Jennilynn Posted November 15, 2014 Report Posted November 15, 2014 I came to this site because of a topic about being eternally alone, as that is what I'm facing also. I have read many conference talks and inspirational stories, but they don't quite address what I feel im facing. I am currently studying many of the worlds faiths and am fascinated by the similarities in them if people would stop pointing out the differences. I also love how so many of those differences are a simply difference of semantics and the words used rather than the actual meaning. Quote
JimmiGerman Posted November 15, 2014 Report Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) I came to this site because of a topic about being eternally alone, as that is what I'm facing also. I have read many conference talks and inspirational stories, but they don't quite address what I feel im facing.I am currently studying many of the worlds faiths and am fascinated by the similarities in them if people would stop pointing out the differences. I also love how so many of those differences are a simply difference of semantics and the words used rather than the actual meaning. I once have learned that we either will go to Heaven or to Hell, to be with God and the angels or with the devil and his followers, but never be sent to an island in the ocean of eternity. Which religion is telling you that we would be eternally alone? That really makes me -freeze- ... By the way, even if you stop pointing out most of the differences, where would you find strong similarities between a Christian believing in resurrection and a Buddhist, who, after some rounds of reincarnation, believes and hopes once to end in a state of non-existence which is called the Nirvana? Edited November 17, 2014 by JimmiGerman Quote
PolarVortex Posted November 16, 2014 Report Posted November 16, 2014 RealClearReligion.org had an interesting article yesterday about the unusual beliefs of C. S. Lewis. The article contained this interesting statement: He [C. S. Lewis] frequently stated that hell is locked from the inside and insisted that hell is self-chosen. Quote
JimmiGerman Posted November 16, 2014 Report Posted November 16, 2014 (edited) RealClearReligion.org had an interesting article yesterday about the unusual beliefs of C. S. Lewis. The article contained this interesting statement: He [C. S. Lewis] frequently stated that hell is locked from the inside and insisted that hell is self-chosen. Don't know who C.S. Lewis is, but I also think that hell is self-chosen. See all those ones in the world who already have chosen to live in their present hell (because of drugs, violence, sheer greed, lust, crime, hate, denying God, the Spirit, and his grandeur), and who are gonna make their destiny a path to maybe another hell by their own choice. Edited November 16, 2014 by JimmiGerman Quote
Blackmarch Posted November 19, 2014 Report Posted November 19, 2014 I came to this site because of a topic about being eternally alone, as that is what I'm facing also. I have read many conference talks and inspirational stories, but they don't quite address what I feel im facing.I am currently studying many of the worlds faiths and am fascinated by the similarities in them if people would stop pointing out the differences. I also love how so many of those differences are a simply difference of semantics and the words used rather than the actual meaning.greetings! i will try my best. Quote
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