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In reply to the discussion: Is my faith the correct faith? Are other faiths wrong? [View all]sprinkleeninow
(20,212 posts)87. In all honesty, I don't know this thread of which you speak.
I can only answer for my own short-comings and 'passions' (virtue adverse).
Following the encouragment by first having received the gift of salvation, we aren't left vulnerable and in 'open season'. We are afforded the saving grace of repentance.
In Greek, 'Metanoia', 'turning from', the conscious and voluntary repelling of any falling short that our inner witness 'suggests' against.
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'Hell' is a state of being, not a physical/geographical place/location like your residential address
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2018
#39
I hold that this hell is a state of the soul that is separated or will be from God, but that it is
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2018
#89
I am talking here about the terms correct or incorrect as they apply to faith.
guillaumeb
Feb 2018
#49
Most religions believe quite sincerely that theirs is the only true belief.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Feb 2018
#9
"I would say that they too are following a different path. Not better, not worse. Just different."
trotsky
Feb 2018
#12
guillaumeb's "spirit" thinks that deliberately spreading falsehoods is a good thing.
trotsky
Feb 2018
#65
So you want to shut down any real debate here and insist on harmony among posters?
guillaumeb
Feb 2018
#147
Like when you accused me on multiple occasions of defining Christianity for everyone
guillaumeb
Feb 2018
#152
What this shows is your inability or unwillingness to admit what you are doing.
guillaumeb
Feb 2018
#172
I see that you are not willing to apologize to those you hurt. You will go on hurting.
trotsky
Feb 2018
#179
When we engage in dialogue, what was said in the past is also a part of what is currently
guillaumeb
Feb 2018
#192
My claim is supported by your posts here, and the number of people who have taken you to task.
trotsky
Feb 2018
#194
"...some completely co-opt a human desire for spirituality by twisting it into something very..ugly"
trotsky
Feb 2018
#55
In Eastern Orthodoxy: "We know where the Church is, but we do not know where it is not."
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2018
#70
Well, I simply 'relished' the 'fragrance' of your post! 😍 Lovely, like aroma therapy!
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2018
#74