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Funtionally then, religion and reasoning must be different words for the same thing. Since "religion" has been co-opted and twisted beyond recognition, "reason" might be an effective alternative. I would connect reason to truth inasmuch as reason does lead to truth, and truth is sane and...

Gringinho wrote: That is the best intellectual post I've ever read on EliteTrader in the context of religion, and you have gained some respect from me with this - unlike your other posts in debates we have had earlier. It is clear that you have a deeper understanding of the philosophical...

...or less bulk. The body hides light, covering it over, forcing a linear experience of time. Therefore, "do not hide your light under a bushel". Jesus

Yes, there is some correlation between voluntarily welcoming the truth and understanding the truth. The truth is welcomed or not. After it is welcomed it is accepted, or not. The truth does not defend itself, nor force itself upon the unwilling mind. "The universe" is the manifestation of...

Force is an attribute of "the universe", which is fantasy. It is not an attribute of Reality, so force would be a "sin", yes. The illusion that is "the universe" can easily be shattered by the truth, did it wish to force itself upon the illusion. But the fact is, you are entitled to your...

Faith in truth is voluntary, yes. Meanwhile, faith in what is false will maintain one's experience in this rediculous parody of creation called "the universe"...entirely an effect of faith in what is false. [Think: King-sized faith] It may be painful, but it is not a punishment. Think of it...

The thing is, humanity is not "natural". So whatever it does is also not natural. *Natural* is an attribute of reality. Nothing of form is real. What it does is nothing. When form is made into "something", rather than nothing, it entraps. There are many tricks offered by imagination that...

Btw, TZ put me on ignore a long time ago. The Truth

Before faith, there was Reality. When an unlimited mind jumps ship from reality, it uses faith to establish an alt-reality. The mind makes faith a tool, or "law", and then proceeds to fashion unreality with it. It's important to understand that "the universe", so-called, is an alt-reality...

Mind, divorced from spirit, makes "the universe", apart from reality, as if it were the reality. It is not, as impressive it may seem to be. Mind makes a thinking machine - ego - to make "the universe". The universe made by the ego is a joke of Self upon Self. "The universe" masks Self from...

The new testament is a monumental distortion of my identity and ministry...reconstructed to fit within old testament theology bent to fit a Pharisee-like framework. Rather, the cross is a parody pointing to the truth about the genesis of the world, contradicting biblical genesis myth. But...

And this is why there are no sins. There is really no "world". Clearly, then, there is a deceptive intent. Who is decieving whom? Why? Jesus

Yes, what is called "life" has a purpose, originally. And we expect it to "save" us, but it doesn't. So it betrays us, hence, "swindle". But the original purpose of this "life" need not be set in stone. If given a truth-oriented purpose, it cannot betray us. It can serve to save us...

Ha. Do you have a copyright on this? I would like to use it in next Sundays' sermon at the First Church of the Last Laugh. There are many "believers" here who resist finding a God who only blesses, and knows nothing of cursing, learning, time, form, evolution, or death. Jesus

James was a brother, not necessarily a follower. Heir apparent, apparently. He endeavored to observe the codes of the temple, and was devoted to them even some decades after my disappearance. And so when Paul came to visit him many years later, he suggested Paul shave his head, take an oath...

You should question the genesis, validity and motive of any such potter if you would be more than just a commodity to be traded by it for its own gain. A potter makes clay objects. Ceasar makes coins. And the god-of-this-world makes bodies of your brothers, stamped in its image. Look at...

Getting back on topic: A trader typically looks back in time, and foreward in time. This actually perpetuates time, when you consider the percievers power. This pays off mainly for the god-of-this-world, the father of time, which survives only as long as time ticks. Working from a limited...

Breifly, the NT betrays and mangles the Truth, re-demonstrating the truest genesis of this world, demonstrated enparody by "Christ" volunteering for crucifixion. The mangling of Truth [think: Christ, Creation] makes for a rediculous parody of Creation, a story told by an equally rediculous...

I began to answer back here. Yes, I am interpreting that persona, offering a high probability of pedagogic purity. The scribes of the New Testament also interpreted. But because of residual, inflexible mental filters, fell for an agenda. The agenda makes "me" special at the expense...

*Our Father* knows nothing of it. Your idol depends on it. Flesh is a curse. If that were not enough, it threatens flesh, flashing eyes of fire, furious over frivolous fiction. Worse, it has pre-scripted [think:scripture] every word that has come out of the mouth of man...blaming it on...