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How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways?

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How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways?
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RE: How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways?
November 20, 2017 at 12:26 pm (This post was last modified: November 20, 2017 at 12:29 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 20, 2017 at 11:48 am)Greatest I am Wrote:
(November 20, 2017 at 11:44 am)Whateverist Wrote: You will be mocked for this but I personally think it is better theology to seek to follow Jesus in the sense of transforming your own life than it is to pine for the opportunity to lick God's balls.

I agree but there are more than one Jesus that speaks to us through scriptures and I follow the way this one teaches. You will note that the church never quotes this one as they know that he preaches for freedom and not the slavery that Christianity preaches for.

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
 
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
 
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRNbesf...r_embedded

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Well that is interesting.  So my next probing question would like to flesh out the nature of the experience you have in mind here where I've bolded:

"Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."

I wonder whether you're expecting something wooey/supernatural or if you interpret it figuratively as alluding to something a zen buddhist might describe as satori.  Or maybe you have something psychological in mind like Jung's integration?
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RE: How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways? - by Whateverist - November 20, 2017 at 12:26 pm

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