I don't think you're wrong; I'm not attempting to correct you. I don't think this is a case of right/wrong, nor do I think most things are. To want to find someone wrong in order to prove your (general you, not you personally) beliefs right is not something Jesus taught was proper. Dogma and all aside, what Christians are generally expected to do is follow the teaching's of Jesus. The need to prove other people wrong often demonstrates an immense lack of security in one's beliefs. It irritates me when I catch myself behaving as if its the proper way to conduct myself, and it often means I need to spend more time being deliberately conscious of my relationship with God.
Since it came up in the thread you linked to, I will mention that I use belief to mean "something I've accepted as true based on any mixture of my own experience, studying, instinct, perception, etc-- which necessitates that no other person will have the same 'beliefs' as I do. This means, by definition, there is no reason for me to get upset if people don't believe as I do. We're blind, and and everything is an elephant (http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade7/india/Blind_elephant.html).
I do think that the Christians you've talked to are primarily the more conservative ones, and they tend to be the more vocal, simply because the most mindful of liberal Christians will not discredit your relationship with God.
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Date: 2004-04-12 06:48 am (UTC)Since it came up in the thread you linked to, I will mention that I use belief to mean "something I've accepted as true based on any mixture of my own experience, studying, instinct, perception, etc-- which necessitates that no other person will have the same 'beliefs' as I do. This means, by definition, there is no reason for me to get upset if people don't believe as I do. We're blind, and and everything is an elephant (http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade7/india/Blind_elephant.html).
I do think that the Christians you've talked to are primarily the more conservative ones, and they tend to be the more vocal, simply because the most mindful of liberal Christians will not discredit your relationship with God.