Comments on: Faith or fear? http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear Metaphysical Musings from Ron & Susan Scolastico Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: anakin http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-160 anakin Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:04:09 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-160 One has faith in God when there is no experience of God. Otherwise one would Know God. One has faith in God when there is no experience of God. Otherwise one would Know God.

]]> By: anakin http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-159 anakin Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:56:15 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-159 Faith is what you have when nothing else works... Faith is what you have when nothing else works…

]]> By: Jim Prudden http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-158 Jim Prudden Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:22:43 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-158 Thank you Jill, Adrianne and Maria for your intuitive thoughts which resonate with me and aid in my experience in this life. I've been thinking about faith lately and come to realize that to be totally committed to a faith can be comforting although limiting as to all the possibilities of God's creation. Faith can be blinding to all the layers and dimensions that are there for us to experience when we are ready and able to experience them. Without the experience of God's love and binding influence faith must be based on fear and when people make decisions from a fear based faith the results can be devastating although possibly good intentioned. I'm working on bringing more experiences of God's love into this life and the Guides are a great affirmation to me of this love. Thank you Jill, Adrianne and Maria for your intuitive thoughts which resonate with me and aid in my experience in this life.

I’ve been thinking about faith lately and come to realize that to be totally committed to a faith can be comforting although limiting as to all the possibilities of God’s creation. Faith can be blinding to all the layers and dimensions that are there for us to experience when we are ready and able to experience them. Without the experience of God’s love and binding influence faith must be based on fear and when people make decisions from a fear based faith the results can be devastating although possibly good intentioned. I’m working on bringing more experiences of God’s love into this life and the Guides are a great affirmation to me of this love.

]]> By: Susanna McGrath http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-157 Susanna McGrath Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:24:18 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-157 I believe there is a reference in "Doorway to the Soul" that cautions about the distortions that can get in the way of our soul's communications to us. How communiction from the guides is filtered through our own personal consciousness and it is good to be cautious and as they say in the medical field, get a second opinion! For me that still small voice is a subtle art that takes practice, practice, practice. I believe there is a reference in “Doorway to the Soul” that cautions about the distortions that can get in the way of our soul’s communications to us. How communiction from the guides is filtered through our own personal consciousness and it is good to be cautious and as they say in the medical field, get a second opinion! For me that still small voice is a subtle art that takes practice, practice, practice.

]]> By: Maria E. Vanegas http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-156 Maria E. Vanegas Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:19:41 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-156 Faith is one of those words that have different meanings to different people. For many people Faith implies believing in "something" . It means you have accepted someone else's idea or statement as true regardless of whether you have experienced it or not. The Guides have taught us that we should find our own truth. We do not need to believe or have faith, we need to experience life and know that we are more than this "reality". Then our knowing becomes our trust and our experience is always based on love and understanding. Faith is one of those words that have different meanings to different people. For many people Faith implies believing in “something” . It means you have accepted someone else’s idea or statement as true regardless of whether you have experienced it or not. The Guides have taught us that we should find our own truth. We do not need to believe or have faith, we need to experience life and know that we are more than this “reality”. Then our knowing becomes our trust and our experience is always based on love and understanding.

]]> By: David Pierce http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-155 David Pierce Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:56:47 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-155 I can imagine a positive slant to this example, where a person already grounded in the Guides' teaching that we are souls temporarily in possession of bodies, feels an inner knowing (from their soul or from "God") that what is best for their body is not what the doctors are doing - whether the shift should be to something more aggressive as in this example, or (perhaps more commonly) to something alternative, or wanting to be left in peace. All could be skillful means for this life and this body, and if our choice hastens our making of death - wouldn't that simply be what our soul wants? I can imagine a positive slant to this example, where a person already grounded in the Guides’ teaching that we are souls temporarily in possession of bodies, feels an inner knowing (from their soul or from “God”) that what is best for their body is not what the doctors are doing - whether the shift should be to something more aggressive as in this example, or (perhaps more commonly) to something alternative, or wanting to be left in peace. All could be skillful means for this life and this body, and if our choice hastens our making of death - wouldn’t that simply be what our soul wants?

]]> By: Greg http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-154 Greg Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:58:16 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-154 Great post!! SOOOOO true. Thank you! ~ Greg Great post!! SOOOOO true. Thank you!

~ Greg

]]> By: David Magnan http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-153 David Magnan Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:17:57 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-153 An interesting story, but I think the reporter got it wrong, as far as generalizing about the case. Most commonly it is the fear of annihilation (caused by lack of any belief in survival and of any faith in God) that induces both doctors and patients to accept extraordinary and cruel medical interventions to prolong life at any cost. These are the effects of rampant materialism. An interesting story, but I think the reporter got it wrong, as far as generalizing about the case. Most commonly it is the fear of annihilation (caused by lack of any belief in survival and of any faith in God) that induces both doctors and patients to accept extraordinary and cruel medical interventions to prolong life at any cost. These are the effects of rampant materialism.

]]> By: Adrienne Gabriel http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-151 Adrienne Gabriel Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:28:37 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-151 For me, faith means believing in something with your heart, accepting what is, and letting go of any attachments or expectations forthe outcome. For me, faith means believing in something with your heart, accepting what is, and letting go of any attachments or expectations forthe outcome.

]]> By: jill silverstein http://ronscolastico.com/blog/faith-or-fear#comment-150 jill silverstein Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:43:29 +0000 http://ronscolastico.com/blog/?p=113#comment-150 What a wonderful post to read...since most of us are aging and experiencing pains and disease symptoms. Also the remembering of Ron's words from the Guides ...on how to free us from the shackles of (fear based) religions of the world.... as Bill Mahers' movie has demonstrated so very well!! The Thumbnail sketch of life and death was a wonderful remembering tool also... a connection daily will help us evolve into the enlightened people we want to really be. What a wonderful post to read…since most of us are aging and experiencing pains and disease symptoms. Also the remembering of Ron’s words from the Guides …on how to free us from the shackles of (fear based) religions of the world…. as Bill Mahers’ movie has demonstrated so very well!! The Thumbnail sketch of life and death was a wonderful remembering tool also… a connection daily will help us evolve into the enlightened people we want to really be.

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