savedtoserve: well take my aka saved to serve what does it tell you
Robin MacAoidh: Nice Barbara
Robin MacAoidh: For that we are
savedtoserve: amen saved by the Lord and serve Him with pleasure
Phreak: That you probably had a pretty crummy life, then you had a euphoric moment where you saw the light, and sought psychological salvation in believing in a higher power, thus having been saved from your previous life, and feeling that suddenly your life had a purpose?
Robin MacAoidh: Sad assessment
Phreak: :| it was?
Robin MacAoidh: From one who analyzes without experiential knowledge
savedtoserve: actually i did have a pretty crummy life and i now have a new life in which the Lord has made possible for me, but i had tomake the choose i was not forced,
Robin MacAoidh: Yes I have heard such a notion put forth before
Phreak: A seemingly evidentially apt assessment?
Robin MacAoidh: It diminishes the one it was put to
savedtoserve: I was saved from this life not my previous life
Robin MacAoidh: Without knowledge
Phreak: I don't understand religion personally, but I think it serves a wonderful purpose, and certainly isn't wholey bad.
Robin MacAoidh: of truth
Robin MacAoidh: due to lack of experience in the actual matter
Robin MacAoidh: and attempt to undremine the faith of a child of God
Robin MacAoidh: Bad choice of action
savedtoserve: i live in this world but i am not of this world praise God my home is in Glory with my Heavenly Father. Praise you Lord for all your wonderful love and forgiveness for without forgiving me I could not forgive.
Phreak: I was making no attempt to undermine anybodys fairth. I was asked what I thought the name meant, and simply stated it, with no positive nor negative connotations attached, neither implicitly or explicitly.
Robin MacAoidh: Name not issue
Robin MacAoidh: Never was
savedtoserve: Matt Christianity is not a relligion it is a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, it is beyond religion
Phreak: okay
savedtoserve: please please do not cause striff
Phreak: Sorry... I had no attention of attempting to cause strife
Phreak: *intention
Robin MacAoidh: the foolish assumption that God is not real and only a psychosomatic system of support misses the entire point
Phreak: I neither stated God to be or not to be real...
Robin MacAoidh: Jesus is alive, rose from the dead
Robin MacAoidh: OK
savedtoserve: Robin my dear brother thank you for your love, find the peace of the Lord
Robin MacAoidh: Insinuating a psycho response was condescending
savedtoserve: Matt what is your belief may i ask
Robin MacAoidh: Yes I have it thank you Barbara
Phreak: How was it condescending to state that believing in God can bring somebody happiness? - Surely happiness is a mental state?
savedtoserve: Love goes beyond all understanding show love as it has been shown to us
Robin MacAoidh: Far beyond that, that was the belittlement
Phreak: savedtoserve, I have no belief. I just have the desire to learn what I currently do not know in order to allow myself to better understand both myself and others.
Robin MacAoidh: I am being instructional