Didn't God have Oneness "In the Beginning"?

[ButterflyWoman]

To quote a favourite film of mine: It doesn't make sense! That's why you've got to believe it! If it made sense, it wouldn't be a religion!

[Tom]

To quote a favourite film of mine: It doesn't make sense! That's why you've got to believe it! If it made sense, it wouldn't be a religion!

So the difference is that other people's religions can be called cults, but not one's own?

[Timotheus]

[Tom]

To be honest I didn't understand what you were telling me.

I think I get it now.

In many ways it seems like I have to understand Christianity to have a better understanding of most of the people around me. It seems impossible. I thought I had to start with the foundation and move my way up from there. The problem seems to be, like with Buddhism, that things tend to be unsatisfactory. The solution seems to be getting passage into Heaven. Unfortunately there is the part about having to die to get there. Until then ... I seem to still be getting caught up on the reason for being here at all. It seems to be a bad risk. Infants are all but guaranteed entrance into Heaven but that passage is at risk from early childhood on and by the teenage years the risk of "going south" seems to rise dramatically. It isn't just Adam and Eve because we all fall down.

[star]

The difference between being really big and growing even bigger and being "perfect" is really evident to me. Can you imagine talking to a single cell? But the size is more exaggerated. Also, creating is awesome. havn't you ever read literature that was enjoyable, or become engrossed in a TV show or even a movie? Creative creation!!!

[VioletImagery]

It seems to me that Christianity and other organized religions have a lot in common with modern advertising. They tell you that if you use their product/system (only theirs, of course) you'll be happy and your life will be perfect FOREVER and/or if you don't use their product everything will be horrible and ruined forever. Christianity has a great advantage in that the supposed payoff of their product is not in this life, so there is no way to claim false advertising. So you don't get tired of waiting for the promised pay off, they constantly remind you of the promised rewards/consequences. And, of course, it's total blasphemy to suspect that maybe there's something a little fishy with the assumption that you need ANY product to 'fix' you in the first place.

[Jaco]

it's total blasphemy

There's nothing bad about little blasphemy. In fact I rather like it

[CFTraveler]

This thread started out as an interesting discussion about philosophical interpretations of what God is and what all this 'oneness' and spirituality is all about, and I'm sorry it took 'the usual' turn. Oh well, I can always hope.

[Timotheus]

[Timotheus]