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OK, now I'm going to have to go read the book. I thought I'd read most Dr. Seus, but I haven't read that one.

You know, it's dawned on me as I've read your posts in this thread over again that I should ask you what your view of heaven is. I've been responding to you assuming that you have the "standard Christian" view of heaven, with people, maybe a city with pearly gates. :rolleyes: And everybody up...

YES! Good way to put it. :)

ROFLMAO! :D

Very well put and I totally agree. Perhaps the only wording I would change would be the underlined portion above (and that is only semantics). "I believe it is God's Spirit that must be encountered in order to be led towards the target." I know I can't do it on my own. :)

I understand and appreciate that. I don't agree with it, but I have no problem with it. :) In my little philosophical mind I would say that, in those cultures, reality is "God" (as that reality had no beginning). I know they wouldn't say that, but from a philosophical standpoint, that is how it...

Wow. That gave me the chills. Awesome.

Oh good god no! Please don't! :p

Great post Ruby. I'm not sure where to start. Let's see ... Regarding atonement theology - payment to an angry God. As I understand it, this was actually not the original view of the Church. The Eastern Orthodox church doesn't hold this view, and you can't get much more "orthodox" than...

I'm not arguing that such a place doesn't exist. Perhaps it does. And I'm not arguing against our going there. Perhaps we do. It's just my opinion that a place with no change, with no free will, sounds like hell, not heaven.

What or who would the polytheists that you know say created or emanated the "many Gods?" Do they even think about it? Where did those Gods come from? Either they are self existent, or they were created. If they were not created / emanated, then they had no first cause. You don't have any...

You have a kindred spirit in me Ruby. I'm desperately trying to hang on to Christianity as a path and Christ as Lord and inspiration. It's tough. It's ironic that I posted what I did about Wicca needing boundaries to define it, as Christianity needs boundaries to define it, because my view of...

No need to apologize Saltmeister. I understood your point. You stayed within the boundaries of the rules (imo). I'm the one that dragged the thread sideways (because I thought it was in the Belief section).

Are you saying that Christians don't worship the Father thru the Son? I've never heard this before. Seriously. I'm not being flip. It is a totally new idea to me. "But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is...

I got two new Tarot decks this past week. One is the Druidcraft Tarot (which I stumbled across indirectly because of Path of One's comments about OBOD). I love it. Very intuitive.

I'm trying to figure out for sure what you mean by what you've said above. Are you saying that you are polytheistic and that you think polytheism is true? Or are you saying that you think all religions are polytheistic?

You know it!

I am so very sorry dear moderator Q, I did not realize I was in the Christianity forum. I used the "new posts" feature to find this thread and then didn't check. Ruby got the central thought to all my rambling about Wicca, which was "A person who wants to be identified as a Christian has some...

Yup. That's what I meant by saying that we are the little line that exists between the yin and the yang in my post above. The word "opposites," in this metaphysical sense, could mean something like male and female, for example. Not strict opposites in the way Westerners commonly understand the...

As I'm not Wiccan, I have absolutely no issues with bgruabach's views. :) My perspective comes not from "If Gardner taught it, it must be absolutely true," but that if it looks like a duck, but walks, eats and sexually reproduces like a horse, it's probably not a duck. If a coven splinters and...