myTakes: Religion & Spirituality
Part 2, the shorter STORY of jesus
more background around death, in a shorter story. if it seems long? still actually 80 words here about legs, summarized 176 words so shorter. the first section about crucify seemed long? it summarized 374 words in around...
Monotheism and Angels
topic: Monotheism and Angels in contrast to Hindu that has "plural gods deva" like divine, not different "appearances of same one" because claiming all same one is not hindu, catholic does claim "not three gods but one"...
Topic Knowing god
Many "excuses" exist and were taught that serve the purpose of not searching for knowing god or ending the search "too early" as one college prophesor wrote. we can analyze the ancient jew faith that they teach and...
No-one is big in this universe.
Ask the Himalayas about camels and elephants. He will say, these are very small creatures. They are visible only when viewed through a microscope, otherwise they are not visible. Ask Earth if there is any news from the...
How DARE to even question (yet alone deny) the existence of GOD?
How DARE to even question (yet alone deny) the existence of G.O.D. ? The proof is all around us (or not around us). Both of which we can detect with our 5 senses, and of which we can't detect at all. We shouldn't...
The discipline of the Lord
The bible says that just as a father disciplines His children, so the Lord your God, disciplines you. A lot of people think that the less fortunate failed at life, they don’t have the beautiful body, the big house, the...
My understanding of the daily bread in Matthew 6
The bible says to pray that God will give you your daily bread. My understanding of that is to ask God for foundations, pillars, needs, and important concerns, and not use God to get diamonds and pearls and yachts. I have...
The Divinity Of The Messiah!
One of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity relates that Jesus died and allowed for the shedding of his blood for the sake of granting forgiveness to people. In other words Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for...
What the bible says is the secret to money and status
The bible teaches there are 2 secrets that make you rich: 1 - You must offer humble, sacrificial, unpaid and careful service to a humanitarian cause and do it for results and not for attention and you must be modest,...
The Abyss is Looking Back.
In scripture, the God of the Hebrews stated that He cannot get humanity to look to Him for our direction and definition, and because we have abandoned relationship with Him, He leaves us to our devices. He says He would...
Why Religion Does Not Always Make You Holy
You have people who say they are religious committing acts of terrorism against outsiders, supporting xenophobic political candidates, trying to exclude their cultural or religious “other” from the public sphere, opposing...
Barefooted: A Catholic White Man's Visit To A Hindu Monastery
Anyone who truly knows me, would very much consider me a "Desiphile". So when I found out that there was a Hindu monastery on Kauai, I could not pass up the opportunity to visit. The monastery, which is located in deep in...
Why your character matters more than your aptitude
I know three people with tested genius IQs that ended up unemployed, broke, or underpaid. All three had character issues and family transgressions and sins. One person was a social coward, too terrified to talk to people...
My Theory on Obesity Among Religious Christians
There is a psychiatrist who said 80% of obese women were molested as children, meaning it happened before their late teenage years. I believe obesity and food addiction is caused by cognitive dissonance, where there is a...
How I understand the notion of One God as a Christian
I do not view the idea of one God as a Christian God or a Muslim God or a Buddhist God or an Orthodox Judaism Tetragrammaton. My idea of one God is much more easy to understand. That there is only one way to live and...
How I wasted my childhood by not knowing God
When I was in middle school I was the smartest kid in my class, not religious at all, and I used to mock people less popular and less intelligent then me and I loved to make people feel dumb. Looking back at these 12 year...
This is my non Jewish Understanding of the 12 / 14 Tribes of Israel.
The 12 / 14 Tribes of Israel No G-d beside justice and charity // Zebulun (Dreams) No image or status or standard worship // Simeon & Levi (Knowledge & Power) Do not take the Lord’s name in vain // Reuben (Responsibility)...
A Dream God gave me about accessing miracles
I had a dream where God said that if I worry about what I can control, that God will worry about what I cannot control. I can think of examples in my own life, I had debt and could not afford too much but diligently...
How I understand the Ten Commandments as a Gentile, or Non Jew
How I understand the 10 Commandments as a Gentile 1 - No other Gods To worship justice and not sensation. Spending money on shelter and food and not wine and vacations and disco jams. 2 - No idols To delight in spiritual...
Why Bible facts are not necessarily your facts
This week, somebody told me they did not believe the story of Genesis because apples came from Asia and not Africa and I pointed out the bible never said it was an apple tree and that the apple tree might be a symbol for...
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