Your belief after leaving JW (page 26)

jgnat

Trinidad is a beautiful country. I grew up there.

I believe all of us recognize our own lives experience change. Our circumstances change as well over the course of time and aging.

I have found that in different periods of my life, I have experienced varying degrees of curiosity, determination and personal need for discovering life's truths, origins, spirituality, etc.

After some terrible events, I am currently in the process of recovering on many levels. Lately, I feel lees inclined to require definitive answers and more content to merely accept the environment and circumstances I cannot re-create or change, thus, I am leaning more and more towards atheism and departing from my agnostic views.

This may obviously change based on the introduction of new information in the future, or it may stagnate into low priority space. Who knows? Can we ever really be absolute about any truth?

One truth I do know on a personal level, and that is that death is a terrible, tragic, asd, depressing and discouraging event and no matter how natural or the circumstances, it is never painless.

jgnat

Utopian Reformist, you are the living example of a heart rising from the ashes. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see you posting around the board.

sunshine2

So can other religious denominations come to this church. How will they all agree if each person has a different idea?

yes, there are many people going there, that also attend other churches as well.....they do not focus on getting everybody to believe the same, they really just say that God is EVERYWHERE, so it does not matter HOW you worship him....they focus on being positive, treating neighors as oneself and so on. No pressure whatsoever.

I attended one of their "Bibleclasses"...people just talk like in a talkshow....no script. The "Reverend" voices his opinion, but does not force it on anybody.

There seems to be no need to agree on bibleteachings, as long as we focus on positive behaviours in our lives. They don't take Jesus' teachings literal.....not "What would Jesus do", but "How did Jesus do it"....by listening to his inner voice so to say......like I said I've only been twice, but it feels good, that's all that matters to me at the moment. And the fact that they say there is no one right religion, all are ok, as long as we try to become better people. It does not necessarily need to be christendom either.

daystar

That sounds rather refreshing, sunshine.

joelbear

life goes on, live it.

Utopian Reformist

Thx JGNAT & Joelbear! I consider you both two very "old" and dear friends! Yes, life does continue even when we are still, the clocks keep moving and so does everything/one else, so I've come to see.

hibiscusfire

Sunshine2:

yes, there are many people going there, that also attend other churches as well.....they do not focus on getting everybody to believe the same, they really just say that God is EVERYWHERE, so it does not matter HOW you worship him....they focus on being positive, treating neighors as oneself and so on. No pressure whatsoever.

So if God is everywhere wha is this God and what does HE do?

They don't take Jesus' teachings literal.....not "What would Jesus do", but "How did Jesus do it"....by listening to his inner voice so to say......like I said I've only been twice, but it feels good, that's all that matters to me at the moment

So Jesus is not considered to be God then who is HE?

Hibiscusfire

hibiscusfire

Funky: Trinidad perhaps?

Not telling.

I prefer not to reveal the beautiful country where I live because it’s going down the drain because of the ugly people

Hibiscusfire

hibiscusfire

JGNAT: I love that picture. Beautiful.

Hibie

Your belief after leaving JW

So if God is everywhere wha is this God and what does HE do?

So Jesus is not considered to be God then who is HE?

Hibiscusfire

Hibiscusfire

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