WHO IS YOUR GOD and WHERE IS IT.......

[pudding450]

MacBright, that is what I have always practiced. Treat others as you would like to be treated, with patience, respect and love, and be respectful to our planet because it takes care of us. Respect yourself, do not abuse your body because it has to last for many years.

Willy what do you believe the Higher Power you believe in is like?

Still serching..... Pudding

PS. Willy, who won the Derby?




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pudding

so put on a happy face....

[Goose]

Originally posted by pudding450:

LOL, Neil but one never knows........

Goose, your higher power, do you mean God? and if so why he?
What made you believe??????

Pudding

No I'm not talking about a physical thing or person here. Not a God per say but more of a spirit. It can be anything or anywhere at any time. It can even come through meeting someone special in your life and you are able to dwell on their spirituality which in turn affects your life.

For that matter it could even be the pebble in your shoe if it affects part of your spiritual being. Anything that causes you to adjust your personal environment. It really doesn't matter where we draw it from its just there omnipresent if we decide whether to use it or not.

I'm sorry for using the word "he" in my post if that upset you, but it really doesn't matter because there is no gender attached to a spiritual being as I believe it is more of an idea than anything we know in the physical sense. So it really makes no difference if its a he or she as I don't get caught up in attaching attributes to the idea as it only greys and confuses the issue more.

The way I believe it works is that as we gain knowledge and grow spiritually we go through our lives making impressions good or bad. These then get passed down from generation to generation through our actions as we create an environment around us for our lives. The next generation takes what it believes to be good or bad and uses it as a base for their enviroment and so on and so on.



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"All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[eve1102]

Ok so if you talking spiritual..then what do any of you think of spirit guides.??? sorry puddin..but my beliefs are mine..I beleive in God..God is a Spirit. he has no form..Only Jesus had form and he died for us. God gave us teh bible as a guide to live life as he has set out for us. it is his teachings..through Jesus and the desciples that are our guides to life..i do my best follow them..but for my question...how many beleive in the Spirit Guides...???

[Willy]

Pudding,
Fusaichi-Pegasus won the Kentucky Derby with the 5th fastest running time ever. Should be interesting to see if he will become a Triple Crown contender.

I think there is an element of the spirit in every living thing, be it a bird, a tree, a Scottie Dog, (Devilish one residing there...) or humans.
I think the teachings of Christ are very prophetic but I do not think that ONLY those who follow that faith are "saved". I find it frightening how many people have been killed in "The name of the Lord". (i.e.; The Spanish Inquisition, The Holocaust, and countless other examples throughout history).
Look at the UK whose battles between Catholic and Protestant persist to this day even though they are both Christian religions. Also look at the absurdity of some of these same "Christian" Laws (Gee King Henry VIII....you can't divorce your wives so you better just kill them...)

Have to take issue here, Willy. Henry VIII of England wasn't allowed by the Roman Catholic Church to divorce his first wife so he made up his own church (The Church Of England) with himself as head of it. He then allowed himself to divorce his first wife.

The second one lost her head on trumped up charges of treason. She was allegedly having an affair which was interpreted as treason because it was against the King's interests.

The next one died in childbirth.

The next 2 were executed, though I can't remember why.

The sixth wife was lucky enough to have the old codger die before he got a chance to do away with her.

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The man o' independent mind,
He looks an' laughs at a' that.

[Willy]

LOL!

Yes, Neil...I do recall that Henry VIII started his own church. And your right, the executions were based on adultry or treason as opposed to skirting the divorce law.
Yet still, The Catholic religion believes that you can be forgiven for murder yet you will be excommunicated for divorce. (King Henry VIII was indeed excommunicated and in 1534 made himself "Supreme Ecclesiastical Authority" in England). Using Henry VIII to illustrate this point was not a good example.
(although I do remember when Anne Boleyn was executed the King was hunting near Greenwich. He had the trumpets blow when the Queen was pronounced dead so that he could return from hunting and prepare the marriage ceremony for his next wife, Jane Seymore, within days after Anne's execution.) But you are right, his motives were not to appease the Catholic Church which he broke from.

[pudding450]

Evie (how are you Evie?) I take no offence to what you believe. What do you mean by spirit guides? like angels? Do you feel them or is it just something you believe, and what made you believe? I'm just searching
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Goose, I was wondering,
The way I believe it works is that as we gain knowledge and grow spiritually we go through our lives making impressions good or bad. These then get passed down from generation to generation through our actions as we create an environment around us for our lives. The next generation takes what it believes to be good or bad and uses it as a base for their enviroment and so on and so on.

Goose using the word "HE" did not upset me. I was just curious as to why you chose that word.

You say as we gain knowledge and grow spiritually,
Did you mean as we gain spiritual
knowledge?

How do you (we) grow spiritually? Is that what you see as making a good or bad impression?

through our actions.....As we create an enviroment around us for our lives.

Are you then saying anything that "affects" us is caused by something spiritual?

I know I feel different when I laugh, or cry or see a new baby or if someone gets hurt,I can actually feel the change.
How do you feel when it is spiritual?
What actually made you believe?
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Willy and Neil LOL @ Henry VIII . I think we covered that before Willy, remember......

Willy do you just choose to believe in a higher spirit or did something make you believe?

Still searching...........pudding




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pudding

so put on a happy face....