God Is Love, HE Is Energy, & Light. We connect to JESUS Christ via The Holy Spirit, Who Died for our sins, & one to another, in a beautiful transforming way that will be complete in Heaven.

(06-28-2011 03:12 AM)LostSoul Wrote:  I've spent the past years investigating my beliefs and faith, deconstructing , reconstructing, and testing them.

I used to believe Jesus was my savior, heaven waited for me, how could it be otherwise, the holy spirit's presence in my life could be literally felt.

What I now believe has been profoundly disturbing, not in it's self, but in the net destabilizing effect on my psyche. You might ask, what do I believe? I believe our ancestors created the "God concept" as a mirror image of the self, an imaginary being having the perfect attributes we seek to embrace. Virtues being hard to exercise in a chaotic and overwhelming world, God is the steadfast guardian who stands up to all challenges and prevails. In summary I believe wise men formulated religion as an ancient system of psychotherapy for the masses and as such Jesus is a fraud assuming he's not entirely made up. I believe the holy spirit as typically experienced is merely an catharsis, or release, induced by thoughts of admiration, sympathy, sorrow, love, and forgiveness.

This absence of God has left a large vacume in my life, as I now stand in an empty hall, my will is a vector pointing in any and no direction.