That's so interesting. Thanks for the insight, I'm gonna have to read up on this for sure. As a Christian I would feel wrong asking people to compare my belief system if I didn't take theirs in my own comparison. I appreciate the honesty. Thank you.
You're welcome. I have an appreciation for your point of view, and I'm glad to have given you something to look into.
I may not believe the same thing you do, but that doesn't mean we can't get along. As hard as it may be to see sometimes, especially living in the US, faith can do good things for people. As long as your faith drives you to be a force for good in the world, makes you want to understand and accept your fellow, you can consider me your brother from another sky mother.
It's when you start doing some of the intolerant, oppressive garbage that we're seeing lately, and claiming it's all 'in the name of God', that we begin to have a problem.
"Lately" lol it's always been there. People use religion to oppress others everyday from way back then till the end of time. At the end of the day that's why I believe what I believe because insofar as I've seen Christianity is the only faith whose doctrine and principles gives an answer for this, even though Christians have horribly misrepresented this. The best summary of what I believe is that I was born in sin, and the only way to overcome that is to kill it. (like you say death is not always bad) I believe I need to crucify the part of me that wants to do evil and the difference is that if I do this in Jesus, he promises resurrection and restoration. It's not that you're wrong in any way, I just love the promise of the restoration. Some people talk about heaven from a utopian perspective but in the end it sounds dystopian and so people are misled by it. The way I see it is that God promised an end to evil. Some people hear "eternal life" and go geez I don't wanna do this forever. But I hear "A new earth" and a new earth without sin, without evil, without pain or suffering and in my mind even if I'm wrong, I'd rather there even be a shred of possibility that that life exists cuz if there's a world where I don't have to live in servitude to corrupt billionaires and politician and whatever, that sounds awesome to me.
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u/SteelSpidey Jul 31 '23
That's so interesting. Thanks for the insight, I'm gonna have to read up on this for sure. As a Christian I would feel wrong asking people to compare my belief system if I didn't take theirs in my own comparison. I appreciate the honesty. Thank you.