@vivify said
That's an interesting question.

If you are madly in love with your spouse or significant other and have a very happy life with that person...would you want to know if that person is cheating on you?

I recently watched an interview with a comedian whose mother told him the man who raised him was not actually his father. The comedian said this was not something he neede ...[text shortened]... question (knowing the truth or remaining happy) depends on how much what is at stake matters to you.

@kellyjay said
Are we on a happiness quest or a truth quest?
Would we want to know the truth if it wasn't what we think it should be?
If I'm content the way I am, and truth would be upsetting, would I prefer being ignorant?
Thoughts

Why is it that some Christians simply cannot cope with the idea that some of their beliefs about their own religion might be wrong?

And subsequently, like KellyJay who is unable to convince another Christian such as myself that the Bible is entirely literally and his interpretation is bang on and that the Bible should NEVER be cherry picked … just implodes into these dichotomies of “happiness or truth” when the moral spiritual and religious choices are far more complex.

@divegeester said
Why is it that some Christians simply cannot cope with the idea that some of their beliefs about their own religion might be wrong?

And subsequently, like KellyJay who is unable to convince another Christian such as myself that the Bible is entirely literally and his interpretation is bang on and that the Bible should NEVER be cherry picked … just implodes into these d ...[text shortened]... otomies of “happiness or truth” when the moral spiritual and religious choices are far more complex.

@kellyjay said
Are we on a happiness quest or a truth quest?
Would we want to know the truth if it wasn't what we think it should be?
If I'm content the way I am, and truth would be upsetting, would I prefer being ignorant?
Thoughts

@kellyjay said
Why can some not answer a question without going personal?

@kellyjay said
Nothing in the OP was Christianity, the Bible, or my beliefs about anything.

@divegeester said
And you are quite happy being “personal” when you are attacking me.

@divegeester said
Are you claiming that your OP has nothing to with either “Christianity, the Bible, or your beliefs about anything”?

If you can answer this honestly then I will review my replies to your in this thread.

Thanks .

@kellyjay said
Did you see either word “Christianity or Bible” in the post? Others had no issues dealing with the OP as written.

@moonbus said
People look at the world through the prisms of their own experiences and belief systems; this splits whatever they see into fixed channels with a certain tint. some people respond without any religious over- or under-tone; others cannot not see it as having a religious over/under-tone.

@kellyjay said
Worldviews how we think reality is, is how we all view all things through that.

@moonbus said
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.


William Blake,

@KellyJay


I know a good brother who put songs to the book of Ecclesiastes.

Here is one on there God making everything beautiful in its time and put eternity into man's heart.

https://soundcloud.com/chords-of-a-man

@sonship said
@KellyJay


I know a good brother who put songs to the book of Ecclesiastes.

Here is one on there God making everything beautiful in its time and put eternity into man's heart.

https://soundcloud.com/chords-of-a-man