Tatarica
03-01-2007, 01:50
Okai, this will be my first and my last thread about religion.
This is directed to Christians more than any other religions & atheists & etc. etc.
I view most of you odd. Is there such a big gap between a Catholic Christian, an Orthodox Christian & all the other Christian smallish cults?
Some while ago, I was in my classroom and we had a chat with one of our teacher. We were at the topic 'Can someone come down from Heaven' and a girl said 'No, we all know that no-one came down from Heaven because we haven't seen anyone falling down from the sky'... and she was serious about it. That precious moment I still cherish deeply, human stupidity.. and we're High School Seniors.
Now, I'm an Orthodox. Apparently we get another religious education around here, because I haven't yet confronted with what other users & trolls post in their religious topics.
For example, does any Catholic believes that Heaven is in the sky and Hell is in the center of the Earth and not some state of mind? Does any Catholic believes that when you die your good deeds will be counted, as well as your bad deeds, and if you got 51% good deeds you'll go to heaven? Does any Catholic believes that God is in the sky, and watching us? And most important, does any Catholic believes that God made everything in 6 days?
For those of you not yet familiar with Orthodox theology, we believe that based on the amount of good deeds & bad deeds you'll go somewhere, as in, your spirit will find either peace or discontent. But a distinction must be made between someone who half of his life did good deeds and someone who dedicated all his life in doing good deeds. That's why we have several 'stages' of Heaven and Hell. I forgot how many of them were, but somewhere around 7, if I remember. But maybe we don't know, I forgot.
Oh, and not to mention, we know that God did not made everything in 6 days. At the days when this all was said & written people weren't as smart as we are today. Try telling a rudimentary human that God made everything in the course of hundreds of hundreds of million of years, if that human knew only of today & yesterday. So, they had the excellent idea of naming geological eras as days.
This is the education that Orthodoxians receive. From what I see, it's completely different from most Catholics. Oh, those catholics that have heard of orthodoxians.
This is directed to Christians more than any other religions & atheists & etc. etc.
I view most of you odd. Is there such a big gap between a Catholic Christian, an Orthodox Christian & all the other Christian smallish cults?
Some while ago, I was in my classroom and we had a chat with one of our teacher. We were at the topic 'Can someone come down from Heaven' and a girl said 'No, we all know that no-one came down from Heaven because we haven't seen anyone falling down from the sky'... and she was serious about it. That precious moment I still cherish deeply, human stupidity.. and we're High School Seniors.
Now, I'm an Orthodox. Apparently we get another religious education around here, because I haven't yet confronted with what other users & trolls post in their religious topics.
For example, does any Catholic believes that Heaven is in the sky and Hell is in the center of the Earth and not some state of mind? Does any Catholic believes that when you die your good deeds will be counted, as well as your bad deeds, and if you got 51% good deeds you'll go to heaven? Does any Catholic believes that God is in the sky, and watching us? And most important, does any Catholic believes that God made everything in 6 days?
For those of you not yet familiar with Orthodox theology, we believe that based on the amount of good deeds & bad deeds you'll go somewhere, as in, your spirit will find either peace or discontent. But a distinction must be made between someone who half of his life did good deeds and someone who dedicated all his life in doing good deeds. That's why we have several 'stages' of Heaven and Hell. I forgot how many of them were, but somewhere around 7, if I remember. But maybe we don't know, I forgot.
Oh, and not to mention, we know that God did not made everything in 6 days. At the days when this all was said & written people weren't as smart as we are today. Try telling a rudimentary human that God made everything in the course of hundreds of hundreds of million of years, if that human knew only of today & yesterday. So, they had the excellent idea of naming geological eras as days.
This is the education that Orthodoxians receive. From what I see, it's completely different from most Catholics. Oh, those catholics that have heard of orthodoxians.