RE: Guys do you believe Howard Storm's NDE?
March 2, 2017 at 4:29 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2017 at 4:35 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 1, 2017 at 8:03 am)Little Rik Wrote: I never said that I do reject holy books so please try not to interpret me wrong.
I did say that God never did write the holy books and that doesn't mean that holy books are wrong.
I also did say that nobody knows who write holy books.
You don't reject holy books but you don't acknowledge their authenticity so how could they be right if somebody just made them up? Now you didn't say that they were made up but you also said they weren't written by god which means that humans made them up. But to you they are not made up except parts that you don't like which are made up...
(March 1, 2017 at 8:03 am)Little Rik Wrote: I also say that priests and other people give different interpretation to the same story and in most cases is the wrong interpretation.And Howard Storm is exactly that kind of priest. Or do you agree with his interpretations of the Bible?
(March 1, 2017 at 8:03 am)Little Rik Wrote: I have been a student of the late P.R.Sarkar for many many years and I can assure you that his teachings
are better than solid gold so I wouldn't say that what I follow is based on nothing.
Well Rick this does sound like some sort of Hippy religion. You say that you don't make up your religion so you let P.R.Sarkar do it. What prompt you to dab into mysticism?
(March 1, 2017 at 8:03 am)Little Rik Wrote: In any case God always make sure that people understand that loving each other is the most important thing of all regardless whether you follow religions or not.
The old saying goes..........THE WAY TO HEAVEN ARE INFINITE.
Not so if you look at stuff like religious bigotry and bloodshed. What you're talking about is perennial philosophy or in other words unity of all religions, but that is idealism and not realism. Do you know how offensive this sounds to people of other religions then yours? If let's say a pope said that many Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews are actually "anonymous Christians" he would be in lots of trouble.
Even conservative Catholics would see this theory as a violation of their longstanding conviction that "outside the church there is no salvation."
This perennial philosophy is wishful thinking and it has not made the world a safer place. In fact, this naive theological groupthink has made the world more dangerous by blinding us to the clashes of religions that threaten us worldwide.
I mean I don't deny that lots of religions rivals are converging when it comes to ethics. For instance the so called "Golden Rule" can be found not only in the Christian Bible and the Jewish Talmud but also in Confucian and Hindu books. No religion tells you it is okay to have sex with your mother or to murder your brother. But that's not enough because no religion sees ethics alone as its reason for being.
There is much more to religion and where they diverge sharply is on doctrine, ritual, mythology, experience, and law. These differences may not matter to you and mystics of religion that you listen to, but they matter to ordinary religious people. Religious differences do not just matter to religious practitioners. They have real effects in the real world. People refuse to marry this Muslim or that Hindu because of them. And in some cases religious differences move adherents to fight and to kill.
God is not one. Faith in the unity of religions is just that--faith (perhaps even a kind of fundamentalism).
(March 1, 2017 at 8:03 am)Little Rik Wrote: I did say the an NDE is remembered in a clear, sharp and vivid way after years and years just as the first day it happened while an hallucination is easily forgotten after a short time.
I get what you say and it does not sound convincing. There are many books on alien abductions where spaceship and beings are describe much more lavish then Storm's so called NDE experience.