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    Quote Originally Posted by apfilosa View Post
    If you live a sound lifestyle and believe in god you are well on your way to mastering your own spirituality. Clean eating, exercise, foregoing drugs and alcohol combined with prayer will put you on your way!
    I noticed "clean eating." Would I be able to eat bacon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GodismyJudge View Post
    Amen.

    There is no "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps", either by good works or by trying to "realize" or "actualize" some "god" within.
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    If the default is to see oneself as a soulless animal, the product of evolution, then most forms of spirituality are at least an attempt to break free from that mindset which doesn't promote a sound lifestyle. Most forms of spirituality are at least a search for something higher and to connect to that something higher.

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    ..... Most forms of spirituality are at least a search for something higher and to connect to that something higher.
    Absolutely.


    Acts 17:22-34
    (22) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
    (23) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.
    (24) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
    (25) Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
    (26) And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
    (27) That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us:
    (28) For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.
    (29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
    (30) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
    (31) Because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead.
    (32) And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
    (33) So Paul departed from among them.
    (34) Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.




    Last edited by GodismyJudge; 08-03-2017 at 09:14 AM.
    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Hey apfilosa, are there any Muslims on their way to spiritual enlightenment?

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    Except a person be born again they cannot see the Kingdom of God..except a person be born again they cannot enter the Kingdom of God....the carnal man does not receive the things of God and in fact, cannot...one does not evolve into a relationship with God...there are only to spiritual pats...God an Satan...God's kingdom or Satan's kingdom..

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