tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post594467020103289016..comments2024-02-27T12:41:35.811-08:00Comments on Coming to Terms...: Losing Religion, Choosing the AlternativeLisa :-]http://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-57898207397858148022012-08-23T11:40:09.665-07:002012-08-23T11:40:09.665-07:00There's faith and there's religion. If we&...There's faith and there's religion. If we're lucky sometimes they overlap. If you imagine God (whoever or whatever he/she is)as a football field, what we understand is about the width of one of those white lines. <br /><br />I just about get out the door and I keep finding puzzle pieces that give me hope. And there's a lot more than I can possible put in a comment.JACKIEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883028058826030899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-11683709673740418032012-08-23T04:17:20.680-07:002012-08-23T04:17:20.680-07:00I too find it sad that these clergy are leaving th...I too find it sad that these clergy are leaving their faith in God, or the possibility of God. In seminary I had to read a long systematic theology book inwhich the theologian described God as Being and creation as being - human beings are part of the lower case beings of creation. But God, upper case Being contains within God's self all of creation, including human. ANd human beings have a particular relationship with Being because of our capacity to the think, reason, discern, and embrace abstract thinking such as - spirituality and faith - in other words we don't just live by our reptilian brains but we have a frontal lobe and in that the capacity for a higher state of being.Terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667178624061122421noreply@blogger.com