In Reply to: Re: Growing up, my journey, responsibility posted by Farmer on November 01, 2004 at 05:20:27:
I'm pretty simple minded about all this. You ask me about salvation, faith in Jesus, etc. Here's what I believe now: I believe that there's a spirit of love that exists in creation, which means there's a Creator's love for creation and for man too since we're part of that creation. I beleive that lots of people enjoy the benefits of that love, people who are religious and people who are not religious. I personally have non religious friends who are really spiritual people, they have a spiritual life and they have God, the Creator, the Great Spirit, whatever you want to call God ...Him/Her/It working in their lives. I don't think my Christian friends have anything more than the Buddhist friend I have. I have the kind of Christian friends that accept that my Buddhist friend has got something really great for him that gives him God and God's love.
For me what matters is to believe in what's good for you. I have an agnostic friend who believes in "Life". Well, he's a good person and as far as I'm concerned he's got a spiritual journey and experience and he's a happy person.
I don't mind if religious Christians think I'm off the track, things are going great between me and God, it's only important for me to know that.