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caffiend
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Date: January 10, 2018 02:27PM
You're working your way through some pretty heavy stuff, Adam, so don't worry if it seems confusing. I'm old enough to be your grandfather (at least!) and have been reading up on this, so bear with me if some of it comes off as highfalutin stuff.
Badassadam1 Wrote:
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> I see, i have always seen it as a weakness or
> weird for a man or woman to say they will become a
> god. It is not healthy for the mind in my
> opinion.
You're absolutely right: it is spiritual pride for us doomed-to-die-someday folks to consider ourselves, or aspire to, godhood. There are various strains of New Age and mystic beliefs that make Man "god" in some way or another, also.
Right you are, again! The Christian writer (and former atheist) C.S. Lewis once wrote, "You have never met a mere mortal," because some part of us will exist "beyond the veil." Just what that is ("soul" and/or "spirit") is subject for another conversation. My problem with atheism is that some sort of belief in the afterlife is found in all cultures and eras. With due regard to our friend "Hie2Kolob," who insists that "there is no evidence," I suggest that the evidence that there is is 1) not specific enough and 2) unconvincing because of an overly pure empirical threshold (in other words, an insistence upon purely material proof).
But sometimes I do feel like i am more
> than just a material machine that won't exist
> after death. But maybe exist as some energy of
> some kind or something after death. That's what
> makes sense to my mind atleast.
As a Christian, I take the Bible seriously, but not always literally. The Bible is quite consistent and clear that we will have some form of consciousness in the afterlife, and memory of our human existence. Beyond that, I take images of "streets of gold," a holy city made of exotic gems and minerals, etc. to be poetic allusions to beauty and joy beyond our human capacity to understand. At least we agree it won't be Kolob!
> If someone were so you would
> say that in a slippery way christian science says
> you will become a god? Or just that we have
> divine attributes like a god and that is it?
The latter: Whereas they'll never say Men and Women are "gods" or "gods in the making," they do believe that humans "in the absolute reality of their true Spiritual identity" are, essentially, godlike and divine.
> It was hard to draw a real conclusion from all that
> if they do or they don't believe they will become
> gods or not. I really want to know because i
> really thought mormonism only taught that and i
> think its a big deal if there were other cults or
> religions that taught that as well at least for me
> it's a big deal.
There's not a lot that's really original in religious thought, just the same things recombined and repackaged so they appear to be new revelation or "truth." Just as JS took different ideas from different sources, first to write the BoM and later to establish his evil theocracy and polygamy, Mary Baker Eddy--a prolific reader but unoriginal thinker--borrowed from American Transcendentalism, Spiritism ("Spiritualism"), Hindu & Buddhist thought, Unitarianism, tied it up with the string of "science," and called her "revelation" Christian Science.
As Mark Twain said, her religion is neither Christian, nor a science.