Comments on: There Once Was a Man http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/4126 David Hayward is a pastor artistically stripping to the essential. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kaalvoet-Kind http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/4126/comment-page-1#comment-123837 Kaalvoet-Kind Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:38:28 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=4126#comment-123837 Have I misinterpreted this post? I had a discussion with a friend yesterday (still very fresh in my mind) that told me he thinks that all religions lead to salvation in the end. He doesn’t disregard Christianity in total, but he said that he believes in the ‘Cosmos’ not in Jesus as our saviour and told me he has never experienced true freedom until now… To me: Jesus is our saviour and the only why to find “where all is One”, is through Him. You must have a hungry heart. Like Augustine said ‘Longing is the hearts treasury”. In His own words: “blessed are those who hunger and thirst’ I don’t feel that one can disregard ‘all images, all philosophies, all religions, all theologies, all spiritualities, all institutions and organizations” Jesus showed us the way though His church and through communion with others. I do not desire to be free of worship or prayer, (there can be no true praying without desire), but I do desire to be free IN God. I do not desire, solitude and loneliness. I desire to be fully alive, I desire to be fully awake, I desire to find the adventure of the life that God intended me to live. Here, now, in this world, where I was placed by Him ! “We are never living, but always hoping to live.” Jesus’ wish was the we (His church) must become ONE with His Father like They are One, so that the world can believe, did He not? Have I misinterpreted this post?

I had a discussion with a friend yesterday (still very fresh in my mind) that told me he thinks that all religions lead to salvation in the end. He doesn’t disregard Christianity in total, but he said that he believes in the ‘Cosmos’ not in Jesus as our saviour and told me he has never experienced true freedom until now…

To me: Jesus is our saviour and the only why to find “where all is One”, is through Him. You must have a hungry heart. Like Augustine said ‘Longing is the hearts treasury”. In His own words: “blessed are those who hunger and thirst’ I don’t feel that one can disregard ‘all images, all philosophies, all religions, all theologies, all spiritualities, all institutions and organizations” Jesus showed us the way though His church and through communion with others.
I do not desire to be free of worship or prayer, (there can be no true praying without desire), but I do desire to be free IN God. I do not desire, solitude and loneliness. I desire to be fully alive, I desire to be fully awake, I desire to find the adventure of the life that God intended me to live. Here, now, in this world, where I was placed by Him ! “We are never living, but always hoping to live.” Jesus’ wish was the we (His church) must become ONE with His Father like They are One, so that the world can believe, did He not?

]]> By: Tiggy http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/4126/comment-page-1#comment-123835 Tiggy Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:08:51 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=4126#comment-123835 Kaalvoet-Kind, I think Krishnamurti meant non-attachment to desires. Personally, I like being passionate, but it can get me into trouble. People in India tend to be very exciteable; it's a bit different to telling a bunch of English people, say, to be less emotional. Kaalvoet-Kind, I think Krishnamurti meant non-attachment to desires. Personally, I like being passionate, but it can get me into trouble. People in India tend to be very exciteable; it’s a bit different to telling a bunch of English people, say, to be less emotional.

]]> By: Tiggy http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/4126/comment-page-1#comment-123834 Tiggy Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:53:52 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=4126#comment-123834 You call it deconstruction - I call it the apophatic way. You call it deconstruction – I call it the apophatic way.

]]> By: Richard Harty http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/4126/comment-page-1#comment-123823 Richard Harty Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:28:28 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=4126#comment-123823 It's being free from all descriptions of god. All descriptions are illusions and most are simply descriptions of ourselves. It’s being free from all descriptions of god. All descriptions are illusions and most are simply descriptions of ourselves.

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