Thank you.
If you out yourself and say that you are a Christian, you are immediately faced with the "omnipotent and omniscient" God figure. I think my whole post was to say that I am a Christian, but I do not believe in omnipotence and omniscience. That may send me right to hell, but I risk it.
I just was browsing through old comments between you and me where I was giving a Kruzmaka-story. We had quite some fun there. It was a pleasure to re-read our comments. You must go there now and do the same :)
The way I understand it is that this idea of an all-powerful and all-knowing being is not found in the bible, but it was developed by religious scholars and practitioners through the ages. Christianity's history is very interesting. I hope that it has been a force for good in your life. I was raised in a Christian household but somewhere along the line, I unhooked my neural tentacles from the mother ship. :D
Yes, I remember the fun times. heh 😜
I find that understandable.
As always, the talent of communication tips the scales. If you master the art of dialogue as a Christian, you can get along with everyone, regardless of their worldview. This in no way means betraying your Christian roots and convictions, it just means that someone knows how to communicate on all levels and can speak the other person's language as well as their own. I have experienced this in my job, where I have had to deal with many different people. If someone is an architect, you try to talk to them in architectural images, if someone is a mechanic, in these images, and if someone is a football-trainer, you ask them about the details of their profession in order to find an approach, and so on. You adopt the metaphorical language of the other person and then communication is much easier. Now it's a lot to ask of both Christians and non-Christians to be able to do this, isn't it? And one wants to hit the other on the head because they don't want to move towards the other in their expression.
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I agree that you can adopt the language of the other if you wish for communication to advance along a given line, but sometimes there's just no point in it. So, you move on and create your own symbolic communication system with a little help from your friends. This is how new religions and paradigms are formed. It depends on your strengths, weaknesses, and interests in a given topic. For instance, matters of God, or as I prefer to call it Higher Intelligence, I explored at length when I was younger. I discovered what I needed to discover in the language that I understood at the time. I tried to discuss these matters with people in that language, and I just got the blank stare, so I moved on. My interest in metaphysical dimensions changed from exploration to actual participation in the (un)reality of being part of a vast cosmic nervous system that produces the emergent fractal elements of higher intelligence. 👽 This is the neurological planet on which I landed, though I take it for granted that there are many other planets out there with their own unique metaphysical realities and systems of communication.