Could the reason for the imperfect world be to allow sin?

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  1. XploreR

    XploreR Well-Known Member

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    You're partly right. The bottom line purpose for any of us to come here & experience physical life, is to learn to love in a world where loving is difficult. Every day of every life is filled with opportunities to feel & express love or selfishness. Our whole lives are deliberately constructed that way. We reincarnate because we need more than one lifetime to achieve that level of success we aspire to. Every incarnation is different, but we do take some of what we learned from our present incarnation into the next. We don't start over. Gradually we learn enough to allow us a choice to stop incarnating & remain in the spirit world (or Astral). But even then, we don't stop learning & growing. It's a process that changes but never ceases, for we are eternal beings, and we must deal with the question, "What do you do with eternity?"
     
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    Consider, for examples, love, hate, jealousy, cruelty, kindness, etc. I wonder if these exist in our universe, and if so, how their existence is verified.

    For those who accept the relevance of sin, it does exist in part of the universe; for those who don’t accept the relevance of sin, it doesn’t exist in the remaining part of the universe.

    There will always be some people who can’t function properly in this world without religious conviction. They use it to restrain themselves from going out of control. It works like a hypnotic suggestion. Depriving them of it results in behavior that tends to be hedonistic, self-serving, and indifferent to consequences harmful to others.

    Expectation to the contrary is unrealistic.
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Eating shrimp and working on the sabbath are sins. If someone asks you for money do you give it to him and don't ask for it back? Do you pray in public? Do you swear oaths? All of those are rated as sins.
     
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    How do you know if I do any of those things? Praying in public is not forbidden unless it is for show off purposes only. A man with a true heart who prays can pray anywhere. Eating shrimp is part of the works of the Old Testament, I shall not go to hell from eating a shrimp my man. I believe, therefore I am saved. I do not swear on other people as God is my witness and knows if I am true. I am a very charitable person and I never give anything to receive.

    I know you won’t belive any of that, I am trying to understand why you would hate on something which has improved me and millions of other people. I do not expect or want to convince you but you should perhaps respect other people who pose no threat to you whatsoever. I do however understand why you wouldn’t like those who push religion on to others but I am not like that.
     
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    Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus sounds a lot like near death experiencer and former Atheist Rabbi Alon Anava who advocates that we go to drastic lengths to avoid going into the Life Review of the near death experience devoid of Mitzvah's and acts of kindness and mercy to others.

     
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    Actually.... I do believe in Evolution.....(but I believe that G-d Evolved...... I believe in both a masculine and feminine form)....... Adam and Eve (or perhaps even five or so Adam and Eve pairs), were created.... and before them a Covering Cherub named Lucifer who decided to revolt against G-d the FAther and YHWH the Mother.... the Holy Spirit.

    The probability of intelligence originating in four dimensional space time is infinitely unlikely......

    www.CarbonBias.blogspot.ca/
     
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    You seem a little obsessed with NDE. You do realize that science has explained why these happen right?
     
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    And your theory about the point of the world is based on what exactly?
     
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    The Life Review is NOT a judgement. Rather, it's a powerful way to look at one's recently past life from the perspective of those affected by your behaviors, thoughts & statements. It's done to give you a wider format from which to learn from that last life, and hopefully, move forward in the next.
     
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    Why create sin?
     
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    No. It would mean the primary reason for physical existence was non spiritual ends.
     
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    And the only reason that is a sin is it deprives the state of your labor and religion exists to serve the state.
     
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