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Monday, 11 September 2006

"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." -Carl Sagan

Tuesday, 29 August 2006

This is a quote from the church of scientology website

The word Scientology literally means "the study of truth." It comes from the Latin word "scio" meaning "knowing in the fullest sense of the word" and the Greek word "logos" meaning "study of."

Actually, scio in Latin means "I know" and could be conjugated to mean "You know" "They know" or even "He/She/It Knows" but never "knowing in the fulles sense of the word".

The Greek word logos is usually translated into English as "word" but has many meanings and derivitives. One derivitive is logy which basically means "the study of".

So actually, Scientology means "The study of knowing", not "the study of truth".

Knowledge does NOT equal Truth

Thursday, 24 August 2006

Searching for Books on Universalism or Universal Christianity.

Boarders Bookstore: 1 book on Unitarian Universalism (different than Universal Christianity, not helpful)

Barnes & Noble: Nothing

Amazon.com: 15,863 results http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_ss_hs/102-4971983-4433724?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&keywords=Universalism

Not so helpful since I need to obtain the information without having to buy 15,863 books...how unfortunate that Amazon.com doesn't offer browsing or anything close to an iced soy late.

Friday, 18 August 2006

Currently Listening
Messenger [ENHANCED CD]
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Studying Universalism Contd.

My discoveries in scripture that support the idea of universal salvation.

1 John 4:8 & 4:16 "..God is Love."

Dictionary: is: v Third person singular present indicative of be. be: v To consist or be made of

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Love will last forever..

Monday, 14 August 2006

New discussion to come: Universal Salvation (non-exclusive salvation)

I know in my heart that if I had the biggest fight in the world with my mom and told her I hated her and never wanted to speak to her again and then didn't speak to her for any number of years, 5, 20, or even 50, when I did come to her and say I love you, forgive me, she would. I will even go so far as to say that if I left a letter for her with my will, and I died before her, and in the letter it said I love you, forgive me, and she read the letter after my death, she would. Even if on earth we never spoke again, and we met in heaven and I said I love you, forgive me, she would. And evey time she would be overjoyed and overcome with emotion at my return to her.

If I can believe this about my human, flesh & bone, mother what would make me think that God, my heavely Father, would give up on me the first, second, or 10th time I denied Him the love and respect He deserves. Did Jesus not tell us the story of the Prodigal Son? Did He not say "For the Lord will not cast off forever" Lamentations 3:31,32 ?

I can't imagine my mother every saying "that's it, into the fires of hell with you forever" she has proven to me that she loves me too much to do that. I know a percentage of what she suffers when I am away from her, or in pain, or in distress, or when we argue and aren't getting along. How much more must God love us?

So how could someone that loves us so much endure sending so many of us into the fires of hell forever?