All Gods and deities and related items are fictional characters created by man in his own image, for his own amusement. Sorta like Batman, Klingons, Jim Rockford or any other fictional character you can name.
Friends called me "Rockford" and "Rockfish" for years, because I was a PI, had same car and same pickup his dad had, and lived in a trailer! True story.
Friends called me "Rockford" and "Rockfish" for years, because I was a PI, had same car and same pickup his dad had, and lived in a trailer! True story.
I've never denied the existence of Gods and deities. They exist -- in the human heart. Therefore they can be and are everything we ourselves are. I am glad to see you are love.
Sorry, when someone refers to an all-powerful, non-humanoid being I just assume "alien". People prefer aliens to a *humanoid* I guess.
And I don't have trouble accepting that people view God differently. I understand that they do. My question is ... why would you rather put your faith in a completely subjective fantasy, rather than explore the perfect God we already know about?
It's arrogant.
You have that chance every day. But when you bait, and then mock, some people are going to move on, and leave you to Buddha.
I can hear you giggling when I tell you that God talks to me.
It doesn't affect my faith in God, not at all.
But it does affect my faith in you.
People who start a discussion of religion as a guise to attack other people's religion is not new to me (though I don't ever recall it being a Buddhist leveling the attacks). I've often wondered why they do it, and I've come to the conclusion that it is because whatever their faith is (Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, All forms of Protestantism, and now we can add Buddhism) it isn't strong enough for them to be comfortable in their life and confident of their faith.
When your faith is solid, you truly will not care what other people think, because you will understand that faith, ALL faith, is a uniquely personal thing, and allowing others to have their faith is the nature of faith itself.
What works for me will not work for you, and vice versa.
And the reason for that is God. He isn't the same spirit to each of us. His affect on your life is custom tailored to your life, your experience, your knowledge. To you, he is Buddha, or Buddhism. To me, he is that omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being which seems to frustrate you so.
He talks to me. A lot.
And I know people laugh when I say that. But to NOT say it, when it is undeniably, unequivocally true, would make me "not a good friend."
Roll in the floor, pee your pants, call me insane. I'll keep listening for him.
He speaks to me, just as he speaks to everyone.
But if you don't have true faith, you cannot hear him.
Yet
You have that chance every day. But when you bait, and then mock, some people are going to move on, and leave you to Buddha.
I can hear you giggling when I tell you that God talks to me.
It doesn't affect my faith in God, not at all.
But it does affect my faith in you.
People who start a discussion of religion as a guise to attack other people's religion is not new to me (though I don't ever recall it being a Buddhist leveling the attacks). I've often wondered why they do it, and I've come to the conclusion that it is because whatever their faith is (Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, All forms of Protestantism, and now we can add Buddhism) it isn't strong enough for them to be comfortable in their life and confident of their faith.
When your faith is solid, you truly will not care what other people think, because you will understand that faith, ALL faith, is a uniquely personal thing, and allowing others to have their faith is the nature of faith itself.
What works for me will not work for you, and vice versa.
And the reason for that is God. He isn't the same spirit to each of us. His affect on your life is custom tailored to your life, your experience, your knowledge. To you, he is Buddha, or Buddhism. To me, he is that omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being which seems to frustrate you so.
He talks to me. A lot.
And I know people laugh when I say that. But to NOT say it, when it is undeniably, unequivocally true, would make me "not a good friend."
Roll in the floor, pee your pants, call me insane. I'll keep listening for him.
He speaks to me, just as he speaks to everyone.
But if you don't have true faith, you cannot hear him.
Yet
