there are way to many of us fighting each other and insulting one another in here. so i ask shouldn't we start trying to love one another and learning from each other so we can begin to reach some kind of enlightenment?
2006-07-31 18:12:32 · 20 answers · asked by bgdadyp 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i have met some really amazing and smart people in here some of which have made me stop and think. we should all be as lucky.
2006-07-31 18:13:43 · update #1
You are wise,
I stop to ask where is the love too. I would like nothing more than all people and religions to get along.
I have no problem with other religions and everyone believing differently
In fact, me and my BF have different religions. and I just told my BF tonight that I would go to Church with him if he asked me too because I love him that much and I have that much respect for him and his religion
I wont try to convert him and he wont try to convert me. He respects my religion and I respect his and we both want to learn more about one anothers religions. :)
BTW I am Pagan, he is Luthrian.
If only the world thought that way..... :(
2006-07-31 18:18:53 · answer #1 · answered by Branwen 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most people alive today won't reach enlightenment. There's something you have to be born with in order to even care, much less do what it takes to reach it.
People born with that "something" aren't the same people who fight each other and insult one another. You just have to accept that people are the way they are and seek out the ones who aren't into BS.
2006-08-01 01:19:05 · answer #2 · answered by Baxter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a fruit of the holy spirit.
2Timothy2:24 But a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, keeping himself restrained under evil, instructing with mildness those not favorable disposed, as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth, and they may come back to their proper senses out from the snare of the Devil, seeing that they have been caught alive for the will of that one.
1Corinthians 13:1-8...Love..is long-suffering and kind,..not jealous, not brag..not get puffed up, ..not behave indecently, does not look for its own interest, does not become provoked,.. not keep account of the injury,..not rejoice over unrighteousness, ..rejoices with truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love NEVER fails.
You are right on.
2006-08-01 01:43:56 · answer #3 · answered by tina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but in the bible it say the love of the greater number will cool Matt 24:12 we are living in critical times hard to deal with. 2 TIm 3:1.
2006-08-01 01:17:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is just the human condition of suffering and the ignorance of it. Wanting to please a God so that you may receive a reward or stave of punishment, this is unproductive to mental and spiritual growth. Take responsibility for you own actions, replace faith with wisdom and you will find life to become easier. Wisdom is the understanding of the true nature of things. A lot of people can be intelligent, wisdom comes from experience, experience for them selves. Ignorance's causes suffering, wisdom on how to do things for you self, find the cause of problems as they are, not how you perceive them. This is the true path to enlightenment.
2006-08-01 01:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately for Christians it's about not making judgements (and I find myself falling prey to that concept).
Love is a judgemental concept that spawns Hate an anti-concept.
By not being judgemental neither love nor hate comes forth.
This was the original sin. I see myself and I am naked. Aughhh!
God made man naked, supposedly. Man viewed this as wrong. Man, said God was wrong. Man knew better than God. Man knew naked was wrong. God didn't know that! Man had to teach God that being naked was wrong. And as a result, God threw man and woman out of Eden.
This was were the problems started. I KNOW better than THEE.
I know RIGHT from WRONG, GOOD from EVIL.
Jesus said to get past this, you had to be like little children. Until mommy and daddy spank you and say DON'T, you have no concept of right and wrong as a little child. You just are!
2006-08-01 01:27:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, but unfortunately I'm afraid it's not in extremist human nature to love someone that is too different than yourself. Many have, and they are the enlightened ones, but more don't.
2006-08-01 01:17:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well said
Love conquers all.
Truth comes first !!!!!!!!
Jesus preached TRUTH before love.
You can hear TRUTH without love.
You can't have LOVE without TRUTH.
Sometimes Truth hurts, for a reason. Love doesn't convict anyone. Truth convicts with the Holy Spirit.
That is exactly why Jesus preached truth before love.
2006-08-01 01:21:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion breads hate.
Tammi Dee
2006-08-01 01:17:57 · answer #9 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen! Preach it,brotha.
((Wanna Hugggg)))
btoo
2006-08-01 01:17:20 · answer #10 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋