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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]DL-44 said:[/b] If there is a god, that still leaves the door wide open - do you ahve any idea how many gods we've created? =) ... How many different paths to salvation are there according to the different religions? I'd sure hate to die having pissed off Odin, or having failed to follow the proper laws of islam, or not having sacrificed the proper type of animal at the proper time, and so on...That aside, and giving, for a moment, the christian view the benefit of the doubt, I still find it extremely hard to beleive that 'god' would accept people into his arms who followed his rules just to cover their ass...I'd like to think he wouldn't let people off on a technicality. [/quote] I've been avoiding using biblical quotes, but I do remember Christ at one point saying "In my Father's house, there are many rooms." He also said he was the one way to the Father - I interpret this to mean that he provides us with a direct conduit to God. It's like hooking your workstation directly to the T3 line rather than going through the switch, hub, router and server. That said, what's not to say that some of those "many rooms" aren't set aside for others? Some people are perfectly fine holding their god or gods at an arm's length, or interacting with them on a physical basis in the form of trees or animals. I certainly don't see the Divine setting up a lean-to in the middle of nowhere; more like a huge stretch of seafront property, with rock cliffs and caves (props to Neil Gaiman for the imagery there), rolling green fields and a lush forest or two, and a big city with a massive keep in the middle. "A mighty fortress is our God" and all that, considering there's been open rebellion in Heaven before. I'm soapboxing and I apologize. But what I'm driving at is that there may well be more than one manifestation of Paradise, just as there is more than one manifestation of God - Jesus Christ is Allah is YHWH is... Well, I could go on, but I think you get the idea. ~_^ It's all from one source, though we narrow-visioned mortals shoehorn the Divine into our perceptions in whatever way works best for us. I don't think it's so much that "we create God in our own image"; rather, we slap a face we can relate to on God so there's some familiarity... it makes things easier for those of us without cosmic-level perceptions and powers. But as I've said, Jesus Christ is the only one I know of in the mainstream who invites us to remove the mask from God and see the Divine for what it really is. And to do that we can't look to Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson or James Dobson or Donald Wildmon... we need to look past the Religious Reich... deep within ourselves are the answers we seek, gifted to us from the Divine since birth and there for our discovery, be it through religion or meditation or philosophy or science. Only once we've chosen a path and followed it into ourselves and overcome our fears and doubts do we realize that each of us, every one, is just a peice of the Divine, and fully entitled to be truly something great. Again, JMO. ~~~ Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein [img]http://www.danasoft.com/sig/AsylumScrawls.jpg[/img] Loading...
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