religious decisions(JAN 21)

so i have decided.. after days of intense brain hurting thought, what i believe.

at least i have decided for now =]

god is bigger than u sall, he knows past present future.

he gives us free will, but already knows what we will choose- we can change it but he already knows if we will or not.

jesus was an amazing man- a great teacher and leader. he was the son of god. i am the daughter of god. we are all children of god. jesus "born of the flesh" and allowed god to work through him and do marvelous and miraculous things.

i believe the "spirit" is a force. (yes emerson, i got this from you) god can affect our lifes when he chooses to step in, otherwise, he created us with the potential to do amazing things.

i believe in meditation. god gave us minds and the world in which we live. he gave us thought and the power to axcess all our thoughts and apply them to our lives. i think if we mindlessly believe something we are not using all that god has given us.

i believe god created all things. evolution happens overtime because god wants it to.

i believe in striving to reach a greater potential always. if not how is god happy with us?

tao (through stillness and passiveness comes the natural intution to know when and when not to act.) and zen (mindfull acceptence of the present moment, spontaneous action, and letting go of self concious, judgemental thinking) are amazing, i think those two things can help all people.

god gave us the authority to interpret the bible.

i do not believe in the trinity. i believe in god, and the force of god.

virgin in those days had many meanings- one of them meaning to become pregnant after haveing sex once.

i donot believe that you can say a prayer and be saved with out action to back it up. this means action is required to "get to heaven"transcendentalism- the only reality is that of teh mind. "It is not to be denied that there must be some wide difference between my faith and other faith; and mine is a certain brief experience, which surprised me in the highway or in the market, in some place, at some time, — whether in the body or out of the body, God knoweth, — and made me aware that I had played the fool with fools all this time, but that law existed for me and for all; that to me belonged trust, a child's trust and obedience, and the worship of ideas, and I should never be fool more. Well, in the space of an hour, probably, I was let down from this height; I was at my old tricks, the selfish member of a selfish society. My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeing an Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate."

look that up too- its good but you need patience to try and understand (like most things)

yeah..