Momma Angel wrote:Queen Annie,
It seems the major difference is you don't seem to believe you have to accept Christ as the Son of God? Am I correct?
Not at all. I'm puzzled as to how you got that idea.
Quote:If you are so aware of what God is, as you seem to be, can you tell me exactly why you don't think Jesus is the Son of God? This is, afterall, what the Bible says.
He certainly is, the Son of the Living God. Living is the key word, to me. And believing that involves believing in the resurrection.
Now, most people misunderstand what resurrection is--they confuse some sort of zombie thing with 'raising the dead.' I often get this mental image of all these freshly newly-livened corpses rising out of the ground when some people talk about it. Not you, but others. I have a somewhat odd sensitive empathy.
But resurrection is not a bodily thing, it is a spiritual thing--the dead that is raised is the spiritual self. And reincarnation is, of course, an existing soul in a new body. But most people get these two mixed up and make something altogether new.
The part of man that is resurrected is the very same part that died when Adam and Eve transgressed in the garden of Eden. They died that day spiritually, and 900 or so years later, died their
second death--the physical death. In the terms of Genesis and Revelation, the 'dead' are what we consider those who are 'living.' But it's backwards, that way, and probably why it doesn't always make a lot of sense.
I do not doubt God raised Christ from the dead; but this was not a precursor, but a demonstration to the disciples, who were even in a more material orientation back then than we are today, that God is a Living God and is the source of all life, spiritual and physical, and is in command of life.
Quote:I don't know if you accept the Bible the same way I do or not, so I am trying not to presume anything.
I understand. I never mind questions, at all.
I will always give an answer and I will never be offended, so don't ever hesitate.
I'm not sure what you mean by accepting the bible in the same way as you--I venture to say that probably that is not possible to know. I have complete trust in the basic tenets that christianity puts forth, but on a different level--that is, not in such a material perspective, if that makes sense. However, that doesn't mean I have trust in christianity, itself. But I started out materially, I just have been brought quite a ways in my life, so far, in regard to my understandings of these things. However, nothing has ever rearranged itself, just deepened. The ground floor hasn't changed, just gotten farther down, so to speak.
