Zone1 What is your opinion of Deepak Chopra and his non-religious beliefs about Jesus, God and all traditional religions?

[MarathonMike]

Not exactly. Loving God with all one's heart and loving one's neighbor as one loves themselves. Sounds easy to do but it's not. It's really hard because it requires one to die to self.

So if I just like God and sort of like my neighbor, I'm going to Hell?

 

[ding]

So if I just like God and sort of like my neighbor, I'm going to Hell?

I don't focus on heaven or hell. My focus is on living, not death. Is heaven and hell a big consideration of yours? Because I don't see a lot of people behaving like it's a concern. Do you?

But setting that aside, if one's relationship with God is right then all other relationships will be right and rule keeping won't be an issue because one will be falling over themselves to do right.

Does that answer your question to your satisfaction?

 

[Meriweather]

So if I just like God and sort of like my neighbor, I'm going to Hell?

One of the most powerful prayers I know was prayed by St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.), who, although raised by a Catholic mother (St. Monica), did not convert to Catholicism until his thirties and after long studies following other ways.


Breathe into me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

I always add, "And, may all the words I speak be holy."

Perhaps ask yourself whether you wish your eternal life to be where it is holy, or where it is unholy. Then recall your eternal life begins right here, right now and extends into eternity.

 

[MarathonMike]

I don't focus on heaven or hell. My focus is on living, not death. Is heaven and hell a big consideration of yours? Because I don't see a lot of people behaving like it's a concern. Do you?

But setting that aside, if one's relationship with God is right then all other relationships will be right and rule keeping won't be an issue because one will be falling over themselves to do right.

Does that answer your question to your satisfaction?

Oh come on now, how often is the threat of "eternal damnation" been waved around from a Christian pulpit? Let's be honest here. And no, it is not a concern of mine I simply asked a logical question about your requirement of pure love of God and pure love of my neighbors who I hardly know.

If I believed that there was the Christian version of a Heaven and a Hell, I would convert to Christianity in a New York minute. In general I believe in an undefineable God in the way that Deepak Chopra does. I do not mock or criticize anyone else's beliefs with regard to religion. That is what "free will" means to me.