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DeepSight:
In terms of the existence of souls, I would stretch that further - we are probably talking not just zillions of years - but such an unquantifiable stretch of time that is beyond the capacity of the mortal mind to grasp.

This is with the proviso though, that time is not an illusion - and it just very well might be. Indeed, almost certainly is.

Time is an illusion. There is no past or present or future.

DeepSight:
Profound, incisive, brilliant at once and also poetic.

Two questions strike me here and please oblige me -

1. What informs your reference to God in the feminine.

To think God is one thing, then you will think God is not another. And that would be a large mistake. God is everything.

DeepSight:
2. Please can you share your background in terms of philosophy and what writings, if any, have influenced your current take on the meaning of life. Also if you belong to any group or spiritual/ philosophical persuasion.

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khia:
@ the Op, those people who died in the Holocaust were not God's people.

You cannot understand a God who will not act as humans would, you are lost.

You believe life exists as a test, a trial, a period of putting you through your paces to see if you are "worthy."

But if you believe that life exists as an opportunity, a process through which you discover— remember—that you are worthy, then it seems insane.

You believe God is an ego-filled God who requires attention, adoration, appreciation, and affection—and will punish or kill if he doesn't get it.

But if you believe that God is without ego or need, but the source of all things, and the seat of all wisdom and love, then your theologies fall apart.

You believe that God is a vengeful God, jealous in His love and wrathful in His anger.

But if you believe God is a peaceful God, joyous in Her love and passionate in Her ecstasy then you belief falls apart.

The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are. In so doing you do please God, and glorify Her as well.

khia:
The Hebrews.

You all personalize God and that's where you miss it. We liken God to a Human.
Every culture will tells they are God's own people and of how he is done miracles for them. So if the Hebrews are God's people, my dear you will still not be God's even if you make heaven.

Religion is a bundle of confusion. "The religious" can't give answers to so many logical questions, all they would say is God is not man to think the way we humans do. Yet, they select different portions of their religious books, parts that serve their interest, wrap it with God to incite fear. For example in Christianity, no matter how fervent you are and make heaven, you would still be subjugated to been ruled over by the the twelve tribes of Israel when Christ's new millennial reign begins. What are you all fighting for? I mean when the devil would be imprisoned for a thousand years only and after that he would be released, while y'all, whom the devil has introduced sin to, will burn in hell for eternity.
If the Bible is preached from its beginning to its last page, y'all will be too confused to understand anything. So, what you do is pick the ones you like and serve you.

Preetychina22:
Always skeptical.
By past life, do you mean before the British colonial rule and amalgamation or before? Lol

I'm talking thousands of years. From Atlantis, Egypt, All civilizations BC, and after.

midnighter:
You need to learn how to study a text in context. You dont just pick out random verses and compare them and expect them to still make sense to you.

People study theology for years to be able to preach the Bible with wisdom and youre here plucking random verses out of thin air and talking of atheism smh

That's why our pastor's have not written another Bible? They study the one from thousand years ago. Lol

whitelotus:
Everything, including my excrement? Shite? Feces?

you suppose he is not?
You are actually limiting God. You are seeing her as a human. Lol. Congratulations.

Pataricatering:
And u chose Nigeria ?

Yes, life is about creating, experiencing. Life isn't come, do and go forever. We chose our family, our country even our complexion. If you understand that as spirit we don't die, that as spirit we are part of God, you will see that our life is forever and all this Nigeria talk wouldn't matter. At the end, you'd go to another place for another experience. No spirit is young, what is young is our bodies. Residue of our past life's we see in form of dreams.



Do you know that your family, those you have around you as friends too, you all have met in different life times? I need not say more. Understand that nothing is ever an accident.

Most of the New Testament writers never met or saw Jesus in their lives. They lived many years after Jesus left the Earth. They wouldn’t have known Jesus of Nazareth if they walked into him on the street. But. The Bible writers were great believers and great historians. They took the stories which had been passed down to them and to their friends by others—elders—from elder to elder, until finally a written record was made.

And not everything of the Bible authors was included in the final document.

Already "churches” had sprung up around the teachings of Jesus—and, as happens whenever and wherever people gather in groups around a powerful idea, there were certain individuals within these churches, or enclaves, who determined what parts of the Jesus Story were going to be told—and how. This process of selecting and editing continued throughout the gathering, writing, and publishing of the gospels, and the Bible.

Even several centuries after the original scriptures were committed to writing, a High Council of the Church determined yet one more time which doctrines and truths were to be included in the then-official Bible—and which would be "unhealthy” or "premature” to reveal to the masses.

Goldenheart002:
There's nothing like sin?
Do u mean it's okay to kill, steal, rape, do all sorts of evil and be cool?? I need clarification, pls

Evil, bad are all perspective.


There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident.” Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a divine purpose behind everything—and therefore a divine presence in everything.

Although, we have been raised to believe that good and bad do exist; that right and wrong are opposed; that some things are not okay, not alright, not acceptable in the sight of God. But, I tell you everything is "acceptable” in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists. To say that it is not okay is to say that it is not a part
of God—and that is impossible..

Our ideas about right and wrong are just that—ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who we Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who you Are.

If your values serve you, hold to them. Argue for them. Fight to defend them.

Finally, nothing happens without God. If God isn't there it means God is limited.

Bluezy13:
Please, to which faith do you belong ??

I am not religious.

Stick to your beliefs, if that serves you. Hold tight. Do not waiver. For your ideas about "right” and "wrong” are your definitions of Who You Are. Yet do not require that others define themselves according to your terms. And do not stay so "stuck” in your present beliefs and customs that you halt the process of evolution itself.

Men invented the devil to scare people into doing what they wanted, under the threat of separation from God if they did not. Condemnation, being hurled into the everlasting fires of hell, was the ultimate scare tactic. Yet now you need be afraid no more. For nothing can, or ever will, separate you from God.
When at last you see that there is no separation in God’s World—that is, nothing which is not God—then, at last, will you let go of this invention of man which you have called Satan.

Snowale:
There is a story behind that, it's a traditional, for those that performs hajj, not compulsory you must do it every year. Get the story yourself, read it with an unbiased mind

I thought it was called devil stoning

Snowale:
those that didn't believe another prophet came after Moses are the Jews, those that didn't believe that another Prophet came after Jesus, are Christains while those that believed in the truth that the last prophet came, are the Muslims, they don't worship man, or cross or mother Mary's statue or Jesus statue.

But they stone the pillars in Mecca every year.

Obaiyski:
You think all is well with you.. I tell you within a short while your eyes will clear and you will remember today.

I laugh oooo

A passage from the Bible does hint on pastlife too

Matthew 17:12

But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Can a human being be owned like a property?
Can human feelings be caged or restricted?

englishmart:
So you chose to be born a Nigerian? LMFAO

Yes, it might have been consciously or it was determined by my actions in a pastlife.

Do not, therefore, look to God to somehow "fix everything in the end” by imposing some form of celestial justice in the "afterlife.” I tell you this: There is no "afterlife,” but only life. Death does not exist. And the way we experience and create our life, as individuals and as a society, is our demonstration of what we think is just.

Acehart:
Suffering achieves two things for the children of God:

1. To expunge the love of sin in us. This happens when suffering comes as judgement (discipline).

2. To bring out the nature God made us for. (This is what many call the Gethsemane experience. Gethsemane means Garden of pressing. (There was an oil press factory in that garden)).

Incredible but wait.
Who is defining what sin is?

There's nothing like sin, what there is, is that which doesn't serve our highest interest.
And yet again every religion strongly believe theirs is the only way to God.
Separatism breeds Chaos.
God's wish is for us to come to this understanding that you and I are one, that we are not separate but one, whatsoever I do, should be in best thought of us.

englishmart:
A very sound analysis. If I was born as Indian, there's an 80% possible I would have been Hindu, and won't believe in Jesus. How is that supposed to alienate me from heaven? Do people choose their birthplaces or countries?

Yes, they choose.
And let me add no one is ever alienated from God

Englishmart
I am happy you have come to this knowledge.
Of course, I might delve beyond what you have come to, the Bible has so many things that don't add up. Lots of Christians know this but they have no choice, their mind has become enslaved. Let me share what I have come to:
The truth is whatsoever you believe in works for you, our belief births power, that is so because we are offshoot of God, God lives through us and through God we live. We have been taught to see right and wrong but there is nothing like right or wrong.
They say when we die in sin, we end up burning for all eternity, well that's a lie, no thanks to the Roman Catholic Church, there is nothing like hell, instead there's Reincarnation, we in Africa believed strongly in reincarnation except that now it's just the devil's doing, names like Babatunde ( father is reborn) are significant.

When a child is born blind, the child probably made someone blind in his past life. The Bible can't give you this knowledge because those that know seek to cage our minds with fear.

Kokoebapluse:
You must be one religion or atheist, but if you belong to non then you re the most confusing jiva

Lol.
You have no Idea, where I am...

Sunnycliff:
I wake up everyday and say my prayers, commanding my day. So there's nothing extraordinary about anyday, rather the live of holiness and righteousness one has to live to see God on the last day

Every day is the same day.
Same Day different event, we are the ones aging. Thus, yesterday is today, tomorrow is today.

Gallantrugged:
Honestly, you need to take my advice. Every thing is with the permission of God but, He instructed us to ask him and pray to him. He guides and at the same time He misguides for reasons best known to Him. Prayer has the power to make Him change or alter anything He had already willed

The reason why I would not do so, is that God's perspective is not ours, ours have been segmented, grade with selfishness. You see, when you pray and expect God to change this or that and it doesn't happen, you get hurt. The truth is, no clime in which we find ourselves is bad, no act is even bad, you are here to experience something, you choose to be here. The reason you have simply forgotten.

Gallantrugged:
You're wrong, you're in a state of confusion rather. You can just pray to God your creator if you believe that you were created by Him in the first place, for His guidance to the right path while you sincere, and Wallahi you shall find a devine intervention, just like He Guided many who were in error much more than you...

Would I need to pray and ask my creator before he guides me through? I thought he already created me to experience life. The problem is that you have drawn a line between that which you call greatness and what is not. You forget that every act, is with the permission of God.

Kokoebapluse:
Hmmm really?

Are truly atheist? If yes I have some questions to ask you

I am not an atheist, religion is simply man's invention.

Kokoebapluse:
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Not only Christmas is a pagan celebration

Even Christianity is a pagan group of people, who think they re worship Jesus as God or give him glory as son of God imagine that? Christian are funny groups of people, if you ask them who is Jesus

Some will say Jesus is God
Some will say Jesus is son of God
Some will said he is part of God

But they all read Bible but different thinking can you see that Bible and Christian are confused people?

Jesus is nothing but a prophet from Allah, he is not son not part of God.

May almighty Allah guide lost sheep to the right way of Jesus religion which is Islam

Religion, no matter it's root, is a bundle of confusion.

Tosinex:
It's been more than 2000 years since he was born, we should be more concerned about His second coming! This is very paramount. He said "pray that you may be counted worthy to stand in the presence of him when he comes the second time"

He ain't coming. Na scam