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Old 09-25-2010, 10:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Do LOAers believe in God? If yes, what religion do you belong to?
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Old 09-25-2010, 11:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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do you have to belong to a religion in order to believe in god?
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Old 09-25-2010, 11:17 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Which God?

Zeus? Odin? Thor? Apollo? Shango? Ahura Mazda?
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personally, i dislike the term "god" as it makes me think of organized religion and reminds me of how miserable going to church made me feel.

i do believe that a force or intelligence exists that created the universe, it didn't just happen randomly. i suppose you could call that "god" if you wanted to
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I've had no anthropomorphic conception of God since childhood, and even then "He" wouldn't have quite fit the most familiar Christian mold. Certainly I choose to believe in a transcendent reality - even at my times of greatest doubt I found the alternative view repellent.
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God, source, the entity, zero point it all amounts to the same that there is an omnipotent creator that is all that is and all that isn't.

I am not religious though I believe in Christ consciousness. I just believe he was a far advanced or evolved human at the time. Closer to source than others.
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Old 09-25-2010, 11:40 PM   #7 (permalink)
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LOA is a very wide theory. It extends through all religious sects and all countries over the world.

Most believe in one infinite intelligence that created the physical universe. And that we are all expressions of consciousness experiencing the physical world that we are all connected to.

That's what I've heard a lot of, but not everyone believes that.




LOA is not a religion though. It's a knowledge of universal workings and how we can harness the universe to achieve in the world. You can only achieve limited success by acting with your conscious action alone.

Now when you act while you are in line with the infinite, you reap far more reward than if you were to act with conscious thought alone.
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Old 09-26-2010, 01:43 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I don't believe in God as a being apart from us. Most of people in my social enviroment who are believers think of God as a not very defined being. Sometimes anthropomorphic, other times as a kind of energy. But always an unique autonomous entity.

I have my own theory about God in Christianity and other theistic religions but many people think I'm nuts
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I am god believer but spiritual. I have no religion. I don't like to be bounded by those all limits and love to god with full heart. I think, most of loa creators do believe in god because it helps you to see the big picture sometimes you miss.
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Old 09-26-2010, 08:21 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I believe in God... I used to go to a Baptist church with my mom... I used to go to a Christian summer camp... But now that I know about the LOA, I've melded my belief of that with Christianity. Though I prob'ly don't really consider myself Christian. Some Christian beliefs I don't believe in... They believe witchcraft is "the devil". Unless it specifically summons Satan; which all witchcraft doesn't; then it is essentially just a form of using the LOA. And I don't agree with the Christain beliefs that Astrology and bisexuality or homosexuality are that of the devil. And I'm not even sure if I should take all of the Bible's parables literally.

I do pray to God and Jesus, but I feel weird saying The Lord's Prayer, because I do it with reluctance, but I feel like I have to say it at the beginning of every prayer... But with LOA, you don't "HAVE" to do anything you don't want to. So if praying to God is like using the LOA, I don't know why I feel like I'd be upsetting god if I didn't pray a certain way.... =&

And then also, LOA could be used for anything you want to use it for... whether it involves something sexual, or gaining material things that you don't actually "need", or wishing for something that may be "selfish" or "vain".... But when praying to a Christian God, I feel guilty even thinking about asking Him for those things. So I'm trying to change my perspective of "God"... to a non-gendered energy whom I can ask for anything without limits.

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Old 09-26-2010, 08:46 PM   #11 (permalink)
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God created the LOA. I believe totally in the Law of Attraction and yet I also believe totally in God. I am however not religious and although brought up as a Catholic, I no longer am interested in organized religion. Having said that I am quite grateful for all that I learned from the Catholic doctrines, I've just simply moved on.

To me God is the source of all that is and the Law of Attraction is a system put in place to help "run" the universe in an efficient way. I believe that there are probably lots of other laws, just not too sure what they are. Can only speculate.

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Old 09-26-2010, 11:09 PM   #12 (permalink)
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LOA is the secular God. Since everything now is secularized anyways
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I do not believe in God.
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I do not believe in God either.
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Do LOAers believe in God? If yes, what religion do you belong to?
I believe in God, but I hate to use that word because people have concepts attached to it. I believe in God, but probably not the God that anyone who is reading this comment is thinking of at this moment.

I believe in OEOEOEEEEEAAAEAEAE. How about that?
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LoA is all over the bible.

"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours"

"Ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

That's exactly what prayer is. The movement of form through spirit.

"The Secret" just chose to call "God" "The Universe," which is more scientifically accurate.

God is Energy. God is the totality of everything in this universe.

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And then also, LOA could be used for anything you want to use it for... whether it involves something sexual, or gaining material things that you don't actually "need", or wishing for something that may be "selfish" or "vain".... But when praying to a Christian God, I feel guilty even thinking about asking Him for those things. So I'm trying to change my perspective of "God"... to a non-gendered energy whom I can ask for anything without limits.
This is what drives me nuts about Christianity. I'm not against the idea of God, but what people have to realize is that The Bible has been so heavily distorted in order to control people over the years, that's it's not even close to it's original teachings. It tries to make people feel guilty for wanting money, wanting sex, wanting material things, which in reality are great things in our life experience and God wants us to enjoy these things. For example the idea of "Sex is a sin" was created by kings that wanted to sleep with all the women, so that was added to scare men from sleeping with women. Not wanting money was an attempt for leaders to control the flow of finances

If God did indeed create us, don't you think that he'd want us to have as much fun and pleasure as humanly possible? If God was unconditionally loving do you think he'd really care what you do? "God" or "Source" just wants us to be happy. It's man that came up with all these rules that people feel the need to follow.

YouTube - Abraham Hicks - On God (NEW)

YouTube - Abraham: SATAN AND SANTA - Esther & Jerry Hicks

YouTube - Abraham Hicks - Jesus, Bible And Religion - Part 1

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If God and LOA's universe energy is the same thing, why is what you can do through God limited.. (or "limited") ...? =o ... But not with LOA
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How do you figure that? Just because you don't get what you think you want doesn't mean you don't get what you need to get.
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If God and LOA's universe energy is the same thing, why is what you can do through God limited.. (or "limited") ...? =o ... But not with LOA
It's not

Alright, before I go on, just trust me that I'm not trying to step on anyone's belief system here. I promise that much. I just realize that a lot of people that follow religions are suffering intensely from guilts about natural desires (sex, money whatever,) and it's my intention to free you from those guilts. I'm not trying to lead anyone astray from their religions, but I have been studying theology for a while now and it's to the point where I know the truths. Like no doubt in my mind.

Jesus, The Buddha, Mohammad, Krishna all arose from the simple question: "How can I be happy" From that question arose the same answers but using different language. For example Christianity calls it "The Kingdom of Heaven within" Buddhism calls is "Nirvana" or "Enlightenment." But every religion that stood the test of time had their own version of pure joy and oneness with their creator. These teachers also all taught us that we create our own reality with our thoughts.

If you're referring to the comments in the Bible that say "Ask for it in prayer and if it is God's will" etc etc? I mean one of the big points I'm trying to make is that fine, Jesus lived, and he was a great teacher. But now you have other people looking from the outside writing stories about him that were not historically accurate. If Jesus were here today the first thing he would say would be "Holy s***, you guys f***ed this all up, that's not what I meant at all." I mean, the Bible is 2000 years old. It's like when you tell a friend something, then he tells a friend something, then she tells a friend something, the message is so distorted from it's original message that it's not even close. Now imagine 2000 years of that while trying to translate into every language on the planet, which are incompatible with each other and then having people add stuff in order to control the people around them. I mean, I don't understand how people who follow religious doctrines don't go completely insane.

"You can do this, You can't do that, you can do this on a friday"

I swear to God if you got on your knells and prayed to God for some hardcore rough sex LoA style "God" would deliver that right on schedule (assuming you know how to manifest s***.) All these subjective views on morality were all added by man. If you want a bag full of money, God wants you to have a bag full of money. If you want to eat pork on a Friday, God wants you to have a big f***ing plate of bacon. If you love someone you want them to be happy, and since God is unconditional love he's not going to tell you what you're allowed to be happy with or not.

If you want an uncluttered view on spirituality like you were saying listen to some Bashar or Abraham-Hicks. I promise those videos I posted will really resonate with you (you'll just feel that they're right.)

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