What are your beliefs?

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What are your beliefs?
Topic Started: May 4 2009, 05:06 AM (41 Views)
Algol	May 4 2009, 05:06 AM Post #1
Private Senior First Class Posts: 84 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 3, 2009 Political Alignment: Conservative/Libertarian Xbox Live Gamertag: GRX Dragon PSN Alias: GRX3000	Define your beliefs!



Bolshevik Hunter	May 5 2009, 01:42 AM Post #2
Novice Posts: 9 Group: Soldiers Member #2 Joined: May 3, 2009	I grew up basically a Christian Protestant. Though I would not consider myself a Christian Protestant today, But still I would defend and fight for them because I believe that Christianity is a positive force in The World, just as it has been for centuries here and in Europe. I might contradict myself later on with certain opinions on the story of Christianity, but nevertheless, it's been more positive than negative. There enemies are usually my enemies. My relationship and position on God is more of a personal one, just as well as a cosmic one. I believe there is more to the cosmos than The Church has to offer me personally. I also believe that Man has no idea of exactly what God wants and is. I have personally found myself the most closest to God when I am in Nature. The wilderness is my Temple just as the beach or desert is. I have felt God in all of these places, yet I have felt God and witnessed his power in Society just as well. You might want to call me a little bit of an Emersonist. Whatever the question, God exists, and I have felt him by my side many times throughout my life. I wish I had all the answers, but all I have is my personal experiences while on this Earth. So there you have it. ~BH
	True Conservative Republic


Algol	May 5 2009, 03:02 AM Post #3
Private Senior First Class Posts: 84 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 3, 2009 Political Alignment: Conservative/Libertarian Xbox Live Gamertag: GRX Dragon PSN Alias: GRX3000	Quite an interesting way of putting that, BH. For myself, I grew up without any organized influence. Well, not entirely. I grew up both inside and outside religion. For most of my life, I was raised on Christian principle moreso than the belief of Christ itself. Throughout my life, I had held many beliefs, but when I was approximately 23~ I had by then refined what I accepted and what I didn't accept by thorough means of elimination by using what the Bible said in its Greek/Hebraic iterations, as well what the church fathers in the early Church themselves believed, and as well history itself. When people ask why I cannot accept something or refuse to deny, it is not so much that I'm closed-minded, but that I have in fact gone through the proper channels of challenging my own beliefs and that which I don't believe. I do accept and respect the ability to disagree with another, just as I go so far as to expect someone to disagree with what I believe. Nobody is going to believe something they think is false, this is just a fact that history has proven time and time again. And so long as you can't convince someone their beliefs are wrong, then that's that. That does not mean I respect what you believe, however. In fact, I don't respect what anyone believes, per-se; just that there's the ability to believe different. I do accept that Yahweh is indeed the Creator of the Universe, that Mary gave birth to the 'Son of God' (Incarnation of Yahweh) as a virgin both accordingly and fulfillingly of prophecy. It was the Christ, Son of Yahweh, that fulfilled prophecy, that brought back to us a permanent sacrifice by his own perfection to recreate for us a direct relationship with the Father. I think it certainly is possible for all of mankind to enter heaven, for our Father is indeed a merciful being and would choose not to send anyone to hell. But at the same time, he will not prevent those from falling into the fire after judgment is come. He does not lie, and he did promise us salvation, just as easily he promised us persecution. We can choose between eternal salvation and temporarily persecution, or we can choose temporarily salvation with eternal death. I could on and on, but I think that is enough for now. :)



Bolshevik Hunter	May 6 2009, 08:09 PM Post #4
Novice Posts: 9 Group: Soldiers Member #2 Joined: May 3, 2009	That is an interesting position. No doubt, there has to be accountability on this Earth. Surely there are two paths at the end for good and evil. ~BH
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Seravee	Jul 6 2009, 04:01 AM Post #5
Novice Posts: 8 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: Jul 6, 2009 Political Alignment: Conservative Xbox Live Gamertag: Master117117 PSN Alias: God Emperor	I believe in God. I know that he exist and will always be there for me. I am not a fanatical person thought there are some things that science an explain and somethings it cannot. I am not a constant church goer. I believe that matters like abortion and gay rights should be left up to a persons beliefs not the state. That and God made the big bang happen. :P I think that is about all if you want to know more just ask.
	"Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking." -- George W. Bush


CWolf	Jul 6 2009, 11:08 AM Post #6
Novice Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: Jul 6, 2009	I was raised as a fundamentalist baptist. Women can't wear pants, fire and brimstone, Europian anti-Christ and a Rapture, the whole nine yards. I was never a particuarly big fan of either hell or the Rapture, but I used to accept it, since I assumed those older than me knew what they were talking about. Eventually it was the existence of miracles that moved me off of Christianity altogether. I could never justify God healing one of our church member's herpes and then letting small children starve to death in the 3rd world. For God to operate like that was unthinkable to me. I decided God was either uncaring or not real. It didn't matter much to me either way. I progressed down this road from about 11/12-18 or so. Around then I was getting into a fight about something with someone(what exactly, I no longer recall), and so I decided to go fetch some verses out of my old Bible. I ended up reading the Synoptic gospels in whole that day and was rather shocked as to their contents. Jesus was actually logical, selfless and kind. Almost a polar opposite of what I'd always been taught(mind you they'd say 'kind' while describing rather nasty things). Then I read Paul's stuff and was even more floored. Nearly every problem I had ever had with the religion simply wasn't to be found anywhere at all. There was no hell, there was no rapture, both Paul and Jesus preached women's equality. I honestly had no idea what to think. Here I was reading a book written by men 2,000 years ago, who were signifigantly more rational and well mannered than those I grew up around. Anyway, I'm bored with writing my religious biography, so I imagine anyone reading itis also quite bored(actually probably quit a while ago ^_-). So I'll stop here. Basically, I have a serious problem with Christianity and Christians. Because as far as I'm concerned, a majority ignore Jesus and worship a Jesus Christ composite figure, which barely even resembles the Jesus I see. The words of Jesus may never change, but Christianity certainly has. And I don't like where it's gone.



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