articles by apologetics...

Can the waves of an ocean exist without the ocean? Can a movie be seen without a screen? We often say how beautiful something like a flower or the moon is. But you know what's truly beautiful? The seeing which illuminates those things. In the end, all is one...appearing as a multiplicity of...

Everything appears in consciousness. Nothing can exist outside of awareness. Even if you're not there to be aware of a particular object, that object does not exist by itself separate from the awareness of it.

Mind and consciousness are not synonyms. Why? Because you are conscious or aware of your thoughts. Consciousness is just a knowing light, that's it. Without it, there would be nothing to illuminate this entire experience right now which you call life. Your mind is a bundle of thoughts and...

What is your experience of time when you don't think about it? You're not thinking of the past or future. What are you left with?

False. I could not get on board since the day I learned about Christianity, I never had a bad experience because I never subscribed to begin with. My parents never took Christianity seriously so it's not like they were fundamentalists who pushed it on me as a kid. They would only go to church to...

I'll say this, if it changes..then it is not consciousness. You conflate consciousness with the mind. I'm not talking about conscience or mind, but consciousness only. The medium with which we can know anything at all. It's like the screen onto which a movie is playing. I have actually tried to...