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Not a peep?
Some of my more profound postulations too.
Took a lot of whiskey to come up with those gems.
Your toons usually are so distracting...
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Not a peep?
Some of my more profound postulations too.
Took a lot of whiskey to come up with those gems.
Certainly.Wonderful post... But would you mind to further explain what the forbidden fruit was and why work... was given to man? So many genuinely seem to have no clue.Is it really necessary that a persons faith be organized into a religion...?
If you accept that there is a higher power than yourself and you require yourself to do the right, fair and proper things..etc.
Eh...just thinking out loud..
You'll probably see me post this again in the future.
God is a God of order. Everything we need to know as humans is in Genesis. He created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. To show that man was not created to work, but to worship Him. As well as to show that The Sabbath was created for man, not man for The Sabbath. Work came in the form of a curse after they ate of the forbidden fruit. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked...
Everything man needed, was already provided by the time he was created. Air to breathe, animals for companionship and for caring, nature to enjoy and to tend to, fruits of all manner to eat and partake of. Fruits and vegatables were the original diet BTW. Not meat. That came after sin was introduced in the world.
Everything God does is done in order. He created the heavens and the earth, then the sea and then the trees/greenage, then the animals, etc. So too, should we worship. The Church is a body. aka the Body of Christ. Your eye doesn't look one way and you walk another way, that's a dysfunctional body. So too goes The Church.
The lack of "rules" as you put it is akin to free-for-all, which is not order, and is akin to chaos, which is not of God's will, as God is a God of order.
Hopefully you got the point.
Genesis 3:22 said:And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
It was that same fruit that was the cause or the object of the first lie. Which was "thou shalt not surely die." That first lie, is the root cause of MUCH deception and confusion in the Christian world and beyond (but that's another topic altogether)Genesis3:3 said:But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3 said:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Now because of sin, which is turning away from God, or disobeying God, we, as humans now have to bear pain in childbirth vs. 16. The dominion of male over female. Not the corrupt RW version, just dominion and it states that the woman will desire her husband as well, so these are the rules of nature as ordained by God.Genesis 3 said:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
There was a time when humankind had only the earth beneath feat and stars above head as spiritual guidposts.
I think we would do well to revert to the basics.
Is it really necessary that a persons faith be organized into a religion...?
If you accept that there is a higher power than yourself and you require yourself to do the right, fair and proper things..etc.
Eh...just thinking out loud..
Is it really necessary that a persons faith be organized into a religion...?It is for most people.
They need rules and boundries to guide them.
Is it really necessary that a persons faith be organized into a religion...?It is for most people.
They need rules and boundries to guide them.
Yes, just like you need to learn math, science and reading, as well as the rules for a decent society while you're in school.
But you don't stay in school forever, eventually, you strike out on your own with the knowledge that you'd learned to find your own way.
Yes, religions have rules and dogma, but those are just starting steps towards a genuine relationship with whatever you call your Higher Power.