Originally posted by aardvarkhomeDismissing the whole thing is too easy. Your statement about myths and history being two different things is true, but the distinction must be made more carefully. Where are the real myths coming from in our day? In time, we will in fact find out if I am making the school boy error, or if you are acting out verse 4 of 2 Tim chapter 4
Allegorical foundation myths and history are two different things.
Please try to stop these schoolboy errors.
3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Originally posted by chinking58I detect an interesting interpretation on your part! Am I right?
Dismissing the whole thing is too easy. Your statement about myths and history being two different things is true, but the distinction must be made more carefully. Where are the real myths coming from in our day? In time, we will in fact find out if I am making the school boy error, or if you are acting out verse 4 of 2 Tim chapter 4
3For the time w ...[text shortened]... hing ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Originally posted by chinking58Indeed.
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
"I want this little ego of mine, this precious sphere of consciousness, to last forever. I want to be rewarded for the sacrifices I make, so that they are not really sacrifices. I want those who harm me to be punished. I want to have a purpose given to me, and a path laid out before me, so that I do not have to find a way to imbue my own life with meaning, or deal with the terror of being truly free. I want to be special, I want to be loved, I want to be a child for eternity."
Welcome to your faith.
Originally posted by bbarr
Indeed.
"I want this little ego of mine, this precious sphere of consciousness, to last forever. I want to be rewarded for the sacrifices I make, so that they are not really sacrifices. I want those who harm me to be punished. I want to have a purpose given to me, and a path laid out before me, so that I do not have to find a way to imbue my own life w ...[text shortened]... o be special, I want to be loved, I want to be a child for eternity."
Welcome to your faith.
Whom are you quoting ?
Originally posted by bbarryes if you put it that way the spirit is in limbo untill we die then returns to god for judgement, as the phisical body returns to dust, but do not forget its our mortal life which decides were the consciousness goes.
It is a state of consciousness, as is hell; they are two ways of being in the world.