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Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Reincarnation. There are those who believe in it based on faith alone, for no one can determine if they have been here before, right? Not faith alone, but also intuition and spiritual awareness. This increases and expands as one grows spiritually, which in turn continues over many lifetimes. (There are many other avenues that can demonstrate re

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Reincarnation. There are those who believe in it based on faith alone, for no one can determine if they have been here before, right? Not faith alone, but also intuition and spiritual awareness. This increases and expands as one grows spiritually, which in turn continues over many lifetimes. (There are many other avenues that can demonstrate re

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Jesus was a mortal when He told us that He is the Alfa and the Omega; that except through Him we will not see heaven. When Christ said these words, he was a human being, the Son of God, not God Himself Whenever Jesus said, “I Am”, (“I Am the True Vine”, “I Am the Gate”, “I Am the resurrection and the life”, “I Am the way, the truth, and the life”

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life, because Christ is God, incidentally Xythe. There’s only one God (Jesus Christ), and all religions are in touch with exactly the same God, only from a different perspective and cultural context, whether they recognise Him as Jesus or not. If we see contradictions in this, then we’re looking at it through a narrow scope, and we can’t see the bigger picture.

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Our world's religious revelations are indeed woven together, like jigsaw pieces, which together can disclose the full picture of Ultimate Reality. Andy, can you please give me an example of this? </tab

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Jen, All religions are hardly woven together, nor to they all share a common thread, and all religions do not lead to one God (the God of Abraham). Our world's religious revelations are indeed woven together, like jigsaw pieces, which together can disclose the full picture of Ultimate Reality.

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Not a problem Andy. Do you have any thoughts on the House of Souls, also known as the Guf? I believe that all new souls are created at the outset in the Spirit World, (the Heavenly world), and are subsequently born into a physical body on earth at a later time when the soul needs to expand its experience and knowledge. But I don’t believe that a

Reply to The Hall of Souls: Fact or Legend? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Good Lord this is a different view! Put like this he sounds dreadful and cruel, someone to be feared. What an eye opener. Yes, I think that deep down we all know God is not dreadful and cruel, and we can afford some healthy breathing space from extreme Scriptural fundamentalism. That goes for all religions,

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I beleive I have made it quite clear, that the Hall of Souls is NOT in biblical scripture. Why continue to rant on this? Sorry Xythe, just seen your comment. I should have posted that last one on another article,

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The fact that you would swallow anything the Bible says about God, despite the fact that your own moral compass leads you to believe that such behavior is wrong, is telling Hear, hear. I can’t resist sharing the views of one particular bloke, who lost faith in fundamentalist Christianity when he began to see things more clearly. Even though he tu

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I recently heard of a Scienctist who was in the field of Genetics. He was an atheist until he went through his residency in a hospital. There he encountered many who were dying. He was perplexed as he saw the joy in those that were Christians regardless of their trials. He saw a difference in those that were believers and those not. Then one day when an 80 year old woman q

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I do not believe in reincarnation, nothing to do with my opinion, but because scripture makes it clear that it's not to be so....... that can't be it. KFC, some parts of the Bible support reincarnation. For example, Elijah's life is documented in the OT, (first couple of chapters of II Kings), but in the New Testament, Jewish priests were sent t

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If all the souls of angels and men were created at the same time, and the angels were present before men are born into the flesh, where are the souls of men being held until they are born? I believe that new souls are being created all the time. Old souls are the ones that have been around for ages, and have incarnated on earth many times. These

Reply to Religion and Hiv ... the Elderly in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Religion and HIV AIDS comes as a stern teacher. It rather walks around the classroom as an old schoolmaster might, and raps you smartly on the knuckles saying, "Wake up!" Suffering serves a noble purpose.

Reply to Have you had any Supernatural experiences? in Religion JoeUser Forums

If you have not tried it DO NOT KNOCK IT, You know, I was about to write an article condemning cannibals, but you're right. I should chop up a few folk and make a nice stew first before I make up my mind. There may be some

Reply to Have you had any Supernatural experiences? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Have you had any supernatural experiences? I’ve seen my spirit guide. One night, when I was lying awake in my bed, I suddenly felt a great sense of weightlessness and lightness. I began to look around my room, viewing it as if I was sitting upright in my bed. Yet bizarrely, I saw that my head was still on the pillow. I couldn’t lift my head, and

Reply to What is Truth? in Religion JoeUser Forums

If we know that it is wrong, we shouldn't do it again. What puzzles me is why anyone would WANT to do it again Gid, St. Paul says, "What I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do. ... For in my inner being I delight in God's law, but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a

Reply to Everything Has Already Happened in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thanks Jennifer, that’s very kind of you. I believe that the degree to which it strikes a chord is an indication of how ready we are to hear it. While guided by the Holy Spirit - the Comforter, who can act as our inner-compass - it’s possible to discern what is false - or at least misguided - and what is aligned with Truth, regarding higher truths of reality, if we search our hearts deeply enough. I believe that the reason why some people might come to different conclusions to others i

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Everything has already happened ... Time has already happened and it's already OVER. From the creation of the Universe to it's end of existence- it has already happened This is consonant with scientific discoveries. Einstein said, “The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, however persistent.” This means that fro

Reply to WAKE UP. You're Dreaming. -God in Religion JoeUser Forums

we figure out that "Life" was really just a "test" or challenge of sorts for our soul's advancement toward Perfection (Or, God). That’s a fantastic summary of life’s purpose, in my opinion. I completely agree with that, brHat. <TD class="mb-Bo

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”Wake up. You’re dreaming” - God That’s interesting, Gen 2.21 says, “So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep”, but there’s no reference to him waking up. I'm laughing to myself because I thought ab

Reply to How Much Should we Give? in Religion JoeUser Forums

That's why walking in the spirit is so important. So I like to say I run both physically, participating in road races and just for overall fitness, and I run the race spiritually as well; the race Christ has put in front of me. To do both, we need to start unloading stuff, getting things off our back to make it easier to run. <BR

Reply to How Much Should we Give? in Religion JoeUser Forums

just say...we can't outgive God. too right KFC. God is in possession of unlimited resource and power, and God can do anything. We are heirs to such wealth. Why, then, doesn’t God release all His power and resource all at once, and make us all wealthy and prosperous by worldly standards? Whilst we’re on earth, God obviously has a differ

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A few of years ago, I was in financial difficultly. So I decided to put into practice a divine law that I was confident existed. I said a prayer to Jesus, and set up a monthly standing order, sending 10% of my income to worthy charities. Within a couple of months, extra money started coming in. I got an unexpected pay rise at work, and also, for no apparent reason, out of goodwill my mother decided to cancel one of my debts, which I had been paying off to her by monthly instalments. (Sh