Does anyone believe in a Generic God like a ball of light thats nice who doesn't eternally torture?>God is kind but can punish sins harshly but doesn't punish permanently>Doesn't need scripture because doesn't expect more than don't murder, don't steal, don't rape, don't cheat, don't be an asshole (God: "Figure out how to be a kind person with out a book)>allows magick and contact with supernatural/spirit beings as long as you aren't being evil>never allowed "moderated slavery" like the Bible and doesn't call humans their slave>never asked or commanded for animals or living things or their son to be sacrificed for sins>is free will over predestination>still doesn't allow murder, rape, torture, slavery, cheating, theft, violence that isn't self defense>creates homosexuals and bisexuals and allows them to be in relationships as he or she created the homosexuals and bisexuals>never commanded people to throw stones at the heads of gays or stones at the heads of disobedient children or stones at the heads of people who worked on a sabbath and also didn't do it 2000-3000 years ago then changed the rules because>doesn't throw you in a fire pit if you don't believe in him or her, is just interested in human beings being kind to each other and animals>life is about learning to be good through pain and other lessons we find out later after we die>allows you to marry permanently in the afterlife>temporarily punishes evil in a restorative/teaching way>when you die surprise, God tells you life is eternal>gives us multiple paths to choose and options all of which are goodI don't know if the Creator is actually like this because I haven't met them, but I hope it's something like this or better. The Bible kind of disappointed me with cruelty and allowed but moderated slavery (In the NT paul commands slaves to obey their master like they were Jesus, how isn't this supporting slavery? inb4 muh freedom. Freedom is good.)
>>42556842Welcome to Neoplatonism glad to see a new brother in arms
>>42556876What is neoplatonism?
>>42556893No one knows
>>42556842>is free will over predestination>still doesn't allow murder, rape, torture, slavery, cheating, theft, violence that isn't self defense>creates homosexuals and bisexuals and allows them to be in relationships as he or she created the homosexuals and bisexuals>never commanded people to throw stones at the heads of gays or stones at the heads of disobedient children or stones at the heads of people who worked on a sabbath and also didn't do it 2000-3000 years ago then changed the rules becauseAll this are contradictory
That's kinda meI just believe that there's a God to which I have direct connection to and he protects me.I don't believe in any religious texts tho, they seem retarted.
>>42556842>I only want the good things from life, none of the hard
>>42556842i wish God allowed homosexuality. i cant change i know that much.
>>42558867Remember that being a homosexual isn't a sin. It's the act of it that's a sin. Homosexuality as a temptation or an urge is not the sin, to be tempted isn't to be in sin. Christ Himself had been tempted with power and pride from Satan in the desert. And since we know that Christ was without sin, and we know he had been tempted we can logically conclude to be tempted is not the same as sin. If we say to be tempted is to sin, it means Christ sinned. But we know Christ is sinless so temptation isn't a sin.Passively "being" homosexual aka to be tempted does not make you in sin.
I think God us probably true neutral, like Azathoth. Jesus is good tho.
>>42558867Come to Amon-Ra, my child! Unless you mean lesbian then I will send you off to Aten or the sea I dont know lol
>>42556842>>Doesn't need scripture because doesn't expect more than don't murder, don't steal, don't rape, don't cheat, don't be an asshole (God: "Figure out how to be a kind person with out a book)Doesn't make sense to me with a more generic impersonal creator. All of this seems pretty arbitrary on what he allows or doesn't allow. >>42558138Exactly
>>42556842>Does anyone believe in a Generic Good God with no scripture?No, but I believe in a Generic Evil God with no scripture.
>>42556842>don't murder, don't stealYou would die. You cannot live without killing others.>but that's not murder!!So who deserves to die for your food and enjoyment?Your ideas are bullshit and entirely based on the culture you grew up in.You're just doing the Satan thing of "I should be God and do things my way and everything would be better."Thankfully, God allows this, and has this entire material existence where people can go and try to mold reality to their liking.How enjoyable is it so far?You get to stay here as long as you don't want to follow God.
The Creator in native american culture. He's chill asf. Also literally ANY belief system before this artificial one came in XDYa they want you worshipping larp deities like doritos bois
>>42556842that's god the father; the first source, he just observes and his big guys like christ make appearances in worlds
>>42556876simultaneously pantheist and athiest neoplatonists rise up. God is just a mispelling of Good :P
>>42558867>>42558876I spent all day yesterday downloading porn only to delete it before going to bed, last night my dream ended with me trying to rub one out, and today I didn't have a single lustful thought. I don't know what changed but clearly something did.
>>42562391those who fast do not hunger as easilythose with busy days find rest easilythose who use patience find calm easilythose who are humble find confidence easilythose who practice abstinence do not fall to lust as easilyyou're remembering what virtue feels like in your heart, slowly. at one time you were a child and you did not have these vices, but you became someone you wouldn't recognize anymore. it's time to end your life of emptiness and sin.
>>42556842God is inside you bro. You're looking for idols to worship.
>>42562419God is outside of you too. And God is in between you and everything else too. Being, Incarnation, Emanation.Truth. Wisdom, LearningPathos, Logos, EthosBeing, being, becoming
Bible is a provably fallible text you dont have to obey any of it.Do not listen to priests they are cult leaders, hypocrites, want your $$$, etc, and will throw violent hissy fits when you expose them for faking miracles.>well see i uh had a uhh vision>well you see uh "god" told me to tell you to do something i wont doThe only thing priests are good for is making daughters to sodomize.>>42562372Doesnt exist, bible is fallible text (ignore all christian apologetics (dishonest $$$ motivated). Bible is an intensely fallible text w innate logical errors which makes it not inspired by any transcendant divine being.>ooh but the goofy ass numerologyAny very smart human from the medieval era could contrive that.Numerous inconsistencies prove its a fallible text and its safe to disobey it as well as any goddamn priest ($$$/power hungry cult leaders who fake miracles)Christianity is a contrived religion. It spawned so many heresies and schisms because the text it relies on is fallible.>i had a vision>no i had a vision>jesus told me>god told me>the bible told meShut the fuck up antichrists.
>>42562438I like plato.Christianity stole the logos concelt from the greeks, christians lied about basically everything. There is manuscript proof the bible was itself altered many times, making it not divine. All apologetics ministries are lying. Religion is an industry built off of deception and charity fraud.
>>42562438Not even going to try to address Neoplatonism directly? You're picking on pedagogy rather than things that were constructed for the purposes of logic.>this math problem makes no sense, Samantha just went to the store and bought 4 apples, but now she's buying 7 more? she hasn't even eaten any apples in between!!!!this is what you sound like
>>42562464Tl;drReligion was invented, as a way for evil, lazy, and greedy men, to get free $$$, or animals, or land, from cowardly, superstitious, and weak willed men.
>>42562469I will not address neoplatonismI have experienced contact w the larger quantum field (feels like a very large bubble of...timespacecausalitysomething), I cannot describe all experiences using language. Research the newer quantum mechanical brain conciousness theories.Whilst there is an existence after brain death, what is known as the ego probably does not persist.
>>42562524>i have experiences that I cannot explain verbally>this is totally different from invoking mystic experiences of God because... it just is okay???
>>42562471Institutional religion, yes absolutely.Religion as a belief system built by an individual's natural exploration of life and accumulated knowledge with logic and feeling balanced as one, no. I'm not religious in that I fit into any one category, but I don't denounce those who are religious.I do have a problem with those who treat religion as a cult. As more than simply a system of faith and belief.When you start putting religion into practice as sacrifices, rituals and ceremony you start inching toward the borderline. If you cross over it from beneficial, harmless exploration of belief and into indoctrination, harm or treat it as territorial expansion, you've gone too far and that religion has become evil.
>>42558867Become Daoist and no longer bound to abrahamic neurosis.
>>42562559I dont like mystical experiences they make me feel like Im going insane.
>>42558876>>42558867I hope this is not a dumb question but I am a bit attracted to the idea of crossdressing and I have always been held back by that one Bible verse against it.
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