Raised in the Southern Baptist church, rebelled at an early age, mostly agnostic bordering on atheist for years, especially through my alcoholic years... found AA and a spiritual way to live, finally came to understand that some Higher Power had been guiding my life all along, and here many years later, 33 years clean and sober, have found God again. That's the Reader's Digest version.
I’ll see your being brought up in a Southern Baptist Church and raise you a Reformed Southern Baptist upbringing.😜😂 While I love my parents dearly and I really do believe they are both genuine Christians as evident by the way they live their lives, Reformed Southern Baptist churches are something I am very glad to not be involved with anymore to say the least. My childhood best friend and I have had many discussions of how we’ve had to deprogram ourselves from the “cult like” mentality of the church we were raised in. I ascribe to the fundamental and basic theology I was raised with, but the actual function of the church (for lack of a better way to describe it) is what I disagree with. I have watched almost every single person I grew up with in my childhood church “lose their way” and so far, not many of them have found their way back. By the grace of God, He opened my eyes after my daughter was born.
Interesting. Well, like I said, there are just as many different paths to God as there are people seeking Him. Every single person has a unique set of circumstance, personality, spiritual depth, spiritual calling, life crises, and so on. It's almost like God has laid out our individual paths from birth, knowing exactly what each of us need to get to Him.
I personally believe strongly in Reincarnation. I believe that all religious paths are ‘but ways to feel the elephant’ if you follow my bad metaphor. If asked, I will respond I am a Christian as that is the path most appealing to me, however I am in no way dogmatic and do not believe in the “must do’s” of traditional Christian religions. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. I believe God is able to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and is the still, small voice within. The grandness of existence is impossible to put into human terms or words. If you find a way that works for you and harms no one else, then that is what is most important, IMO. I do not worry about my soul at death. I believe I shall arrive with full awareness to one of God’s many mansions.
We all come to fairh in our separate, unique ways. You would be amazed at how I came to mine.
Raised in the Southern Baptist church, rebelled at an early age, mostly agnostic bordering on atheist for years, especially through my alcoholic years... found AA and a spiritual way to live, finally came to understand that some Higher Power had been guiding my life all along, and here many years later, 33 years clean and sober, have found God again. That's the Reader's Digest version.
I’ll see your being brought up in a Southern Baptist Church and raise you a Reformed Southern Baptist upbringing.😜😂 While I love my parents dearly and I really do believe they are both genuine Christians as evident by the way they live their lives, Reformed Southern Baptist churches are something I am very glad to not be involved with anymore to say the least. My childhood best friend and I have had many discussions of how we’ve had to deprogram ourselves from the “cult like” mentality of the church we were raised in. I ascribe to the fundamental and basic theology I was raised with, but the actual function of the church (for lack of a better way to describe it) is what I disagree with. I have watched almost every single person I grew up with in my childhood church “lose their way” and so far, not many of them have found their way back. By the grace of God, He opened my eyes after my daughter was born.
Interesting. Well, like I said, there are just as many different paths to God as there are people seeking Him. Every single person has a unique set of circumstance, personality, spiritual depth, spiritual calling, life crises, and so on. It's almost like God has laid out our individual paths from birth, knowing exactly what each of us need to get to Him.
I personally believe strongly in Reincarnation. I believe that all religious paths are ‘but ways to feel the elephant’ if you follow my bad metaphor. If asked, I will respond I am a Christian as that is the path most appealing to me, however I am in no way dogmatic and do not believe in the “must do’s” of traditional Christian religions. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. I believe God is able to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and is the still, small voice within. The grandness of existence is impossible to put into human terms or words. If you find a way that works for you and harms no one else, then that is what is most important, IMO. I do not worry about my soul at death. I believe I shall arrive with full awareness to one of God’s many mansions.