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Post by snow on Jul 30, 2015 14:39:26 GMT -5
Maybe that's the difference. I have a whole different target!! I would imagine that's true, although I'm not following an example but rather a teaching about my heart. I think I just follow what feels right in the moment. Sometimes it changes given the circumstances. I don't feel like I have any real target. It's more an ongoing process of choices in the moment that leads who knows where. I more or less just journey along, making mistakes sometimes, but not really with a rigid goal. I have found that life sometimes gets in the way of goals and so you need to recalculate and set a new destination. It's pretty hard to 'sin' if you don't really have someone that judges you. That's likely why the idea of a judgmental God really didn't work for me overall. When I was a child my parents set out a bunch of rules that needed to be adhered to. When I grew up I decided which ones I would keep as guidelines and I now take responsibility for my errors etc. I guess I view the belief in a God as a lifelong parent so that I never really grow up and make my own guidelines, push the boundaries to see what I can do etc. and I take complete responsibility for my less than stellar mistakes. The only real rule I have given myself is to try and do no harm.
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Post by snow on Jul 30, 2015 14:42:24 GMT -5
Maybe that's the difference. I have a whole different target!! Or, perhaps you do not feel the need of having a target to control/monitor your actions so you are without sin. Pretty much. I just don't view mistakes or errors in judgement sometimes as sinful. They are what they are and I can take full responsibility for them and learn from them hopefully. But nothing I do reflects me doing something for a life beyond the one I'm living.
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