I used to be Christian and apparently some of the tenets have stayed with me. I am Buddhist now but it must be flavored with some residual Christianity. Someone copy and pasted this as an aswer to a question I had and it just grabbed my attention.
THIS IS THE JEWEL at the heart of Christianity. This is it, what it is all about....
Matthew 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
2006-10-30 05:15:12 · 10 answers · asked by a_delphic_oracle 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
SO PLEASE...post a verse or saying or anything that is meaningful to you. Who has a good answer for me?
2006-10-30 05:16:55 · update #1
I couldnt think of just one, there are too many. I love just about ever spiritual phrasing Deepak Chopra has made, especially in the book the seven spiritual laws of parenting, because all of us are children, and parents to one another.
BUt the most that rings out in me has a spiritual message, but seems negative, and it comes from no one who claims to be a philsopher, but a daughter of life.
My mom always said Misty: Karma is a *****, and that's all you need to know. That about sums up for me. My mom always had a way with expressing herself with simplicity, wish I did too.
I wish you well.
2006-10-30 05:41:08 · answer #1 · answered by fryedaddy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi a_delphic: This is one verse among many. The jewel verse, to me, is:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. – Matthew 22:37-40
I also like this quote:
“The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thus, one side of this is to not take offense at stupid insults. Turn the cheek and heep coals on the other. That does work BTW. However, if you might hurt my family, then I will react to protect them to the best of my ability.
Now, if you are buddhist, Christian, whatever, then there is yin and jang in life. for example, [if I lose my life, I gain my life, if I gain my life I lose my life. If I am weak, I am strong, if I am strong, I am weak. BTW these are not bad statements.]
There are generally, at least, 2 sides to everything. Specific and conceptual. For a coin, heads and tails. Life is far from being one sided. Men are men. Women are women. Kids are kids. One should always look at the other side first, and think thru both sides, like a jury, kind of.
So what am I trying to say? God is not one-sided. He is love and he is justice. He forgives as appropriate, and he judges, as needed. Why? He created us!
Hope this helps!
2006-10-30 06:53:52 · answer #2 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
29"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead." (Acts 17)
2006-10-30 05:23:10 · answer #3 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stranger In a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
"I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe."
-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In a Strange Land
2006-10-30 05:44:29 · answer #4 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Corinthians 13
Genesis 1
Matthew 5:1-12
John 1
2006-10-30 05:20:03 · answer #5 · answered by eehco 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only the moral precepts of Christ interest me-the sermon on the mount, the good Samaritan etc. His teachings lead me to believe that he was aware of karma. Other than that I don't have any interest in scripture.
2006-10-30 05:19:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Luke 15, especially the parable of the Prodigal Son, in particular the words, "While he was yet at a distance..."
2006-10-30 05:18:36 · answer #7 · answered by donniederfrank 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I will give you my quote of the week since that dose the job well
"He [Hillel] used to say, if I am not for me who is for me, if I am for myself what am I, and if not now when."
Pirkei Avos (ethics of the fathers) 1:14
2006-10-30 05:20:01 · answer #8 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
2006-10-30 05:20:21 · answer #9 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Say: we believe in God and in what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il: Isaac, Jacob and The Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another, among them, and to God do we bow our will (in Islam)." (Qur'an, Al-Imran 3:84)
2006-10-30 05:18:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋