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Originally Posted by idi banashapan
Do the things you enjoy, be kind, inquisitive and mindful, don't hurt others. It's all pretty simple.
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If you’re nothing more than a bag of self-aware chemistry, how do you arrive at moral imperatives like these? Genuinely curious.
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Originally Posted by Dude111
Do you know where your life is going? Do ya think that you were put on this earth for other things?
Do you ever wonder if this is the right job,or if God has another direction for you?
All I can do is think I must have done something really aweful in the universe to be put on this hell hole.......
In my opinion things started going downhill in the 90s......
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I’m a Christian in full-time pastoral ministry and convinced I am fulfilling a divine calling. Because of that, I know in general terms where my life is going but I wouldn’t be so arrogant as to claim to be sure I’m not on Earth for other things. There are aspects of my ministry I will mess up in some way, and there are aspects of my future life I as yet know nothing about. Even within my calling in its narrowest sense (run a church, look after people, and above all preach the good news of Jesus) there’s an immense amount of detail missing.
God’s direction for me beyond the next few years is his business. Until I know otherwise I plan to serve him as I’ve been trained to until I retire, which is less than 20 years from now. But that could change.
Incidentally I don’t know how you conceive of ‘God’ but if you mean in the Judeo-Christian sense then you emphatically weren’t put here because of some past-life evil. There is no concept of a wheel of reincarnation in any of the mainstream Abrahamic religions or their derivatives.
As for the 90s, well that’s when religion ceased to be religion to me, and became a living faith in a living saviour. So I disagree on that point. My life took a different and far better path from then.