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And if we add to that, the millions of living atheists, agnostics, and former
Christians who have had similar experiences to mine and would agree with my
conclusions, and add to that the millions of non believers and former believers in the past, some of which have left in writing a sampling of their
conclusions, it would seem to me that our personal experience and perspectives cancel each
other out, and all you are left with is your belief in the words written in your bible.
I think I agree with the
conclusion and would in some way renovate the path to get there — because as a
Christian, I think all
other paths to God lead to God - in - his - wrath and not to God - in - His - eternal - love.
I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following
conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified»
christians 3 - and that «crucified»
christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from
others in my interpretations.
It was, in fact, first used by Bultmann, who, in discussing the parables, reached the
conclusion: «We can only count on possessing a genuine similitude of Jesus where, on the one hand, expression is given to the contrast between Jewish morality and piety and the distinctive eschatological temper which characterized the preaching of Jesus; and where on the
other hand we find no specifically
Christian features.
I quoted several bible passages that should lead you, as it has
other Christians, to the
conclusion that all you need is god.
While many
Christian readers may disagree strongly with his views on evolution (pp. 59, 75), that living eternally is bad (pp. 79 - 80), and a few
other points of theology, in the end, he has the right
conclusion.
The fact that different schools of thought have come to different
conclusions after reading the same bible does nt seem to register with many
christians who effectively hold to the position «My doctrine is what the bible teaches so the
other view is wrong».
I can't prove God's existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a
conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the
other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental
Christian, who never thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.
American and British theologians oft en find themselves in significant agreement — drawing on similar sources and reaching shared
conclusions — but geographical distance as well as the very different church - state relations in the two nations have meant that
Christians in one region are often unaware of theological developments in the
other.
The personal devotion of a
Christian, we may then say in
conclusion, has for its goal precisely that which
Christian worship, in the sense of the cult, has for its goal: the offering of self to God, even in our intercessions for
others and for ourselves.
Then I watched
other Christians who did not come to this
conclusion.
From time to time thinkers and pastors, identified at the time by authority as «heretics», seen by
others as prophets, and by some historians now as social revolutionaries, reached the
conclusion that the
Christian Gospel spoke of a body of
Christians, of an incipient «Church», of a kind far removed from the type of political and economic structure maintained by Roman Canon Law.
If we as
Christians, as well as non-
Christians look at how Jesus conducted Himself and loved so abundantly and fully, there is no
other answer /
conclusion, than to love and love all as God intended.
The encyclical issued at the
conclusion of the Council states, «The Orthodox Church is particularly concerned about the situation facing
Christians, and
other persecuted ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East.
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