http://www.juandent.com Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.juandent.com/2010/01/28/regarding-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-14 mari Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:03:33 +0000 http://www.juandent.com/?p=21#comment-14 Yes, humans usually try to understand God in relation to their physical world and to what they can understand, not aware of all the limitations they have;I think we must love God with our heart and not with our minds. I really liked your reply!! Yes, humans usually try to understand God in relation to their physical world and to what they can understand, not aware of all the limitations they have;I think we must love God with our heart and not with our minds. I really liked your reply!!

]]> http://www.juandent.com/2010/01/28/regarding-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-13 admin Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:46:53 +0000 http://www.juandent.com/?p=21#comment-13 All I am saying is that the <strong>physical</strong> manifestation of our brain, i.e. our mind, is gone at death... something goes on as a glorified body but not in this physical world. We go on in God's presence, but for Him time and space are useless. Both are concepts we need in the physical world, but God is present everywhere and always: He spans all eternity. So being with Him is not a physical experience, we will not be near Him as distance makes no sense. This is why I prefer to think of a state of Peace, rather than a "place", because thinking of a place forces us to carry over all our current physical limitations. As regarding God's justice, I often reflect on the difference in tone between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The first one presented an angry and sometimes revengeful God, one very much similar to man in this respect. The God of the New Testament has an altogether different approach. He comes preaching forgiveness and summing up all commandments into the most transforming power on Earth: Love. Christ did not eliminate the Commandments but he presented a very different way to follow them. Christ's response to the woman found in adultery was too perfect to be fully accepted and understood. His Heart and His Wisdom are Boundless. He guides us away from our mistakes and brings His love to our troubled hearts so that we might turn to Him and ask for forgiveness. He Converts, He does not Condemn. As incredible as forgiveness of the thief on the cross heavy with guilt, Christ always finds how to pull us in. So, for me, the horrors of purgatory and hell have been something humanity has needed to correct its lost ways, just as one scares children when they cannot see the consequences of their actions. But, they have been a means to an end and not end itself. I cannot see the point in eternal damnation - it does not fix anything. All I can see in this respect is that evil is the absence of good and that only that portion of us that is good, will be present in the resurrection. All I am saying is that the physical manifestation of our brain, i.e. our mind, is gone at death… something goes on as a glorified body but not in this physical world. We go on in God’s presence, but for Him time and space are useless. Both are concepts we need in the physical world, but God is present everywhere and always: He spans all eternity. So being with Him is not a physical experience, we will not be near Him as distance makes no sense. This is why I prefer to think of a state of Peace, rather than a “place”, because thinking of a place forces us to carry over all our current physical limitations. As regarding God’s justice, I often reflect on the difference in tone between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The first one presented an angry and sometimes revengeful God, one very much similar to man in this respect. The God of the New Testament has an altogether different approach. He comes preaching forgiveness and summing up all commandments into the most transforming power on Earth: Love. Christ did not eliminate the Commandments but he presented a very different way to follow them. Christ’s response to the woman found in adultery was too perfect to be fully accepted and understood. His Heart and His Wisdom are Boundless. He guides us away from our mistakes and brings His love to our troubled hearts so that we might turn to Him and ask for forgiveness. He Converts, He does not Condemn. As incredible as forgiveness of the thief on the cross heavy with guilt, Christ always finds how to pull us in. So, for me, the horrors of purgatory and hell have been something humanity has needed to correct its lost ways, just as one scares children when they cannot see the consequences of their actions. But, they have been a means to an end and not end itself. I cannot see the point in eternal damnation – it does not fix anything. All I can see in this respect is that evil is the absence of good and that only that portion of us that is good, will be present in the resurrection.

]]> http://www.juandent.com/2010/01/28/regarding-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-12 mari Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:40:12 +0000 http://www.juandent.com/?p=21#comment-12 So, what about the people that don't believe in God and are very bad people on Earth; will they enjoy the same state of Peace after death since everybody's mind/soul will be turned off the same way? So, what about the people that don’t believe in God and are very bad people on Earth; will they enjoy the same state of Peace after death since everybody’s mind/soul will be turned off the same way?

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