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Unfolding freedom: Favorite quotes...
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Sunday, December 17, 2006. 8206;"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi. Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves." William Hazlitt. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life. and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." - William Faulkner. The most beautiful people we have kn...
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Unfolding freedom: Freewill
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Thursday, March 1, 2012. The undeniable fact that there is pain, suffering, war and chaos exist in the world does NOT prove that our God is a passive God who is hesitant to intervene right away but planning to fix everything in the "future", instead it simply and profoundly shows that God is someone who does not want to violate people's freewill; because w. Ithout freewill, love is impossible. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Unfolding freedom: February 2012
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Saturday, February 25, 2012. 10 reasons why I don't believe in Universalism. I have been reading and thinking quite a bit lately about the idea of Univeralism (Universal Salvation), which is an argument that all. Period of "hell-like" experience and then they will eventually bow their knees and confess with their tongue that Jesus is Lord. I am a believer in God's grace and His unconditional love and I am passionate about it and the...
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Unfolding freedom: Grow deep!
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. We are afraid of people. We are afraid of the god of our religion. We are afraid of being judged. We are afraid of being anti-social. We are afraid of breaking traditions. Is this how we are supposed to live? We live this conforming, compromising, gutless life 70, 80, 90 years and towards the end of our life, we would wonder did I even live one day as MYSELF? Isn't that life boring? Clergies prescribe food fo...
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Unfolding freedom: Right or Wrong?
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Thursday, March 1, 2012. Do you make decisions in life based on what is "right" and what is "wrong"? Is in't it easy to fall into the trap of analyzing each of our thoughts and actions based on the moral standard we have been given by our religion, culture or education? Yet, let's not forget that in the very scene of creation, the Creator specifically instructed the creation NOT to eat from the tree of knowledge of right and wrong.
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Unfolding freedom: Absolute Vs. Relative truth
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Monday, March 5, 2012. Absolute Vs. Relative truth. Absolute truth: What is true of me and everyone else. Relative truth: What is true for me is true for me, may not be true for you. If I say, I am now writing in Spanish, most people, who. Can distinguish Spanish and English, would disagree. There is an absolute truth here: Spanish and English are 2 different languages. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What God says about me!
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Unfolding freedom: December 2009
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. What He is to me. I got this in an email from a dear sister. I thought it is worth sharing. What He is to me? He is the First and Last,. The Beginning and the End! He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all! He is the Architect of the universe and the Manager of all times. He always was, He always is, and He always will be . Unmoved, Unchanged, Undefeated, and never Undone! His ways are right,.
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Unfolding freedom: August 2009
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Monday, August 31, 2009. Shame masquerading as humility. I am currently reading John Eldredge's "Waking the dead". (A great book, by the way). In it, John made a statement which goes something like this, " Most of the 'christian humility' we see today is nothing but shame masquerading as humility. Saint Iraneus's famous quote " The glory of God is man fully alive. I have come that you may have Life. Links to this post. I don't belie...
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Unfolding freedom: October 2009
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Thursday, October 29, 2009. Let's not keep the common sense aside. I have been listening to the ' growing in grace. Podcasts a lot lately. In more than one episodes, I heard Mike Kapler saying, "let's not keep the common sense aside". He says that especially when it comes to obedience and keeping the law. Who in their right mind can logically come to a conclusion that they can somehow please god through all these? I didn't know that...
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Unfolding freedom: February 2010
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Unsafe, non-religious thoughts on spirituality, life, people and things. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Commitment' to the Bible. Bible, as we see it today came into existence after the invention of printing press. I checked Wikipedia and the first printing press was assembled by Gutenberg around 1440, which means the book form of the Bible (as we see it today) wasn't widely available for nearly 1500 years since the time of Jesus. How did people live during that time? God gave them through various means?
