[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Each person's concept of God depends on many influences including >> interpretation of God's word, the part of God's word receiving the most >> emphasis, other's teaching of God's word, and each individual's >> psychological, economical, environmental, religious, and social backgrounds. >> > > If you're going by everybody's impression of God... you better hope yours is > pretty close to God's impression of himself. Love is there... so is justice > - you might want to mix that in your impression. > > -- > Larry Miller >
God know everything included the real meaning of his word, which God gave to the world. Since God knows everything, including the true meaning of his own word, God does not need religion. We as humans; however, are imperfect and we have create religion in an attempt to understand God, but in interpreting God's word, we have often defined God in terms of our own needs, desires, agendas, purposes by intentionally distorting God's word through false interpretation, thus creating a God in our imagine, rather than a God based on God's word. This has lead to the formation of many major religions, which include many denominations within each major religion. Our inability to form a consensus that conforms to the true God, based on his word, and our inability to define what God truly wants of us according to his word, has caused contention between religions that compete for power, trade, money and membership. The predictable result is passive and active aggression against any member of a competing religion/denomination or even holy wars that have lead to the death of too many people. I understand that God's word makes many references to judgment, but we have often unnecessarily imposed our own imperfect judgment in place of leaving the judging to God, (eg God's judgment - possessive ). The Inquisition's solution to the dilemma was to torture the victim until he confessed the crime to which he was accused, have the victim repent of his sins and ask God's forgiveness, and execute the victim by hanging, disembowelment, burning at the stake, shooting, beheading, or whatever, thus sending the soul to God as a saved sinner entitled to a glorious everlasting life. Regards, LelandJ > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
