| A sudden change in perception. | | | | was I) that their religion is the correct one, the |
| A sudden change in point of view. | | | | true one. And what was the detemining factor for |
| A sudden change in how you see things. | | | | which religon you believed to be true? Where you |
| Nothing is separate. The entire universe, including | | | | were born. |
| you and I, are in reality pure energy. It is through | | | | So I had to ask myself, was my faith inflenced |
| our thoughts that we transform this energy into | | | | by my upbringing? By my location and the |
| what we percieve to be reality. Our thoughts | | | | customs of where I was born. I couldn't deny |
| create the world we live in. | | | | that was probably true. Not to mention I also |
| We have always thought the outer world is more | | | | learned about memes (a cultural equivalent of a |
| real than the inner world. But the opposite is true. | | | | gene, in which ideas are passed from one |
| It is what is happening inside us that determines | | | | generation to another, but that's another story). |
| what is going to happen outside us. We create | | | | The clincher for me actually came from the Bible |
| our world with our thoughts. | | | | itself. Bible verses such as Isaiah 13:16 in which |
| So is it true? A lot of quantum physics evidence | | | | God commands children and women to be brutally |
| not to mention just reflecting back on the | | | | killed. The more I tought about it the more it |
| unfolding of ones life seems to say it is. So if it is | | | | weighed on my mind. God commanded some |
| true what does that mean for the future of | | | | things that I found revolting. Some things that |
| Christianity? Are the two compatible? If you take | | | | were disgusting and sick. |
| Christianity at its most basic fundamental level | | | | The die hard Christian would argue, "Who are you |
| then the answer has to be- No. No, they are not | | | | to judge God, your creator?" But then I realized I |
| compatible. | | | | wasn't judging just stating facts. |
| Quantum physics in no way denies the existance | | | | Fact one: In the Bible God commanded innocent |
| of God but requires a different interpretation. | | | | women and children to be brutally killed. |
| Christianity proposes the separation of God and | | | | Fact two: I find the killing of women and children |
| man. What we are learing from quantum physics | | | | repulsive. |
| is man and God are not separate but one, | | | | Again here I am not judging, just stating facts - |
| everything is one. | | | | what God commaded and how I felt about it. And |
| So should "believers" in the theories of quantum | | | | that enevitably leads to a third fact. |
| physics follow the pattern of Christians and set | | | | Fact three: I find some things that God has |
| out on a full scale campaign to convert the world | | | | commanded repulsive. |
| to their view? Again I believe the answer is- No. | | | | Unless you don't find the slaughtering of babies |
| Christianity is pointing in the right direction. It does | | | | and women repulsive you have to come to the |
| contain many truths. You could consider it a river | | | | same conclusion. Again we are not judging but |
| leading to a vast ocean. Christians are in the river, | | | | just stating facts. |
| making their way to God the ocean, but do not | | | | The more I thought about it the more it just |
| realize they can go directly to the ocean anytime | | | | weighed heavier and heavier on my mind. I was |
| they want. | | | | serving a God who commanded things I found |
| We also can't deny a lot of good has been done | | | | repulsive. How could I serve a God who did such |
| in the name of Christianity. And let's not forget | | | | things? Add that to the fact that my upbringing |
| the comfort it can bring. My father who was | | | | may actually have influenced my faith. Things |
| diagnosed with cancer has found much comfort in | | | | were really starting to get shaky. |
| his Christian faith. I would never want to deny him | | | | Then I read more and more about quantum |
| of that peace of mind. | | | | physics and I read books on spirituality quite |
| I was in fact a Christian for over half of my life. | | | | different from Christianity. Everything just |
| Then after hearing many of the discoveries of | | | | seemed to fall in place. It was like the things I |
| quantum physics and what they may mean to | | | | read I instinctively already knew. There were no |
| our lives I decided to sit down and do what very | | | | more unexplainable contradictions that I could |
| few Christians have. I decided to evaluate all the | | | | really "never understand until the next life." |
| information I had on both sides and see which | | | | Everything here and now made sense. There was |
| was more convincing to me. To open my mind | | | | also a freedom I had not experienced as a |
| and see if I just may have been wrong all those | | | | Christian. There was no longer the watching eye |
| years. Here was my thought process. | | | | that judged every move I made. There was no |
| First I always had an uneasy feeling in the back of | | | | longer the omnipotent judge that was eventually |
| my mind. Especially when it came to other | | | | going to make the determination of whether I |
| religions. Most Americans and Europeans | | | | spent eternity in paradise or burned in hell. |
| professed Christianity, Middle Eastern countries | | | | And there you have the first significant paradigm |
| professed Islam, and eastern countries professed | | | | shift in my life and to be honest it felt GOOD! |
| Hinduism, Buddhism, etc... | | | | Change how you view the world. |
| Different religions and yet everyone is so sure (as | | | | |