Or any kind of unorthadox, barely heard of religion/philosophy? And what is your stance on an afterlife? If you're an atheist, do you believe in the idea of an afterlife? An afterlife doesn't mean a god, necessarily.
2006-11-02 06:24:53 · 8 answers · asked by Eliza D 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe in God and Jesus, but i only read the books written by John in the New Testament. John was the one closest to Jesus at heart. The early churchs did not have all the writings of the modern new testament in every church. Peter and Paul are too judgemental for me while John leaves judgment to Jesus. I also feel that when Jesus paid the price, everyone received salvation and that everyone goes to heaven. I don't believe hell has any modern day use.
2006-11-02 06:49:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a traditional religion, don't believe in Jesus Christ and when people talk like they know it all it drives me up the wall. "The only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ" isn't exactly appealing.
My afterlife has tinges of Christianity to it, true, but there is no one standing at heaven's door turning away those who didn't believe in Jesus Christ, nor are believers of Jesus Christ turned away. If you sin then you're punished, there is no quick death bed confession to get you into heaven. There's no point in having punishment if people can easily get out of it by apologising, I think. The choices a person makes during their lives are heavily weighed, so I suppose that takes just a little on ancient Egyptian (though they weighed a person's heart against a feather and there's no weighing of body parts in impossibly sounding fashions)
2006-11-02 06:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
non - traditional as I have taken the basic Christian Religion and incorporated non Christian Religions into it along with Native American Spirituality and some Ancient Ways in order to
" customize " everything into my own personal beliefs. works for me but then this wouldn't work for anyone else.
2006-11-02 06:33:26 · answer #3 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Temple of Set
2006-11-02 06:37:59 · answer #4 · answered by The Chaos Within 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He grew to become right into a member of the lutheran church ELCA, the ELCA Lutheran is between the main liberal branches of christianity, alongside with the UMC unite methodist church. i'm a memeber of a lutheran ELCA wich i infrequently attend anymore, i atend different church homes. the lutheran ELCA, alongside with it is ever transforming into older crowd at lots of its church homes has a stance on abortion that maximum do no longer consider, which includes myself.
2016-12-28 11:02:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not unheard of but not traditional
i am spiritualist
we believe in the continued existence of spirit proven through spirit communication
2006-11-02 06:29:01 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pagan leaning toward shamanism.
2006-11-02 06:41:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a:
satanist
nihilist
atheist
chaos mage
who does not believe in:
gods
afterlife
free will
magic
existence
yet:
do rituals
have had an NDE
regularly have OBEs
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I dunno if that all counts as 'nontraditional'. ;)
2006-11-02 06:31:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋