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Fifty years ago I decided to take Spinoza's word literally and live accordingly. He said that God is actually nature itself. As the years went by, that understanding made a lot of sense to me and it puzzled me why this type of thinking had not caught on, as

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Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Reasons not to believe in God: 5 of 188

Yes, there are many reasons for some people not to believe in God. A great many people do not believe in God at all, because they were introduced in childhood to think that God is an angry person with a whip. In my very young years I was told about a God that threatened me with hell. To me he was a person with a pissed off lo... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) What are good choices to live by: 1 of 12

An excellent question requiring a number of explanations. The answers should reflect a wisdom applicable to each and everyone. We can reach for the usual religious writings and try to find verses that gives us examples we can emulate. Religious books can be inspiring and a lifetime can be devoted reading them, however, after ... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God God and time: 1 of 10

Familiarity with God and time is a certainty acquired over 50 years of adult living. God exist and this is an instruction how to get to understand that God exist. This is for people tired of reading the bible or other religious books, tired to go to churches, synagogues or mosques etc. This is for people with a very flexible ... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Adolescence How to parent teens: Tips from teenagers: 4 of 15

I was a teenager once and reflected on that many times by thinking:"Why did my parents not prepare me better or inform me about other characters out there"? By "characters" I mean persons who think and act entirely different than I would. That lack of knowledge caused me to expect that everyone acts and reacts like me. Of cou... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Could Christianity survive without the Bible?: 27 of 86

It most certainly can.Christianity as such has nothing to do with a bible and everything with Jesus. The bible is just a continues metaphor but what Jesus' attitude stood for is real.What Jesus stood for is also written in other books, mostly in Greek. Jesus represent joy, love, acceptance, blessing and gratefulness and a bib... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Contemplating the existence of God: 59 of 174

After living for 50 years as an adult, I never doubted the existence of God for one minute.The first 15 years of my live is another story, God scared the crap out of me because my mentors of the Christian faith threatened me, if not paying attention, hell would be waiting.As a citizen of the Netherlands, 18 year old boys are ... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Doctrine & Issues Christian understanding of conversion: 3 of 8
Baptized as a Christian at the age of 4 months and my parent send me to Christian schools for education till grade 8. In other words I had nothing to do with the decision to be a Christian. Up to the age of fourteen I was not impressed being a Christian at all. My parents had endless debates about the biblical interpretations... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Spiritual Insights Who is God?: 29 of 73

Who is God? Philosophers stated before that God is nature, and when those philosophers reasoned that to be true, there was something missing. If it was that simple that God is nature, why did this idea not catch on in our collective minds? Was there no proof or did it not catch our imagination?It is only in the last 100 years... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Is God an invention of man's mind or true being?: 49 of 121

Only adults struggle with these kind of questions, as opposed to any other living organism, and human nature is, to seek answers to all things questionable. God is in the mind of people only, so to argue that God is not a true being is like trying to avoid reality. God is, according to one dictionary a supreme being, another ... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Doctrine & Issues Christian understanding of how to 'be like Christ': 17 of 40

To be Christ like is a tall order, let me remove the notion that His Mother Mary was a virgin after his birth and also that he, as special as he was, not be a son of a super human being. He meant to say that he was a son of God the same as you and I are children of God. I take you back 2000 years to discover why Jesus came to... More..