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Christian free will doesn't the fact that christianity if full of morality, and holds the concepts of judgement by God leading to Heaven and Hell Kinda insinuate that we have free will? If we have no free will, then its seems that being sent to Hell for the actions that God made us commit...

glad about the lack of pomposity... :) found this Interview with Ramesh Balsekar - an avaita vedanta teacher - about the whole free-will/determinism debate. pretty interesting! http://www.wie.org/j14/balsekar.asp?scr=1 enjoy!

Just found the site where i read it. A discordian website, so cant be sure of the reliability... they say: The Cult of Aten has many followers, including Muslims, Christians, and Jews, most of whom do so unknowningly. The Cult of Aten can be traced back to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, who...

I read somewhere that the semitic religions (is semitic the right word? - i mean Judaism/Christianity/Islam) are based on an ancient egyptian sect... The idea (as far as i can remember) goes that there was a sect in egypt who worshipped a specific god (name forgotten) from the egyptian...

So. It seems we float down streams... It seems like a confusing little idea, this free-will. (but would we be discussing it if it weren't?!? :) ) I agree with the 'divine will'/Ultimate tao/stream kinda thing.. i think there is a part of us that is always in the stream. this might be...

For me, it seems the question 'can spirituality be taught?' is best answered with a nice rounded Mu! It's like learning to drive - You can buy a car and just sit there for a few days/weeks trying all the different pedals and levers 'till you've figured it out - its pretty hard, and will take a...

As a newbie to the site, i feel it my duty to give a slighty off-kilter answer to this thread... If i could be around at any time for jesus' life, i guess it would have to be the crucifixion... I'd love to try to chop down jesus' crucifix. just to see what he would say. Would he have a feel...