1 Corinthians (various passages) - Paul is not a happy apostle

[jimkenney12]

A good Sunday School and church experience provided a foundation. Our Anglican Church had the third sunday of every month as a family sunday where we stayed in church for the whole service plus started every other Sunday in church until the story time. I started Sunday school in grade four and by grade nine I knew the page numbers for Morning Prayer and communion services and partially memorized most of the readings. The next part was an intimate and surprising spiritual experience in a grade nine social studies classroom where I was told by some presences not to worry as they were looking after me. And it grew and evolved and continues to evolve. When I choose to go where I am pulled or pushed, important experiences happen. Surrendering my life to the service of the mission of Jesus led to a surprising and at times scary life which I would be reluctant to trade for any other life.

 

[BetteTheRed]

How well would a person do in another's head

To quote a great recent FB meme, "I don't have a train of thought. I have seven trains on four tracks that narrowly avoid collision when they cross paths. And all the conductors are screaming."

I don't know that my fundamentalist upbringing informs my current spiritual path at all. Seems to me that all it did was indicate how easily I could memorize and regurgitate material. Like a Godly Krebs Cycle (which every Grade 13 Biology student had to memorize perfectly).

My entire "faith" is informed by one possibly mystical experience, more than a quarter of a century ago. Or possibly just a strange dream. A fragment of undigested potato.

 

[Mendalla]

Sometimes it seems like a choice or decision we make.

UU'ism sometimes calls itself "The Chosen Faith" (in fact there's a book by that title) because so many UUs were raised in other churches/faiths and became UU as adults (and, yes, many who are raised UU don't necessarily stay so).

In my case, everything was "right" for me to be a Christian in terms of upbringing. Raised in the church, went to Sunday School and VBS, eventually involved in worship and other parts of church life, grandfather was a minister in both pastoral and administrative roles in the denomination. But somewhere along the line, my intellectual curiousity trumped all that and I went in other directions, finding my spiritual truth is places other than that, which led me to UU'ism in the end. And maybe it was lack of mystical, personal experience that tipped me in that more intellectual direction. My most "mystical" experiences have been moments of awe in nature, which is what tipped me to things like pantheism and panentheism rather than traditional Christian ideas of God.

 

[Luce NDs]

Imagine all the well laid out bases for the sacred myth ... then spud it Bud! The seed 's planted ... and how many question the great mystery?

Too dark, mute and scary as it lies there ... remnant from the past in the crypt ... is it an involuntary urge considering all the reinforcement as brute forte?

ET TU?

So many words to re consider as mea culpe ... drvived frome carpe and somewhat fishy ... just follow the monae they say ... thus enoche ... or alternately heh noch Dan none listened du to conditionning ... duck heh ... thus the sues member ... fifferentiated from Big Sur ... misinformed? Topi yah ...