What are people thinking.
If you look at my profile you will see that I am an atheist. So What! You will also see that one of my favorite authors is Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and that one of my interests is religious studies. Some people find this interesting, to me it's the ever pursuit of the truth.
It's unbelievable to me that everything we needed to know about the universe was revealed to us about 2500 years ago to a man named Moses. If you think about it that was the turning point for Christianity as far as the bible goes (you do have to ignore the other 6 major religions and some 10's of thousand other sects). Moses receives the law from the one and only God, to be delivered by this mere mortal to the 40,000 wretched sinners at the foot of Mt. Sinai.
There you go end it all stop asking questions, there's really nothing else to discover. God painted the heavens to confuse man and test his faith. God created illness, viruses, and death to eliminate the weak of faith and of mind. But we are really talking about is faith, and that is the reason for my title.
Today I did a search for Dr. Peale. I do this occasionally hoping to find better information than I have found previously. Dr. Peale died many years ago and with him the foundation for the power of his message died with him. His books is great and his story telling fantastic but nothing will replace the power of his sermons for delivering his message. Today, I found a few audio books that I had not seen before, but the ratings are what caught my attention.
These IDIOTS purchase an Audio book written/spoken by a minister and then have the nerve to complain that he spends too much time relating positive thinking to faith in God. OF COURSE HE DOES. If you had faith in something so powerful that you no longer needed to question your day to day life, when you had an opportunity to share that with the world you would. When it becomes the channel for self fulfilling thought and positive thinking then it becomes the logic behind your book. That these people would begin the process expecting anything different is beyond me.
I love Dr. Peale because he gives real stories of people that through FAITH (because that is what positive thinking is) had made incredible changes or accomplished unbelievable feats. His message of FAITH can be applied to anything you want. For me I believe it becomes simply FAITH in the principle that through FAITH and removing doubt that all things are possible. Admittedly it's harder to channel that faith into nothingness, previously being a born again Christian and having a God, a person, an entity to give that burden to was simple, it made sense and I felt like I turned over some of the burden of life to that other person. For those that have it I hope you never lose it, and for those that get angry at the fact that others have that kind of faith in any God of their choosing, I hope you find what you are looking for.
That's my last thought on the subject.
It's unbelievable to me that everything we needed to know about the universe was revealed to us about 2500 years ago to a man named Moses. If you think about it that was the turning point for Christianity as far as the bible goes (you do have to ignore the other 6 major religions and some 10's of thousand other sects). Moses receives the law from the one and only God, to be delivered by this mere mortal to the 40,000 wretched sinners at the foot of Mt. Sinai.
There you go end it all stop asking questions, there's really nothing else to discover. God painted the heavens to confuse man and test his faith. God created illness, viruses, and death to eliminate the weak of faith and of mind. But we are really talking about is faith, and that is the reason for my title.
Today I did a search for Dr. Peale. I do this occasionally hoping to find better information than I have found previously. Dr. Peale died many years ago and with him the foundation for the power of his message died with him. His books is great and his story telling fantastic but nothing will replace the power of his sermons for delivering his message. Today, I found a few audio books that I had not seen before, but the ratings are what caught my attention.
These IDIOTS purchase an Audio book written/spoken by a minister and then have the nerve to complain that he spends too much time relating positive thinking to faith in God. OF COURSE HE DOES. If you had faith in something so powerful that you no longer needed to question your day to day life, when you had an opportunity to share that with the world you would. When it becomes the channel for self fulfilling thought and positive thinking then it becomes the logic behind your book. That these people would begin the process expecting anything different is beyond me.
I love Dr. Peale because he gives real stories of people that through FAITH (because that is what positive thinking is) had made incredible changes or accomplished unbelievable feats. His message of FAITH can be applied to anything you want. For me I believe it becomes simply FAITH in the principle that through FAITH and removing doubt that all things are possible. Admittedly it's harder to channel that faith into nothingness, previously being a born again Christian and having a God, a person, an entity to give that burden to was simple, it made sense and I felt like I turned over some of the burden of life to that other person. For those that have it I hope you never lose it, and for those that get angry at the fact that others have that kind of faith in any God of their choosing, I hope you find what you are looking for.
That's my last thought on the subject.
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