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Myown Faith Topic
Hi Myown. (I hope I'm in the right place : ) It's kind of changed over here since I was last here.
I don't know that I have arrived at a choice, really. I guess it sounds like I'm an atheist, but I've never thought of myself as one or never claimed to be one. While I have arrived at certain beliefs, I really don't know how I arrived at them. They are not from my upbrining. My parents, while not "religious", per se, did go to church, they took us -- that's just we all did back then, me, my sister; then I got my son into Sunday School when he was old enough to go, we went to church (not every Sunday, but most Sundays). He didn't grow up to be some fanatical religious person (far from it) nor is his wife very religious, but they do have a faith, and I bet they'll have their little girl and little boy in Sunday School one day, and church too. I know he will. I'm glad he will because I do think it serves a wonderful purpose, and I think he thinks so, too - even though none of us are close to being "real religious".
I don't know that I have arrived at a choice, really. I guess it sounds like I'm an atheist, but I've never thought of myself as one or never claimed to be one. While I have arrived at certain beliefs, I really don't know how I arrived at them. They are not from my upbrining. My parents, while not "religious", per se, did go to church, they took us -- that's just we all did back then, me, my sister; then I got my son into Sunday School when he was old enough to go, we went to church (not every Sunday, but most Sundays). He didn't grow up to be some fanatical religious person (far from it) nor is his wife very religious, but they do have a faith, and I bet they'll have their little girl and little boy in Sunday School one day, and church too. I know he will. I'm glad he will because I do think it serves a wonderful purpose, and I think he thinks so, too - even though none of us are close to being "real religious".
Hallelujah!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!! AMEN!!!
YEA!!! THIS IS YEARS IN COMMING!!!
THANK GOD FOR A FORUM HERE AT MH THAT WE CAN FREELY EXPRESS OUR BELIEFS AND WHATEVER...YOU KNOW JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER!!!
so let me get this straight... its ok to talk about whatever we please here in this forum???
if so, praise God!!!
YEA!!! THIS IS YEARS IN COMMING!!!
THANK GOD FOR A FORUM HERE AT MH THAT WE CAN FREELY EXPRESS OUR BELIEFS AND WHATEVER...YOU KNOW JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER!!!
so let me get this straight... its ok to talk about whatever we please here in this forum???
if so, praise God!!!
chcme,,,I posted to you in the thread below this,,have a good day,,,,hope all is well.
LvdbyGod,,,Glad to see ya in here...maybe we'll have to get a prayer request thread started soon. Get some of the others over here too. Many of us here on forum, its seems,,,and ya know nothing is by accident with God,,we were all meant to find each other to strengthen one another and pray one another through for OUR MIRACLES!
So maybe a prayer request thread would help also. For personal prayer requests they would just have to type 'unspoken prayer request.' God knows their need,we don't necessarily need to know if its too personal, as you know.
have a great day!
LvdbyGod,,,Glad to see ya in here...maybe we'll have to get a prayer request thread started soon. Get some of the others over here too. Many of us here on forum, its seems,,,and ya know nothing is by accident with God,,we were all meant to find each other to strengthen one another and pray one another through for OUR MIRACLES!
So maybe a prayer request thread would help also. For personal prayer requests they would just have to type 'unspoken prayer request.' God knows their need,we don't necessarily need to know if its too personal, as you know.
have a great day!
I'm always worried about people feeling like Christianity is being forced on them at mh...a "hepc site" but, if ALL faiths and non faiths and ALL opinions are welcome in this area then that's great... no one will feel they have to agree to another persons beliefs... they can all feel free to have thier own ideas and state them freely without being harrased... and as long as no one religion or set of ideas are comming off like they're representing the WHOLE group here.
i guess it always comes down to respect and thoughtfulness...
here's to hopeing for that!!!!
sandi
i guess it always comes down to respect and thoughtfulness...
here's to hopeing for that!!!!
sandi
Read some books by Bart Ehrman or any of the other non idiot christian misquting foolish historians and you will find that what you belive is not even close to what took place before 350 ad or so. And you christian fools today are so off key I belive your insane if just not right out stupid.
If the earth throws off humans it will be directly because of religious fools. As the rest of humanity evolves I sure hope you religious nuts fade away as did the Neanderthals.
May Bush rot in your hell with the rest of the religious nuts.
MAY THE KINGDOM OF MARS BLESS YOU SINNER.
HAIL TO THE RED PLANET FOR IT IS MUCH MORE REAL THEN YOUR WARPED SENSE OF HISTORY.
If the earth throws off humans it will be directly because of religious fools. As the rest of humanity evolves I sure hope you religious nuts fade away as did the Neanderthals.
May Bush rot in your hell with the rest of the religious nuts.
MAY THE KINGDOM OF MARS BLESS YOU SINNER.
HAIL TO THE RED PLANET FOR IT IS MUCH MORE REAL THEN YOUR WARPED SENSE OF HISTORY.
"I'm always worried about people feeling like Christianity is being forced on them at mh..."
I may be wrong, but in none of my posts do I recall chastizing anyone for their disbelif nor attempting to change their belief. I try to simply speak my belief and express my faith since it has proven instrumental in my recovery and assisting me to cope with my infection along with the frustration/disappointment that tx failed me.
Maybe my expression of my faith can help another who is struggling and if that is so then I figure I am supporting them, which I think is a large part of what these forums are supposed to be about.
When I see others raising their objections and/or trying to make it sound as though I'm trying to convert them I simply tell myself that perhaps it's simply the Spirit convicting upon them to make them aware that they do know what is right but refusing to accept it.
There are times when I wonder if the objections are not initiated by the people themselves, but instrumented by the one who wants to keep all in the dark and shadow of untruths.
This is way the verses I continually stand upon since my recovery an later diagnosis with this insidious disease are Lamentations 3:19-26 (AMP):
"[O Lord] remember [earnestly] my affliction and my misery, my wandering and my outcast state, the wormwood and the gall. My soul has them continually in remembrance and is bowed down within me. But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation: It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. The Lord is my portion or share, says my living being (my inner self); therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him. The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly for Him, to those who seek Him [inquire of and for Him and require Him by right of necessity and on the authority of God's word]. It is good that one should hope in and wait quietly for the salvation (the safety and ease) of the Lord."
I may be wrong, but in none of my posts do I recall chastizing anyone for their disbelif nor attempting to change their belief. I try to simply speak my belief and express my faith since it has proven instrumental in my recovery and assisting me to cope with my infection along with the frustration/disappointment that tx failed me.
Maybe my expression of my faith can help another who is struggling and if that is so then I figure I am supporting them, which I think is a large part of what these forums are supposed to be about.
When I see others raising their objections and/or trying to make it sound as though I'm trying to convert them I simply tell myself that perhaps it's simply the Spirit convicting upon them to make them aware that they do know what is right but refusing to accept it.
There are times when I wonder if the objections are not initiated by the people themselves, but instrumented by the one who wants to keep all in the dark and shadow of untruths.
This is way the verses I continually stand upon since my recovery an later diagnosis with this insidious disease are Lamentations 3:19-26 (AMP):
"[O Lord] remember [earnestly] my affliction and my misery, my wandering and my outcast state, the wormwood and the gall. My soul has them continually in remembrance and is bowed down within me. But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation: It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. The Lord is my portion or share, says my living being (my inner self); therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him. The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly for Him, to those who seek Him [inquire of and for Him and require Him by right of necessity and on the authority of God's word]. It is good that one should hope in and wait quietly for the salvation (the safety and ease) of the Lord."
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