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I am not talking about Buddists. But since you brought it up, tell me: WHO told you, you have an "ego"?
Peace
I was trying to figure out what you were talking about and it kind of reminded me of what few Buddhist things I have read. Your above response to Trout shed some light on it. It looks like you are more talking about locus of control. Am I understanding you correctly that you have an external locus of control and believe God is responsible for personal development and it's less on the efforts of the individual? I have a very high internal locus of control and I am more "get off ur ass" and if you need help ask for it but first and foremost "get off ur ass". That doesn't work all too often by the way.
No one had to tell me I have an ego. I can see how much lipstick I am going through.
Hmmm.... we need law in the death realm to restrain evil. That's all I will say about that.
Except, as I recall, I believe the scripture says somewhere: "The LAW is GOOD when used LAWFULLY." But the law has certainly been abused a lot as well.
Mystic, you know that obedience has a blessing with it. I would not tell people to disobey their consciences.
The only way to not have fear( a fear due to a poor image of God we've held) before God is to have confidence before him. How have you confidence before him?.
Yup...So, your "they follow the rules out of fear" idea fails...
And another one who can't see and value the idea of a principle as the animating force for imperfect laws and the value of following the principle as opposed to those laws when the laws express that principle wrongly.
Seriously, Chanokh, look up "unprincipled" and compare it to "lawless."
Alright, suppose my principles are different than yours?...
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that the trouble may be that you are not paying attention when the nature of "agape" is explained.
13For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. 14For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”c 15But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.
Love your neighbor as yourself is expressed in the Torah...So, nothing new...
The laws can NEVER express spiritual princiles fully and many people don't understand this, going off on the letter ratheer that the principle intended.
You don't seem to understand this.
Rhe letter kills but the Spirit gives life.
You don't understand "the letter kills", you are just parroting the writer who wrote that...
It wasn't meant to kill the flesh, it was meant to point us away to something that would cause us to live in peace and harmony in this hell hole we call earth........ To be spiritually minded is life and peace
Hmmm...Doesn't seem to be working...
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