I personally agree with you. I do believe in an unconditionally loving absolute being to the universe. I also argue that our purpose for being...
Yes, I certainly agree with your assessment of Nichiren. I do think that there is an underlying, somewhat hidden, duality in the Eastern religions...
Or could you imagine having a friend, let's call him Harry, and you are a conservative boy, and the two of you grow up together, but he is always...
When my son was in 7th grade and we went off to Hawaii for my sister-in-laws wedding and he fell behind in school I helped him catch up. He had...
That is a good scripture based answer.
Would anyone be open to this argument: That God's love is truly unconditional, but God had an understanding with man in regards to God's...
That is one of the better answers I have heard to this question. After all, a spiritual experience is not one of rationality, but of a purely...
Looking forward to it.
This is a very good presentation of information. I don't think religion copies from one or another, but rather that religions build off of a...
I was fascinated with the concept of a holographic universe when I first heard of it but did not think we could ever prove such a thing and...
Fair enough.
Somewhere I might have some literature that defines virginity in the ancient Middle East on slightly different terms other than the mere act of...
But she said that the angel came to her and said that God would do that! The same thing happened to my wife. I wanted to have relations before our...
To include your comments on page 3 of this thread, about reality needing to be perceived perhaps the problem is not Who the percipient is but What...
That is a good answer Desos. Now let me ask this, and please don't leave like Soulcompromise because I am not arguing with you, just trying to...
Exactly! Though I would again take this one step further--if physical existence is only of the present and limited to the present, only to the...
I am late to the party, so let me step back to page 3 As a phenomenalist, I would argue that it is the phenomena of the object that exists...
I haven't been on HipForums for quite some time. I was trying to write and finally get some things published after many years. But there was an...
I look at the Garden of Eden, and the story of Babel to an extent, as a very old metaphor for our indigenous ancestors. Adam and Eve could talk...
Perhaps it is arrogant of mankind to project the human constructs of morality upon god. On the other hand, maybe God did impart universal laws of...
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