Posted by Xdoughboy on June 12, 2002 at 11:11:12:
In Reply to: Re: On Christianity and Martial Arts - I am a Moslem! posted by Baphomet on June 12, 2002 at 06:08:03:
Spoken out of the mindset I see you to hold. I cry over nothing contextual to this conversation.
Sure on the ultimate level if we believe in God as all powerful, omnipotent, the ONE TRUE BEING, then we are merely the 'ACCORDING TO BEING' all symbols and beliefs aside. Though those symbols and beliefs are used to lift us up to the understanding of this ONE TRUE BEING. We are not spirits trapped in bodies, that is a ghost, we are not bodies without spirits, that is a corpse. We are physical and spiritual at the same time, a duality. To function best we must work with the things of this duality, to leave anything out can lead to misunderstanding. To try to understand a being that cannot be understood except by what He reveals is also in danger of misunderstanding.
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