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My wife got this one.

I’m sick of the question, “Are you saved?” My frustration with the question is that 90% of the people who ask it have never considered the responding question, “Saved from what?” You gotta be saved! Are you SURE you’re saved?! You gotta be sure! If you’re not SURE you’re saved, you’d better come to church with me this Sunday! Bah.

Are you saying I need to be saved from Hell? Who’s sending me to Hell? God!? Why would God be sending me to Hell? Was it something I did? So you’re saying that I should want a relationship with a God that is currently sending me to Hell for something I did to offend Him before I even knew He was there? Or are you saying that it was something Adam did… it wasn’t necessarily something I did, but what that Book says that guy did thousands of years ago that makes me destined by God to Hell? What the Hell?!

I’m on a roll now, keep reading…

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God is Love.  There are three Persons of the Trinity:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  The Father begets the Son, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father.  Each Person of the Trinity is in Essence (technical term), God.  Just like we are all in Essence, Man. 

Well, not “just like.”  We Men are individuated, separate beings.  We are finite, and divided.  The Persons of the Trinity are all infinite, because they are all in Essence, God.  In Essence, they are indistinguishable, though not confused.  They “are” and “exist” in the fullness of the Communion Relationship of Love.  God is Love.  And so we refer to them as Trinity or God in the singular. 

We can aim for this in our relationships of Love.  (more…)

I’ve had a fairly intense spiritual weekend this weekend. I watched a couple of movies that (regardless of how good the movies are) got me to thinking about deep topics. I watched “United 93″ and “Artificial Intelligence. ” Both have their good and bad points. The movies aren’t the point. The point is I came to realize the Meaning of Life this weekend. Seriously. I’ll tell you, just keep reading.

There are two aspects to the answer. They’re the answers to the questions “Why was I created,” and “What is my purpose?”

The first question is one of existence itself. What sustains us as living, real, vital persons? What defines me as being? What, if it were taken away, would cause me to not exist? I’ll give you a clue, it’s not “I think therefore I am.”

The second question has to do with the purpose of my existence. What am I here to do? What should I be working for? Why keep going?

And the Meaning of Life is… (more…)