"Every Morning We Are Born Again. What We Do Today is What Matters Most."

[SoCalbound12]

Originally Posted by Ilene Wright

Oh I beg to differ. We are born again when we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and what we do today is what gets counted against us or for us in the long run in the books of heaven. Everything we do or say is being monitored.

[MysticPhD]

Originally Posted by Mercury Cougar

What a sad existence. I'm not scared at all. I have a wonderful life, half of which is still ahead of me (barring an early death for some reason) and I don't fear death. I don't fear being judged after I die. Religion is based on fear and negative reinforcement. Such a sad, narrow view of life when there's so much more out here to experience. I vary between feeling pity and contempt for someone so immersed in their illusions that they're actually scared.

I know enough about Ilene to know that she was using a common idiom . . .not talking about any real fear. You cannot know the love of God and have any fear. Ilene knows the love of God. The judgment issue is so strongly indoctrinated into religious concepts of God that it is difficult to change. The existence of CONSEQUENCES does not require the existence of judgment. Violate the "law" of gravity and there are consequences. It is no different for any other "law" of existence established by God's consciousness (the universal field) which includes "laws" of life and consciousness.

[QuixoticHobbit]

Originally Posted by Ilene Wright

Oh I beg to differ. We are born again when we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and what we do today is what gets counted against us or for us in the long run in the books of heaven. Everything we do or say is being monitored.

So basically you're saying we live in a cosmic dictatorship, with your god as a celestial version of Kim Jung Il