You state it limits things, but you have yet to state what it may limit in terms of loving other people and or enjoying life when it doesn't harm another(s).

This thread is not for arguing about religion or the Bible. It is only about your personal feelings about how you personally love what you feel is "GOD."

Agreed, this is about a personal relationship/knowledge about God. Not any doctrine.

Because it defines what harming is, it leaves no room for our own intepretations. Hence a limit on our experiences.

But I won't argue this further, out of respect for Jeannie.

Thank you. There are plenty of other threads for discussion about the Bible or religion.

Or create one!

Here is a fantastic song that puts joy in my heart for living:
I hope you can listen to it. Its awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOrqDx5dOp4&feature=youtu.be

???? First off, who's arguing? This is why "discussions" turn into "arguments" and bickering at one another. Just because two people's beliefs don't agree with one another, doesn't mean they are arguing or anything. They just have a different belief, no one's trying to state their belief trumps yours or anything of such. Just "sharing" our different beliefs.

Secondly, there is not interpretations to what harms another. It's plain and simple and same for everyone. If you're going to say the Christian belief limits something, you're going to have to get a little more in depth then that.

That's a good song :), she's has a beautiful voice.

It's full of gut wrenching feeling of a person who is glad to be alive. I imagine her coming from a very oppressive situation maybe even life threatening, to find freedom. That's what her song feels like.

^^I feel the same way jeanniebean. I love him by loving and helping others, by listening to my heart/instincts, believing he hasn't put on a path I can not follow, knowing he places people in my life for reasons and I try to cherish the time/energy I share with them! I trust when I ask for something I truly need it will be placed in my path, but also feel that I must be grateful for whatever it is as sometimes these gifts are not exactly what we expected, yet usually what we really needed rather than what we think we do!

That's the kind of answers I am looking for! Thanks!

God is definitely funny like that, the biggest blessings at times tend to be in ways and places you wouldn't have expected. We just have to be paying attention to receive them.

look at the beauty of the universe. this is a reflection of God.
human emotion and love is also a reflection of God. feel the
beauty of it and you are loving God with your appreciation of all
that is good, true and just in this world.

Yes & be careful what you ask for

I love God with my heart and in my mind

I love God in the good I do and the evil I repel

I love God in the mistakes I make and TRY to make up for

I love God in the eyes of children, the hugs of my own. whatever forgiveness I can share

the beauty of a woodland a prairie or a mountain

in the races and religions of all peoples
in the gifts I give & receive and the love I make

In my life as a living being all is for the grace of God...even when it is not particularly graceful

AMEN!!, very beautiful.

and it is often as not - not particularly graceful


thanks

I love God with a bit of ketchup and Soy Bean Sauce, or doing it in the missionary position.

I think loving god "doggy style" would be blasphemous. Except for dyslexics.

TO EMULATE GOD’S LOVE IS TO LOVE GOD





......"Do It Anyway"........

- Mother Teresa wrote this poem –



People are often unreasonable,

illogical and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.


If you are kind,

people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.


If you are successful,

you will win some false friends and true enemies;

Succeed anyway.


If you are honest and frank,

people may cheat you;

Be honest anyway.


What you spend years building,

someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.


If you find serenity and happiness,

they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.


The good you do today,

people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.


Give the world the best you have,

and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.


You see, in the final analysis,

it is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.




"We Love God Because He First Loved Us."

Jeannie wrote:




With All Your Heart and Mind and Soul

is How to Sing !!!!


With All Your Heart And Mind and Soul

Is How to Love God !!!


(Nina Simone .... now that woman could SING!!!)

God invented the missionary position...I think Satan has dibs on doggy though