Further explation of my beliefs (for those who are interested).?

Question

I have some of the beliefs of each of these, and not all of any one of them. Explanation:

Christianity: I believe Christ is the redeemer of the human race. However, I don't believe the Bible, as we know it, is inerrant. I believe a lot of it, but my interpretation is not always the typical fundamentalist view.

Buddhist: I believe in reincarnation and possible Nirvana. Meditation is extremely helpful in daily life.

Wiccan: I believe in a female Holy Spirit, as the Hebrew word for the Holy Spirit is feminine form of the word. i also believe that we should honor God's creation. However, I don't do any kind of spells or anything of that nature.

I posted this because people were asking how I combined those beliefs in answer to another question. To the one who gave me the links, thank you very much. I will check them out. Sorry I forgot to get your name before I went to this screen.

OK, I'm going yo answer the questions put to me. I hope they get read.

Baxtersmom--Yes, temporary (before being reincarnated), and maybe permanently at the time of God's choosing.

Yogi--I try to empty my mind and let the Holy Spirit direct my thoughts. I pray separately, and yes, I do sometimes use incense as I meditate.

Lucid--Leading of the Holy Spirit and commone sense. For example: Paul's epistles are clearly historical (meant for a certain church with certain problems at a specific point in time). They are not doctrine for all time.

Arily--See answer to Baxtersmom.

Thank you, something. We should all seek to find our own spirituality.

Whyteangel--Yes, exactly.

Take--Agreed. On open mind allows for more spirituality in your life, IMO.

Sirnetwork--Interesting. I will research this. However, I never to have created my own religion.

Hahaha, Fuzzy. Now that I know who you are, you will be stalked once again.

Mtt, I said I believed some of all these. I don't subscribe to any of them in their entirety, except for basic Christianity (IOW, Christ is redeemer of humankind).

Seraphim--I believe redemption was necessary to become one with God, and that Christ paid the price for the entire human race...believer or not.

Janet--Right on! A woman after my own heart!

Jim--See answer to Seraphim. If you care to, you can email me with your questions...too involved to do here.

Passerby--I read the Gospel of Thomas, and part of Phillip's, but then stopped. I will pick it back up (I promise). You may very well be right. Do you believe that you are God? This is what I'm having trouble with. I believe that the Holy Spirit is within us, and outside of us, but I don't believe we are God. We are a piece of God (as His creation, created in His image), but not the entirety of God, IMO.

Dillon--You were the one with the link. Thanks.

Peace and blessings to all of you.

Wise, thank you for the link. It is very interesting indeed.

Answer 1

I also believe in Christ, I believe in Saints, and I believe in reincarnation, but I am not a Christian, I am not Catholic and I am not Buddhist. My religion is Spiritism. We believe we all are spirits made by God, and we all have to go through several lives until we reach the highest level of perfection, close to what Jesus taught us. Then, we will not be born again, but we will be helping the other human beings on their sprititual progress from the spiritual world. We believe spirits interact with human beings, we are surrounded by good and bad spirits, and we connect with the good ones by prayer, by good actions, by good thoughts and by learning about spirituality. I believe in God and in Jesus, because the spirits talk about them.

Peace!

Answer 2

Frenzy you might as well become Gnostic. That is what you basically are. You are what is called a Gnostic Christian, they held that Yeshua was the redeemer of the human race, obviously they didn't hold that the bible was inerrant because in those days there were many scriptures to read and in circulation that has thus been destroyed, they (most at least) believe in reincarnation/transmigration of souls, Nirvana for them was the inner kingdom, I'm sure they meditated, they knew that the Holy spirit was feminine, they believed in the divine pattern of God...

Not all the Gnostic Christians read the scriptures completely allegorical, I am a Ebionite so we are different in that regard, but purpose of the importance of applying the key of knowledge is that it creates further the connection for the education imparted from the divine within. You are a Christian Gnostic. Perhaps you should read the Gospel of Truth, that I said could be beneficial. I think you would like Valentinus. Also if you wanted, the Phillip Gospel.

Seriously you are a Gnostic Christian, my friend, your beliefs are almost the same.
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To answer your question, no I don't think I am God, no not at all, that's usually what people believe when they can't come to terms with paradoxes. Basically the Gnostic belief is that everyone has a spark of the divine that they are an expression of, this spark or soul is of the DNA of "God," offspring, or made in "Gods" imagine. If God is spirit and our bodies is the temple of God, our substance is of God, this doesn't mean our souls are "God" but that our souls are parcels within the mind of God, just as a child has the substance of their Father, so do we. Being prodigal children of the kingdom, we are heirs by our natures.

Answer 3

1.) Christ is the Redeemer from... what? If there is reincarnation, then the effects of both sin and death are made null and void, as sin would not provide spiritual death, and physical death is nothing more than a nap. So, if He cannot redeem you from sin (as you believe you do not have to pay any price for breaking God's laws), and He cannot redeem you from death (as death is caused by sin)... what, exactly, is He redeeming you from?

2.) True... however even the Hebrew word for 'the spirit of a male human' is also a feminine noun. Kind of like, in German, "der Hund" is a masculine noun, and I would still use the word "der" even if my dog is a female dog. And while I enjoy reading "die Zeitung", I don't think my newspaper is female. But, in verses that use a pronoun when speaking about the Holy Spirit (both in the Hebrew and the Greek), there is a "he", not a "she".

Answer 4

Have you explored Unitarian universalism? We take readings from all the worlds religions.we have a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. No, it is not some new age religion, it has been around since the middle ages. I personally vary between atheism and agnostic, maybe a bent toward Buddhism. I am a previous catholic and feel so free now to truly explore my beliefs. I sometimes describe myself as a seeker, because I am able to explore intellectually what my concepts of god and religion are. Peace

Answer 5

The Holy Spirit as feminine? Do you just go by the word? Is it receptive and mutable, unconditionally loving, and personal?

The masculine as the father and son is opposite to these.

You might check out the wedding that Jesus spoke of as the alchemical union of soul (fem) and spirit or Christ (masc) as the initiation of Nirvana and the Way into immortality.

Answer 6

I agree with you, I view my beliefs as Christian, but I don't believe exactly what the Bible says or even everything in my own religion. I think that it's very helpful to sort out what you believe and live your life that way instead of trying to fit into standards set by churches and things.

Answer 7

So as I see this you deny that Jesus is the I AM God first reveled to Moses, You believe that he lied to us when He promised that heaven and Earth would pass away but His word would not.. You think God lied to us though the Apostle when we were told that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. You deny that Apostles teaching that there is neither male nor female with God that we are all one in Christ Jesus...
Sounds like you have created your own way to God. For your sake I would remember you that Jesus is God and God does not lie. He told us that He is the Way the truth and the life. I don't care if you want to see God in nature, thats fine, but I would have you understand that any hope in anything but Jesus Christ holds out no hope for forgiveness of sin and eternal life with Him in a place He has created just for you.... Jim

Answer 8

Interesting.
Latter-day Saints (Mormons) believe:

-Christ is the redeemer of the human race.
-The Bible is the word of God as far as it is translated correctly
-That there are 3 tiers of Heaven as Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 15:40-42 and 2 Corinthians 12:2
-That meditation is a great supplement to prayer and is helpful in daily life
-Since the Holy Spirit doesn't have a physical form, that its' gender is irrelevant
-The existence of a Heavenly Mother (lightly taught)

Sounds like you didn't make up your own religion after all.

Answer 9

A new Cosmic of sorts! Welcome!
I'm an ex-Wicca (parted on great terms)
Born again by direct revelation.
Happy Child of God.
The Bible is a testimony. The Living Word exist in our hearts not in ancient scriptures. I like all scriptures because we all need testimonies. The Buddhist here are amazing.

Again welcome!

♥Blessed Be♥
♥=∞

Answer 10

Read this http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostic, Church Fathers