Uskonnoton, mitä uskontoa ajatusmaailmasi muistuttaa eniten?

Uskon kummituksiin. Missä uskonnossa niihin uskotaan? 

En ole niin tarkkaan ajatellut. Liekö jotain buddhalaisuuteen päin.

Buddhalaisuus. Elämä on kärsimystä, joka johtuu halusta. Lakkaa haluamasta ja pääse kärsimyksestä.

            oon realisti

Taidan olla lähellä vanhaa suomalaista kansanuskoa.

Ap, kannattatko siis kastijärjestelmää? En voisi ikinä  kuulua uskontoon, jossa ihmiset nähdään eri arvoisina.

Vierailija kirjoitti:

Uskon kummituksiin. Missä uskonnossa niihin uskotaan? 

Ihan ev lutissakin. Kysyin papilta. 

Ovat vissiin pahoja henkiä. 

Enpä ole ajatellut, enkä niin noista edes tiedä. Minusta pitää käyttäytyä muita kohtaan kivasti ja ei saa tehdä pahoja tekoja. Kristinusko siis ehkä?

Jotain buddhalaisuuden ja satanismin väliltä.

Now, what is it about those religious texts, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Baháí, all of these religions that you investigated, why did they not satisfy? You were seeking an explanation for the beginning of the universe. So why did they not satisfy that or comport with that beginning of the universe? 1/3

Well, I first read a textbook on comparative religions, and I noticed that often the critiques of the worlds religions, they put their holy books in the worst possible interpretive light. And I said, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to read these books in the best possible interpretive light, give them the benefit of the doubt, wherever that appears. But what I discovered with the Hindu Vedas, for example, even when you put it in the best interpretive light, there are serious problems. I mean, the Vedas talk about how the universe has repeated beginnings every 4.32 billion years, and I knew that the number 4.32 was wrong. We have measurements that prove that it's wrong. And this idea that the universe reincarnates. Most people know that Hinduism has this belief of the reincarnation of humans and animals, but it's fundamentally based on the idea that the universe reincarnates. But I knew that the entropy of the universe was at least 100 million times too high for there to be any possible mechanism to reincarnate the universe. So I said, Hey, this is not the pathway to the one that created the universe.

And I did the same thing with the Buddhist commentaries. I looked at the Quran. I looked at the Mormon writings. I looked at Baháí.

But that was all before I really looked at the Bible. But what struck me when I first picked up that Gideon Bible, going through the first page, Genesis 1, for six days God creates. On the seventh day he stops creating. And I noticed that, for the first six days, you have them closed out by, evening was, morning was, day two, three, four, et cetera. So I said, Its telling me each of these days has a start time and an end time. But when I got to day seven, there's no evening, morning phase, and that's the day when God stops creating.

So I remember going through the rest of the Bible quickly and discovered Psalm 95 and Hebrews 4, which basically exhort us humans to enter into God's day of rest. So I said, The day of rest is ongoing, and that explains the fossil record enigma, why we see all these new phyla, classes, and orders appearing before humanity, but none whatsoever after humanity.  The six days are referring to the eras before humans. The seventh day is the human era.

2/3

And so, ever since I was eleven, I was plagued by this enigma. And just looking at the first page of the Bible, I said, This answers the fossil record enigma. And also I spent 4 hours going through the Genesis 1 creation account, and again, part of it is that I was steeped in the scientific method. In the Canadian public education system, we were taught it in grade one, grade two, all the way through to grade twelve. But none of my public school teachers told me where the scientific method came from. When I began to go through that Gideon Bible, looking at the creation text, I said, This is the scientific method. This is where it came from. Because, when you look at Genesis 1, what it tells you is a frame of reference for the six days of creation. It's God hovering over the surface of the waters, and it gives you the initial conditions as dark on the waters. The waters cover the whole surface. The Earth is empty of life and unfit for life. Well, those are steps one and two of the scientific method: Don't interpret until you have first established the frame of reference. Don't interpret until you have first established starting conditions. That's right there in Genesis 1:2. And from that point of view you go through the six days of creation, and I realized everything here is correctly stated, and everything is in the correct chronological order when compared with established science.

And long before that I'd looked at the Enuma Elish of the Babylonians. I looked at the creation text in the Quran, in the Buddhist commentaries, in the Vedas, and it's like they got almost nothing right. The best I found outside of the Bible was a creation text that got 2 out of 14, 2 right, 12 wrong. The Bible got everything right and put everything in the correct chronological order.

And so that began an 18-month study. Now, I knew my parents would be disturbed if they knew I was studying Christianity and the Bible to that degree. So I waited till midnight. Basically it was between midnight and about 1:00 or 1:30 in the morning where I'd have my bedroom door closed, and I'd be secretly studying the Bible and did that every night for an 18-month period. But after those 18 months, I recognized, When I put the Bible in the best possible interpretive light, I cannot find a single error or contradiction. And that persuaded me. This book is not just written by human beings. It must be inspired by the One that created the universe.

3/3

And so it was at age 19, I signed my name in the back of the Gideon Bible, committing my life to Jesus Christ. But to be frank, it wasn't just me checking out the science. I also checked out the fulfilled prophecies in the Bible. And I think what really struck me when I first began through the Bible was the elegance and the beauty of its moral message. Because all the holy books have a moral message, but they pale in comparison to the elegance, the consistency, and the beauty of what you see in the Bible.

And one of the things I did during those 18 months is say, I'm going to do everything I can to live up to this moral message. It's so beautiful. But the harder I tried, the more I realized I couldn't do it.

And I need to give credit to the Gideons. They tell you exactly what you need to do once you become persuaded that what you're reading is the inspired inerrant word of God. And they have a page there where they say The primary message is, We humans need God. We cannot live up to His moral standard, but God is willing to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. He's willing to trade His moral perfection for our moral imperfection, and I also appreciated what they were saying is that the Creator of the universe knows better than we do what's best for us. So it only makes rational sense to make the Creator of the universe the boss of your life. And of course, they describe how the Creator of the universe came to Planet Earth as a human being, demonstrated a life of moral perfection, proved that He was God through the miracles He performed, and yet willingly sacrificed His life so that we can be delivered from the consequences of our sin. So I remember thinking to myself, This is an offer that's too good to turn down, so I signed my name on the back of that Gideon Bible, committing my life to Jesus Christ.

En tiedä, uskonto on turhaa.

Jaa-ah, varmaankin satanismi olisi lähinnä, mutta pidän kyllä itseäni ihan vaan uskonnottomana, koska asia on itselleni täysin merkityksetön.

Vierailija kirjoitti:

Buddhalaisuus. Elämä on kärsimystä, joka johtuu halusta. Lakkaa haluamasta ja pääse kärsimyksestä.

Elämä on ihanaa kun sen oikein oivaltaa. Krtistinusko on tässäkin suhteessa muuten etulyönti-asemassa, ei tarvitse itse ponnistella 'valaistumisen' eteen, työ on jo tehty ihmisen puolesta:

'Tulkaa minun luokseni, kaikki te työn ja kuormien uuvuttamat. Minä annan teille levon. Ottakaa minun ikeeni harteillenne ja katsokaa minua: minä olen sydämeltäni lempeä ja nöyrä. Näin teidän sielunne löytää levon. Minun ikeeni on hyvä kantaa ja minun kuormani on kevyt.'

'Älkää olko mistään huolissanne, vaan saattakaa aina se, mitä tarvitsette, rukoillen, anoen ja kiittäen Jumalan tietoon. Silloin Jumalan rauha, joka ylittää kaiken ymmärryksen, varjelee teidän sydämenne ja ajatuksenne, niin että pysytte Kristuksessa Jeesuksessa.'

Vierailija kirjoitti:

Vierailija kirjoitti:

Buddhalaisuus. Elämä on kärsimystä, joka johtuu halusta. Lakkaa haluamasta ja pääse kärsimyksestä.

Elämä on ihanaa kun sen oikein oivaltaa. Kristinusko on tässäkin suhteessa muuten etulyönti-asemassa, ei tarvitse itse ponnistella 'valaistumisen' eteen, työ on jo tehty ihmisen puolesta:

'Tulkaa minun luokseni, kaikki te työn ja kuormien uuvuttamat. Minä annan teille levon. Ottakaa minun ikeeni harteillenne ja katsokaa minua: minä olen sydämeltäni lempeä ja nöyrä. Näin teidän sielunne löytää levon. Minun ikeeni on hyvä kantaa ja minun kuormani on kevyt.'

'Älkää olko mistään huolissanne, vaan saattakaa aina se, mitä tarvitsette, rukoillen, anoen ja kiittäen Jumalan tietoon. Silloin Jumalan rauha, joka ylittää kaiken ymmärryksen, varjelee teidän sydämenne ja ajatuksenne, niin että pysytte Kristuksess

Siis kristinusko.