My mom is out for dinner with Princess Leta and then they're going shopping. I hope she doesn't come home with crappy kids' makeup or high heels
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Well, that depends on how much you want to tell and how you want to do it! I'm interested in what your religious background is, what your beliefs are now/if you identify with an organized religion/church, and why, and I guess if you want to get into it more I will have more questions based on what you tell me. If you want to email me, you can at sabonai@gmail.com. I'm involved in an epic email conversation with a pastor friend but I don't want him to be my only source--I don't want him alone to represent ALL people of faith or all Christians or even all Lutherans... I want to hear from lots of people!
I already babbled forth in your other blog, but if you need to know other things...just ask! I identify with the United Methodist Church; it's how I was raised, and it's comfortable, familiar way for me to attend worship and focus my thoughts. It's more about communicating with God than judging in the name of Jesus. I've discovered recently that you don't even have to think of Jesus as the physical son of God as a United Methodist worshipper -- just that "God is best known in the life of Jesus of Nazareth....[and] Jesus brought to this world the fullest revelation of who God is, and who we are to become." I've always had trouble with the weird idea of Jesus as God's physical son, born of some poor confused virgin
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Interesting. I'm going to have to look into Methodist beliefs. My dad (non-denominational) once told me I should go to a Methodist church. I didn't ask why. I figured it was because he went to one when he was a kid.
So you naturally gravitated back toward what you knew from growing up... How does the UMC get its beliefs if they aren't strictly biblical? I think that process is pretty interesting. Or is it that they've come to interpret these things from the bible in a way that makes more sense? Or is it just not so strict about it all but coming together for worship? No that sounds more unitarian.
I think your second phrase sums it up well: they've come to interpret these things from the Bible in a way that makes more sense. I'm talking out of my uninformed head here, but I've always had the feeling the the UMC is flexible, willing to interpret the Bible in ways that make much more sense in our modern, better-educated, more fairly governed society. The Bible was written in times and places very different from our own. Its millenia-old, sometimes oppressive and barbaric assumptions and expectations can be ridiculous in 21st century civilization. Don't slaughter and burn a calf. Just write a check
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So you naturally gravitated back toward what you knew from growing up... How does the UMC get its beliefs if they aren't strictly biblical? I think that process is pretty interesting. Or is it that they've come to interpret these things from the bible in a way that makes more sense? Or is it just not so strict about it all but coming together for worship? No that sounds more unitarian.
How do YOU feel about Jesus? Mary? The Gospels?
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