 Appreciate the insight skept
I appreciate that response. I guess I just am trying to figure where to begin. I have had these same feelings and beliefs inside myself for years. I just was afraid to admit them if they in any way went against christian teaching.
I suppose logic is a good way to start..... I have already used that somewhat in the fact that I am questioning christianity. I do know that I don't go to church and do not desire to go because I have never been comfortable in a church. The few times I have gone, I felt as if they wanted me to try to be something I am not. I can't do that. I am pretty much face value and I am not going to pretend to be something I am not in any aspect of life.
I will say that I don't have to see something concrete in order to have beliefs about it or believe it exists.
I also want to correct somethng I said earlier in another post. I do not believe that everyone who has misfortunes in life are "paying" for something wrong. I also see that people who are not very nice sometimes have a life that is filled with privilege and happiness. Others, as myself, have always been a good loving caring person, and I have been dealt alot of crap. (not all caused by my own choices). I just believe that somehow we will pay if we are evil creatures that go through life intentionally hurting others.
Well, I will read some more here at the site. Not to learn anything but to open my mind to possibilities. Afterall, I have to learn on my own in my spiritual quest.
Religion does not offend me, lack of it does not offend me. I believe in live and let live and be and let be. If you believe in one almighty supreme being, I don't care.... as long as it is not pushed on me and I am not told that I deserve to burn in a lake of fire for eternity.
Debra |