haha, it's great you are kind of like 'coloring outside the lines'. What a cool quest to be on, with an open mind and heart.
I once had an extremely intelligent/gifted Jewish artist friend, who also loved to pray the Rosary.
He was also an Anthroposophist' (a kind of human-as-divine-template centered, esoteric philosophy akin to theosophy) - which some people at first glance might condemn on the surface. But - he also loved and followed Jesus' teachings, and especially loved celebrating Christmas!
Then there's that lama Rasaji guy from 'The Patriot and the Lama'. He calls himself a 'Taoist, metaphysical, Catholic, Christian believer'. He's profoundly trained in several marshall arts and is a Tai' Chi Gung 'master lama' - and - he totally LOVES Jesus as a Christian.
God seems to have a sense of humor about humankind's 'doctrinal orthodoxy', i.e. God 'looks at the heart' more than any mistakes in people's understanding. Well Jesus did tell his disciples, 'Those who are not against us, are with us' (as well as its paradoxical opposite(!) Leaving us to just kind of 'go figure' (?)
So maybe it's kind of like what Q says, 'Expand your thinking'. :) Toward a Great Awakening. Along with what St. Paul said: 'Test everything, retain all that's Good'.
haha, it's great you're kind of like 'coloring outside the lines'. What a cool quest you seem to be on.
I once had an extremely intelligent/gifted Jewish artist friend, who also loved to pray the Rosary.
He was also an Anthroposophist' (a kind of human-as-divine-template centered, esoteric philosophy akin to theosophy) - which some people at first glance might condemn on the surface. But - he also loved and followed Jesus' teachings, and especially loved celebrating Christmas!
Then there's that lama Rasaji guy from 'The Patriot and the Lama'. He calls himself a 'Taoist, metaphysical, Catholic, Christian believer'. He's profoundly trained in several marshall arts and is a Tai' Chi Gung 'master lama' - and - he totally LOVES Jesus as a Christian.
God seems to have a sense of humor about humankind's 'doctrinal orthodoxy', i.e. God 'looks at the heart' more than any mistakes in people's understanding. Well Jesus did tell his disciples, 'Those who are not against us, are with us' (as well as its paradoxical opposite(!) Leaving us to just kind of 'go figure' (?)
So maybe it's kind of like what Q says, 'Expand your thinking'. :) Toward a Great Awakening. Along with what St. Paul said: 'Test everything, retain all that's Good'.
haha, it's great you're kind of like 'coloring outside the lines'. What a cool quest you seem to be on.
I once had an extremely intelligent/gifted Jewish artist friend, who also loved to pray the Rosary.
He was also an Anthroposophist' (a kind of human-as-divine-template centered, esoteric philosophy akin to theosophy) - which some people at first glance might condemn on the surface. But - he also loved and followed Jesus' teachings, and especially loved celebrating Christmas!
Then there's that lama Rasaji guy from 'The Patriot and the Lama'. He calls himself a 'Taoist, metaphysical, Catholic, Christian believer'. He's profoundly trained in several marshall arts and is a Tai' Chi Gung 'master lama' - and - he totally LOVES Jesus as a Christian.
God seems to have a sense of humor about humankind's 'doctrinal orthodoxy', i.e. God 'looks at the heart' more than any mistakes in people's understanding. Well Jesus did tell his disciples, 'Those who are not against us, are with us' (as well as its paradoxical opposite(!) Leaving us to just kind of 'go figure' (?)
So maybe it's kind of like what Q says, 'Expand your thinking'. :) Toward a Great Awakening. Along with what St. Paul said: 'Test everything, retain all that's Good'.