The meaning of life is to find the most meaning out of it.

All religions are good because they are all keys to finding reality... Philosophy connects religion to science, and science is the fact of reality.

Anybody can be a potential messenger of God ... because God is you. God is everything. God is understanding, love, peace, and harmony. You are the Prophet. All you have to do is focus on the good of humanity rather than death.

I am not afraid of dying... To that, I live.

I personally believe that Jesus was the son of Joseph and Mary. It was a lie, but it was probably one of the best lies of all time - because it connected people to a similar idea: Christianity.

But what happened after that?

The dark ages.

Just believe in what religion you want to believe in. But believe in humanity too. Everybody prays to Jesus for guidance yet they sin themselves. Be your own Jesus. Teach yourself what is right from wrong. That is the only way to grow.

And if you are still Christian, fine - I don't care. Be any religion. Just be tolerant of religious ideas: because that's all they are, ideas.

I'm not the anti-Christ. I don't want to "rule the world", I just want my laws to rule the land. Two totally different ideas that most people cannot understand.

I will quote the Bible for you:

"He who overcomes will be dressed in white,
and I will not take his name from the book of life,
and I will give witness to his name before my Father,
and before his angels."

Revelations 3:5

But who is he? He is you. It can be anyone. They use the "he" context because English does have a proper context for both sexes unless you use (s)he, which was not invented until political correctness was conscious.

To know the meaning of life you should pray for Jesus to send his Holy Spirit to you. Then Jesus could teach you the truth of the meaning of life through his spirit. You believe in a lot of ideas whether you made up a lot of thoughts, ideas or heard them through books or people. You need more understanding into the way God prepared you for life and Lord God will bless you.

"The Meaning of Life" not a bad movie from the Python crew but not as Good as the Life of Brian which nicely parodies the baggage of belief in Messiahs.
Nice quote:
"He is the MESSIAH.... I should know, I have followed a few."

ljc wrote:To know the meaning of life you should pray for Jesus to send his Holy Spirit to you. Then Jesus could teach you the truth of the meaning of life through his spirit. You believe in a lot of ideas whether you made up a lot of thoughts, ideas or heard them through books or people. You need more understanding into the way God prepared you for life and Lord God will bless you.

I see you're the only one in this entire forum that has all the answers. I mean, Mackerni lays all his/her beliefs out there for everyone to see and you respond as if their beliefs aren't worth anything! And to make matters worse, you say they need more understanding.....ad nauseum. Well, whether you like it or not, if a god does exist, it appears IT is All That Is! In other words, the pantheists may have been right all along. Meaning your faith ain't worth squat. Sucks, doesn't it?

When you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and savior with the anointing of the Holy Spirit then all the wisdom and understanding of all the ages will come upon you. The bible will not make any sense to the natural man ,totally illogical in every way, but when Holy Spirit comes upon you all the bible and the truth in the spirit comes alive. If people reject that as no other opinion matter that's their business I'm not closing down the truth because of religious differences. I am not politically minded.

Did you get 'wisdom and understanding of all the ages' in your fundie days, fuzoid?

ljc wrote:When you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and savior with the anointing of the Holy Spirit then all the wisdom and understanding of all the ages will come upon you. The bible will not make any sense to the natural man ,totally illogical in every way, but when Holy Spirit comes upon you all the bible and the truth in the spirit comes alive. If people reject that as no other opinion matter that's their business I'm not closing down the truth because of religious differences. I am not politically minded.

Uh, dude/dudette, I was once born again. And from personal experience, I believe you're full of it. And why do you tell others their faith is worthless if it doesn't follow your beliefs? For example, if I remember correctly, yesterday you accused someone who believes in numerology that their faith was nonsense. While I personally do not believe in numerology, it's not my place to tell others who do that their beliefs are nonsense. The only reason I'm going after you is because I see you posting everywhere proselytizing with prejudice. And as a former Christian fundie, I'm asking you to give it a rest. If you want to share, then do so without attacking other's beliefs regardless what you believe your truth to be. Because your interpretation of truth may not be the same for others. Besides, as previously mentioned, quantum physics claims our reality may be ONE undivided whole. And so far the pantheists seem to be closer to the truth than any other member of the faithful. Believe what you will, but accord the same respect to others beliefs that you expect for yours.

Fool wrote:Did you get 'wisdom and understanding of all the ages' in your fundie days, fuzoid?

Absolutely! I gained the wisdom and understanding that Christianity is not the only path to God. I gained wisdom and understanding that the bible is not the word of God. I gained wisdom and understanding that the Jesus story in the bible strongly parallels that of more ancient mythology. Had I not gone through my fundie stage, I probably would not be where I am today. So I would say that qualifies quite nicely under wisdom and understanding. <grin>

Wait, you asked, of all the ages. Absolutely NOT! And anyone who claims they have are only kidding themselves.

fuzoid wrote:Absolutely! I gained the wisdom and understanding that Christianity is not the only path to God. I gained wisdom and understanding that the bible is not the word of God. I gained wisdom and understanding that the Jesus story in the bible strongly parallels that of more ancient mythology. Had I not gone through my fundie stage, I probably would not be where I am today. So I would say that qualifies quite nicely under wisdom and understanding. <grin>

Nicely put there, if you don't know where their coming from, how do you know where they are going?

fuzoid wrote:Absolutely! I gained the wisdom and understanding that Christianity is not the only path to God. I gained wisdom and understanding that the bible is not the word of God. I gained wisdom and understanding that the Jesus story in the bible strongly parallels that of more ancient mythology. Had I not gone through my fundie stage, I probably would not be where I am today. So I would say that qualifies quite nicely under wisdom and understanding. <grin>

Catnip wrote:Nicely put there, if you don't know where their coming from, how do you know where they are going?

Thanks! And while I do understand where they're coming from, not even they know where they're going.