Post by Re-Yupanqui on Mar 31, 2004 15:50:18 GMT -5
OK all, as I was eating dinner I wondered.... How does God know when your'e praying? You say "Amen" at the end, but the beginning? Does he reads your thoughts all the time? This seems very kindergarten-y, I know, but the BIG point for me is that questioning your faith is healthy and not exactly Atheistic. Also, devout means different thiings to different people. To me, devout means believing because, as I said before, God's forgiveness is free by faith. Therefore, if I believe, I am devout.
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Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want to. I myself am a Lutheran by way of family and I have gone a little farther than the church to say that as long as you believe there is a God then you will be up in heaven with him when you die or rapture occurs. I dont think he cares what you do with your life as long as you stay within the moral guidelines he set forth with the ten commandments. My mother thinks there is no God because how could he let things like the World Trade Center happen if there were. Anyway just my opinion.
Post by Grub (Lenlyvit) on Mar 31, 2004 19:04:37 GMT -5
This is an interesting thread, but I just read through it now...
Yupanqui, God is onipresent, so he knows everything that we're thinking and ever will think.
If anyone is interested in what I believe in, I believe in Jesus and go to a Baptist church. I think a persons decision to believe in Jesus is the most important decision anyone could ever make. I think it's pretty cool that God loved us so much that he would go through a brutal death on a cross to save us from our sins when he didn't have too.
Had you pegged for another Episcopalian, Grub. That'll teach me the evils of speculating.
Me: Episcopal, sort of conservative. God works in lots more weird ways than we ever figure out, but with Grub I agree the relation with OLJC pretty well defines us and shapes us to want to have eternal life with God-- if we're not used to being loved that much and giving it back we just run from the party and hide, in this world and the next. (I've spent a lot of time hiding. Loving is better.)
Knight Legion Commander of TITO, FC, Del. ret., Father Abbott of HOGTOF