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Originally Posted by №1
I'm not looking to convert anyone either...
Check out a ward full of terminally ill children, did they have a choice to go left or right?
Born with genetic defects and incurable illness, these children had a choice of how to come into this world?
These precious children had a choice to suffer on this plane?
I kept getting thrown out of Sunday school because I repeatedly did the ONE unforgivable thing in the eyes of the church.
Asked questions...
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Conversion:
I didn't think you were, No1. My concern was that you might think that I or someone else may be pushing our particular religion on you.
Suffering children:
That's a complicated one, for sure. And there are some good replies in here to chew on. There are a couple of other things to consider as well.
#1 - Much of the suffering that takes place is inflicted by man. "Experts" who deny real medicine like
free Cannabis (and other herbs), for everything from headache to Multiple Schlorosis and Muscular Dystrophy, in favor of
profitable pharmaceuticals (which the Bible refers to as "sorcery", btw). This is an intolerable CRIME against humanity by money-driven tyrrants. Suppression of any/all herbal medicine as "folklore" is in the same category. Anyone can grow herbs. If the general public really knew how to use them medicinally the pharma industry would be out of business and we would all be healthier and wealthier (without greed). But shaman are "witch-doctors" and herbalists are non-FDA-approved nutjobs according to the experts whom our culture subjects its suffering children to.
#2 - There may be a remaining genetic corruption from ancient gene pool pollution. The precursor to the biblical flood was the impact of a group of "the sons of God" mating with "the daughters of men", producing a violent hybrid race called the
Nephilim (or Nephiyl) who apparently threatened the existence of both man and beast. However it actually happened, the essense of the story is that someone
screwed with the original genetic makeup of mankind. I've often wondered if today's genetic defects are remnants of this pollution.
*** There are accounts of The Flood from multiple traditions around the world. Does anyone here know of a "Nephilim" story from non-biblical accounts?
Asking questions:
BRAVO!!! You go right on asking questions. I too was dismissed for questioning and expressing a different opinion on certain doctrines.
Dogma is
"the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from." So... we can submit like sheep and
simply believe everything we're told by the Church, or we can believe what the scriptures actually say:
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7)
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good. (Proverbs 19:8)
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. (1John 2:20)
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him (autos: he; she; him; her; it, the same). (1John 2:27)
Questions are the way to answers that give us something to chew on... but
real teaching comes from within and that's the purpose of the anointing/unction, imo.
Sage, do you have any Buddhist equivalents? Anyone else?