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No. And a question for you... What does it mean to you to " live the life God wants you to live" if not to love others?
Christians are commanded to love God (of the Bible) with all their heart and mind, and also to love our neighbor as ourselves.
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I mean that I have experienced people treating me with love. I also mean that there are times when a person says something or does something not even intended for me, but that I witness and speaks to something in my own life, that lets me know that God is present and active.
OK, thanks for explaining.
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I assume that there are mechanisms at work in our reality that have yet to be discovered or explained. Is that what you mean?
Do you believe there is more to reality than the material world? (examples: soul, consciousness, after-life, reincarnation, spirits, angels, devil, witchcraft, ghosts, psychic abilities, astral projection, etc)
Needless to say there are many ways to go about learning; from mistakes, from hardship, from success, from pain and hardship. From others and on and on...
"We don't change because we see the light. We change because we feel the heat."
May we all become as enlightened as we are able with as little suffering as possible, but also while knowing that suffering is inevitable.
Agree re: learning; that said, education is the key to knowledge/awareness (and the answer in re: 'human suffering'). It's certainly not 'enlightenment' or any spiritual belief nor is there 'all good/god' or 'all evil/satan'.
That said, rejecting an 'evil god' due to suffering is akin to rejecting Santa because he didn't bring you what you wanted for Christmas. How about simply, there is no god nor Santa; we're on our own to navigate the world (and provide for our own holidays).
Do you remember who were the worst examples of Christian posters using those terms to bash atheists?
I can remember Kidbrick from way back when - he may even be around under a different name, and But I can't swear it was him. And the names escape me now. But I do recall that the term 'Darwinist pondslime' was particularly associated with the evolution debate when it was still freely permitted - until quite recently.
The Hitler accusation was pretty frequent, too... and we used to post
Since that apologetic (extra Biblical historians attest to Jesus) popped up every other page.
Great days they were, Campbell 34 and his Ark -threads. We don't get the Ark (s) ) at all now, since they got their fingers burned over the Nami Scami ..we shall not see their like again
Now where are my pipe and slippers...and where did I put my coffee....mumble...
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