"While for some the faith is the base to live a total life, for others it represents part of a chain that ties to us to live a life on fault."
2006-11-30 20:21:48 · 8 answers · asked by Byzantino 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My point of View!!!!
Each morning upon rising, and each evening before sleeping, give thanks for the life within you and for all life, for the good things the Creator has given you and for the opportunity to grow a little more each day. Consider your thoughts and actions of the past day and seek for the courage and strength to be a better person. Seek for the things that will benefit others (everyone).
2. Respect. Respect means "To feel or show honor or esteem for someone or something; to consider the well being of, or to treat someone or something with deference or courtesy". Showing respect is a basic law of life.
3. Once a council has decided something in unity, respect demands that no one speak secretly against what has been decided. If the council has made an error, that error will become apparent to everyone in its own time.
4. Be truthful at all times, and under all conditions.
5. Always treat your guests with honor and consideration. Give of your best food, your best blankets, the best part of your house, and your best service to your guests.
6. The hurt of one is the hurt of all; the honor of one is the honor of all.
7. Receive strangers and outsiders with a loving heart and as members of the human family.
8. All the races and tribes in the world are like the different colored flowers of one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Creator they must all be respected.
9. To serve others, to be of some use to family, community, nation, and the world is one of the main purposes for which human beings have been created. Do not fill yourself with your own affairs and forget you’re most important talks. True happiness comes only to those who dedicate their lives to the service of others.
10. Observe moderation and balance in all things.
11. Know those things that lead to your well-being, and those things that lead to your destruction.
12. Listen to and follow the guidance given to your heart. Expect guidance to come in many forms; in prayer, in dreams, in times of quiet solitude, and in the words and deeds of wise Elders and friends.
Hokahe
2006-11-30 20:26:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple ways you can look at the latter part of the quote, but i find one common response to part one....
Faith for many people pushes them to be something that they arent. Whether or not this is good depends on intent i suppose, but for many people there is a belief that their faith has lead them to a greater satisfaction and purpose in life than they would have had otherwise.
for the potentially more divisive part of the quote i have two answers. First i think faith ulitimatly forces people to often live lives of guilt because they will never meet the standards of their faith. Though this is more common in western religion, where God at times makes requests we cant reach it is not unique to western religion. The other answer i think is the condemnation factor, that any conversion religion seems to have. If we believe, and im not saying everyone does, that faith should compell us to create a better world for all people, many believers often take this to mean a better world for the people of my faith. This would seem to be faulty faith in praxis by my humble estimation.
2006-12-01 04:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by blindog23 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
just live one day at a time without hurting and using anybody on the way of what you want to be.
2006-12-01 04:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am from the cause and effect school of thought. And everything is built on what came before.
2006-12-01 04:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Generalized statement by someone who probably writes alot of books, makes alot of money but very well may burn in hell.
Thats my feelings about the quote.
David
2006-12-01 04:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is based on belief and experience.
If my wife loves me, and we prefer a sex act that is banned in the bible, we will do it.
Our relationship is ours, not yours to judge.
Do you want to know?
2006-12-01 04:28:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I do not get it I have to say not if you believe in God you should wont to serve him and do God. if you do evil it is for Satan
2006-12-01 04:25:04 · answer #7 · answered by Mim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Toooo deeep mannnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-01 04:49:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋