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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]PP makes it pretty clear that she is not a fundamentalist (like you?) who believes there is only one path to God. In the past, she has said she respects the atheist "path" as well, but it seems to go unmentioned here as a legitimate way to live.[/quote]

In fairness, that wasn't really part of the OP's survey.  The questions were specifically about religious faith.  If you ask me if I believe the atheists path to be "legitimate", of course I would agree that it is. I believe in God the same way I believe in gravity.  I can't see it, but I can certainly see the effect.  I strongly believe that all beings eventually find "God" whatever the word means to them.  I don't need to worry about the atheist's path. God has that covered. He/She doesn't need my help.

The poster questioning my Christianity is concerned about my statement that I do not believe humans need to be "saved". I probably should have phrased it more clearly.  I believe every person is born good. I reject the concept of original sin completely. God is good and therefore incapable of creating evil.  We have free will. We screw up over and over again. That's the nature of ego.  But every single being on this planet is inherently good.  There is a light in each person. Some just hide it really, really well.  I believe that when Christ spoke of salvation, he was speaking metaphysically.  Salvation comes when we begin to let go of ego and move towards enlightenment.  I believe we all get there. It may take many lifetimes.  I believe we are literally "born again" and again and again until we are finally capable of being born into eternal communion with God. We all eventually join the creative consciousness of our creator.  We return to our beginning when our soul journey is complete.

Jesus the Christ is my way-shower.  I follow Christ therefore, I Am a Christian.  Others follow different paths with different way-showers.  [b]All are manifestations of the same God.[/b]

Just MY personal beliefs.  I enjoy discussions about religion and spirituality. I do not appreciate being told I am "not a Christian". To the poster who said that - May I gently suggest you spend a little time thinking about what it means to be Christ-like? [/quote]

I don't appreciate being told different paths are all "manifestations of the same God." And atheists might not appreciate being told that God had their path covered.

Just sayin'.

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Big difference - I said over and over and over again in my posts that these were my beliefs. My path. I think it's great that others have different paths. We learn a lot from each other. I respect the atheist who does good because he truly loves others much more than the fundi Christian serving soup to the homeless once week because it looks good and because he is terrified of going to hell.  To me, the atheist is the one behaving like Christ. It's hard for me to imagine an all powerful being needing to scare people into worship. That's just not the God I know. [/quote]

But it doesn't sound as if you understand that atheists don't have a "wayshower"  You may believe that they do, but they not.

You talk about different paths, but when you say "That's just not the God I know" it sounds like you somehow know that there are a lot of different  gods out there.  And that people can choose their own to believe in.[/quote]

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