By Amy E.
13 August 2015
Hello,
I recently found you and subscribed. I am in the US and have been studying religions for a time now. Politics also, but I find your site engaging and interesting. I am a preacher's kid, well, woman, who was raised in the Christian Faith. Though under that umbrella are many quadrants that vastly differ from one another. I was raised to know God as Love and Grace, but an earthly father who was in his own right, a bit of a bohemian, but loved God dearly.
A series of events that were much about social injustice, spurned on a quest, for the definition of God. I know my NIV Study Bible well, the one done by Biblica, because the new version by Zondervan, has changed it. Though in studying, all the Bibles have been altered, much for political reasons.
I was taking to a Muslim brother one day, telling him about the stories in that Bible I knew. He was born in Bethlehem, Mohammed was his name. When I commented about his name, he said it was like Smith. You named a child that when you didn't know what else to name him. He was a Godly man with a good sense of humour. In our conversation, he told me he knew of the stories, but the names were different. So, I obtained a Qur'an, it was navy blue with gold embossing. The study portion was interpreted by a Greek. It was fascinating. Loved it because it addressed evolution.
Then it was on to the Tao, Gita...it goes on, too numerous to list.
One thing that became fairly evident if I could remove the word religion and just concentrate on the themes is that I found a common denominator.
God, Love, Positive Energy, hates it when man commits social injustice and pollutes the earth.
God, Love, Positive Energy, loves wisdom and knowledge
God, Love, Positive Energy, says Love Me with all your heart, soul and mind and love your brother as yourself. Who is my brother? Anything that is created of atoms, and last I read, the plants talk to one another.
So, thank you for the site. It is interesting to hear the dialogues. It occurs to me in reading much, that the KISS principle, Keep It Simple Stupid has been lost, as God is fairly easy to understand; has been replaced with the discourse of who's rule and regulations are from God. This creates a bit of humour for me, though also much sadness. As the God that I now know, is so incredibly layered and multi-cultural, that God is to Big to be confined to any one velum book.
If I have transgressed in anyway, it was not intended. I just wanted to express gratitude.
Thank you again,
In The Light
Amy E.
9:36 PM
Moderate Islamist here
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